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Affichage des articles du août 15, 2012

THINKING, EXPRESSING AND SEEING MORE

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I am reading a fascinating book. Wassily Kandinsky «Du Spirituel dans l’Art et dans la Peinture en particulier» . It took me quite some time to find that the book had been translated into English - «Concerning the Spiritual in Art» - I certainly recommend it to those of you who are interested in abstraction and in a certain respect, philosophical concepts on colour, form, music and abstraction. I most certainly am.To read further, try.... http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/phil%20of%20art/kandinskytext.htm There are many comments concerncing the book in English, French, German... I don't entirely agree with those who feel that art cannot be expressed in words.  I am not an artist but do feel that if you relate to art in any way, some words need to be found to describe feelings. Doesn’t an artist have to express how his art works and isn’t there a spirituality in such an expression? Kandinsky’s description of colour, shapes, abstraction and many of this related to art or arti