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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

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Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. Kandinsky's provocative thoughts on color theory and the nature of art. Analysis of Picasso, Matisse, and earlier masters. 12 illustrations.

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Published June 1st 1977 by Dover Publications (first published 1911)

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Jan 22, 2013 Matt rated it 4 of 5 stars

I hit my artistic peak with my rendering of my uncle’s Conan the Barbarian upper arm tattoo (complete with blood splatter) when I was eight. Truly appreciating art always seemed like the province of finer souls. A secret protected on par with gypsy divination and Shamrock shakes. I guess I always thought art was beyond words. Kandinsky, in his brief book, proves otherwise. Incredibly lucid and articulate, Kandinsky leads the reader to move past an intellectual appreciation of art:

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Mar 22, 2010 Ben rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: art, philosophy, religion

Kandinsky’s manifesto calls for the visionaries of the art world, unable to be appreciated in their own time, to lead the progression of mankind from the material dependence on nature towards the inner depths of the soul. But these visionaries are oblivious to any awareness of this; they simply create art, almost unconsciously. The manifesto is for those who are able to understand, lower than the visionaries, but higher than the rest. These are the people who fear for what art is, what it may be...more

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Mar 06, 2013 Laura Cowan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Stunning in its foresight. This book soothed some of the frustration I have developed with people's inability to understand what I am trying to do with my writing, not necessarily due to its failure to convey its inner purpose (though of course there is some of that) but rather due to some people's inability to think for themselves and get past buzzwords to really explore the nature of things with me. Kandinsky really lays out the structure of spiritual development and the ways that artists stan...more

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Nov 09, 2011 Ben rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a fantastic book. Kandinsky's ideas on art and its ultimate goal are nothing short of inspirational.
No matter what area of art you enjoy, whether it be music, painting or even writing; this book is completely relevant. He is an artist who is completely "in tune" with all aspects of creativity. His way of explaining, though quite poetic and grandoise at times, is very clear to read and understand. He's not just a great painter, but a captivating writer who really has a way with words. Th...more

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Jun 23, 2009 P. Timothy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this in anticipation of possibly leading a class on Spirituality and Art...and as a primer of sorts on the early thoughts about the connection between Spirituality and the Arts, especially connected with Modern art into abstraction. Some of his thoughts are brilliian and prescient; some really are parallel to Dewey, James and the like philosophers, along with Dr. Albert Barnes, and some of it comes off as purely bunkish guesses...but that is the issue with ground-breaking writing and thou...more

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Jul 29, 2012 Zachary rated it 3 of 5 stars

Whacked out theory about shapes favoring specific colors, colors and shapes having specific meaning (outside the painting) and a lot of references to music, which is appropriate and helps back him up as it can be wordless and completely abstract yet beautiful. I think he is trying to quantify elements of visual art and make them them key, note, tempo, etc. It's interesting to read his ides and see how they are applied in his paintings but it does not have the universal significance he seems to h...more

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Aug 25, 2012 Bill rated it 3 of 5 stars

In some ways I enjoyed the two rather lengthy introductions to the book (not by Kandinsky himself) -- which put his career and ideas in a historical perspective -- more than the book itself. I read the following review from an Amazon reader. I agree with most of it, and he brings out some of the more important points Kandinsky offers in his book. I especially like this insight from the reviewer: "His spirituality is not an incarnational one, where the Spirit interpenetrates and quickens matter,...more

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Aug 17, 2012 M.P. Nicholaou rated it 4 of 5 stars

Kandinsky was a master of his Art, there is no doubt in my mind of that. He is also an accomplished writer, who expresses his theory of Art very well. However, he is trying to put into words a visual medium and I'm not sure that can work. It is very nearly impossible to express the visual language into the literary. Forgive me using an old cliché, "a picture paints a thousand words" that comes to mind and is very apt for this.

Just as it is virtually impossible to describe how art works in words...more Kandinsky was a master of his Art, there is no doubt in my mind of that. He is also an accomplished writer, who expresses his theory of Art very well. However, he is trying to put into words a visual medium and I'm not sure that can work. It is very nearly impossible to express the visual language into the literary. Forgive me using an old cliché, "a picture paints a thousand words" that comes to mind and is very apt for this.

