THERE IS NO 'MUST' IN ART BECAUSE ART IS FREE - Wassily Kandinsky
One of the goals of the Blaue Reiter to which Kandinsky was a prominent
member was the use of art for spiritual expression. I wonder what that word
'freedom' meant to a Russian at the turn of the 20th century - in relation to
what it means to Americans at the turn of the 21st, here in a country founded
on that idea.
Kandinsky wrote in "The Spiritual in Art" about the laws of color - how colors
behave in relation to each other in art, having studied the works of Steiner
and Colert, some physics. So his freedom didn't mean that the 'laws' of art
were not there - but that something beyond that, the spiritual, allowed this
action to be perceived as a Whole, from another level, where we approach
that 'mysterious' ingredient that makes art a Unity beyond its parts.
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