REQ: Kandinsky's ideas
Christoph Hollender
Mitch Cooper <mjco...@awinc.com > wrote:
>I wonder if anyone can offer some thoughts on an art paper I'm trying
>to write. It's about Wassily Kandinsky, the father of non-objective
>art.
>I'm trying to find and angle on how successful he was translating his
>spiritual ideas into his paintings. As a member of the utility school
>of art, I'm having a tough time discussing his work without
>criticizing abstract, or indeed, all art.
I suppose that from Kandinsky's own point of view, he more or less
succeeded in translating his spiritual ideas into paintings, though
from most other viewers points of view, he didn't. This being the
nature of spirituality, that it is barely translatable into verbal
expression, and not at all (or almost not at all) into non-coded,
non-symbolic media.
BTW, what is the utility school of art, and why are you a member of it
if it's giving you such a hard time with all art? ;-)
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