Just as it is virtually impossible to describe how art works in words, it is equally as impossible to describe and express in words how the spiritual works in art too. I use the word 'impossible' not in the literal sense of the word, more in the sense that words are inadequate to do this. Not that it is literally impossible, as some people might assume I mean, because it is not hard to use words to express yourself on any subject. It is only that in my opinion, I think that any amount of words would not come close to adequately describing the spiritual.

That is not to say that an artist can't talk or write about art, because many have expressed how art works in words and it is very interesting to hear or read their views. What I'm trying to say is that although very interesting, this is very limited and ultimately unsatisfying. It almost goes without saying that looking at and experiencing an artists work is infinitely more rewarding and ultimately says more than any amount of explanation.

That said, Kandinsky put forth in words his manifesto for the future of art as a spiritual theory of abstract form and colour. He does foresee the abandonment of the material in Art; the purely representational and outer form and colour, for the spiritual and purely inner abstract expression of form and colour.

As an artist myself, I left off reading this for most of my life so that I could read it with a more experienced and wiser mind. To me, Kandinsky was a revolutionary artist who could see clearly in his mind the art of the future. He was to a large extent right about that. But as I said earlier, this is best expressed in the visual medium rather than the very wordy and inadequate literary medium.

I suppose that a manifesto was something that was needed at the time, but something which has since been abandoned because it is no longer useful. At the time, a new direction was needed and was taking shape. Kandinsky may have felt that putting this into words would help some to understand the new art that was emerging. However, I don't think it was needed. After all, as was alluded to in the text of the manifesto itself,the spiritual is something which will be felt and not necessarily understood. (less)

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Oct 15, 2010 Ellis rated it 4 of 5 stars

Picked this short treatise up used for cheap. Kandinsky has a lot of very interesting ideas about the relation of art and music and poetry, with some discussion of social status/interpersonal relationships (just a dash). He is a modernist through and through. The introduction is enough to get you excited to read it and I just love his description about what art is and ought to be. Dense and could be a better translation, I think. Takes some concentration to understand it all and follow the metap...more

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Jul 19, 2012 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, art, books-i-own, biographical, modernism, non-fiction

I'm finally getting around to reading Wassily Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art. In it, the artist explains his plans for the ascent of spiritually fulfilling and expressive art that surpasses mere replication of natural form. This is not to say that Kandinsky is in favor of pure abstraction. He faults cubism as too intellectual and spiritually lacking, as opposed to inspired abstractions.
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Apr 01, 2009 Ridgely rated it 2 of 5 stars

What saves this book is superlative phrase-turning and humor, intended or otherwise. If you've ever been tempted to bronze your subjective aesthetic and mount it in the museum between philosophy and science, this will be there to remind you how nearly impossible it is to pull off. Kandinsky couldn't do it and neither can you. I mean he sets forth to launch a theory of color analogized to harmonics, but what really comes through is an abiding disdain for yellow, coupled with a love letter to blue...more What saves this book is superlative phrase-turning and humor, intended or otherwise. If you've ever been tempted to bronze your subjective aesthetic and mount it in the museum between philosophy and science, this will be there to remind you how nearly impossible it is to pull off. Kandinsky couldn't do it and neither can you. I mean he sets forth to launch a theory of color analogized to harmonics, but what really comes through is an abiding disdain for yellow, coupled with a love letter to blue. His statement of artistic intent- you gotta pat him on the back for that idealistic "whoosh"- appears equally specious. It's not that he's lying. It's just that his sleight of hand skills are pretty amateur so the part where he goes "oh so my plan includes this, this, and that, from this day forward" comes across pretty nakedly as a review of past and current work. It reminds me of having to write artist statements. These are a bitch, which is my thoroughly unscientific perspective. They are a bitch because they are more often than not worded as a request for a statement of artistic intent. Last I checked, "I'm going to pick up this brush and paint until I get lost, and paint some more until I come out the other side. Motherfucker." rarely cuts it. Because that doesn't really translate into anything but maximum snark - it's sort of like getting spattered with paint for asking "what are you doing?" The thing is, that statement is absolutely honest, it just doesn't make sense in any language outside the living craft of painting, and so to write a statement, I have to open the door to that compact structure of dream logic, walk outside, and look in the window and describe what I see. This, however, is not the same thing as writing a grocery list, even if it's written on paper covered with vegetables, as a bullet-list. All I can do is write what I see. I can't predict where process will take me, the most I can do is make preparatory drawings as points of departure. Maybe Kandinsky was a precog. His enthusiasm for the path away from representation, for the synthesis of the arts, for advances of the spirit through science likely conflated observable trends in his existing body of work with future intent. And it's not just a little heart-breaking (but funny, always funny) to encounter his One True Quest towards pure expression conveyed upon such muddy waters.(less)

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Spacemummy The best way I've found to write a statement of intent is to make up some shit about Egypt.
Apr 02, 2009 08:34am

Brandon This humor you mean must be laughing at Kandinsky because while I found the essay interesting, nowhere did I find it deliberately comical. I think it'...more This humor you mean must be laughing at Kandinsky because while I found the essay interesting, nowhere did I find it deliberately comical. I think it's curious that you object so passionately to Kandinsky's attempt to articulate his working motives when it clearly demonstrates a challenge you seem to struggle with as an artist (based solely on your response, so be it a superficial inference). Moreover, I reject that unification between far-flung disciplines is impossible. Artists now have more to learn from fields like science and math than they do from their own familiar territory. I reject more your cynical resignation, "why even try?" This attempt was not without significant flaws, but it did something few artists ever do explicitly which is to rationally examine methods for creative exploration, consider the consequences and substantiate their importance to the progress of art.

It's too easy to decide you owe nothing to your spectators in the way of annotation. To you, your art may speak well enough for itself, but seriously, why do you do it? Why do you do it? What is your point? If you can't somehow answer that and answer it well, then you're playing with paint, and it's nice to have a hobby. If you think what you're doing is important, then you should understand it well enough, from a disinterested and critical perspective to justify that convincingly. You should be as keen a critic as you are deft a painter. Why would a fine writer like you not want to think verbally about how you work visually?

The Spanish abstract-expressionist painter, Antonio Saura commented on the necessity in abstraction for "...structural support for action in order not to lose oneself, not to be engulfed in uncontrolled pictorial activity where chaos and lack of moderation annul affirmation..." a working principle I agree with. It doesn't prohibit improvisation and acting on pure impulse. It just requires there be a guiding reason for doing so - that action be grounded in real meaning.

Kandinsky was trying to anchor his work with a sort of manifesto. It was not a successful work of art criticism. We knew this going into it. It was, however, a cogent justification for something radically unconventional at the time. It's one thing to want to paint. It's a better thing to make yourself accountable to those you expect to appreciate your work. That's at least one distinction between an amateur and an artist.(less)
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Feb 02, 2008 Michael Franklin rated it 3 of 5 stars

kandinsky's respondeo ut the world of art, in his time, to the past, and for the future of art is widely considered one of the greatest documents on art by an artist. sure, i'll accept that. however, i believe this is more of an assault on the condition of the human spirit than a treatise on the state of art.

kandinsky reiterates, many times, his disgust for the broad acceptance of and reverence towards "stagnate art". as an artist himself, he is quite aware of the vast differences between what t...more kandinsky's respondeo ut the world of art, in his time, to the past, and for the future of art is widely considered one of the greatest documents on art by an artist. sure, i'll accept that. however, i believe this is more of an assault on the condition of the human spirit than a treatise on the state of art.

kandinsky reiterates, many times, his disgust for the broad acceptance of and reverence towards "stagnate art". as an artist himself, he is quite aware of the vast differences between what the critics and buyers are going in for, and what the artists are doing. he lays out, quite brutally, his own foundation of the future of art. making claims that, the future will hold an art that is un-seeable to the eye, but glaring to the soul. it will have to consist then, of images from within, not without the human field of perception. he is calling for the abandonment of the recognizable, often cliche materialism that academic art of his time heralded as high.

there is nothing lower than a bland reproduction of a bland person in a bland setting. according to kandinsky. this was 191o, and was thus the manual for abstraction that would spawn an art movement that has shaken everything the art world made for thousands of years before it, to it's very core.

kandinsky battles the dominant paradigm of art theory that art should reflect nature, thereby being a discourse with our natural life and thus the voice of divinity. he argues that only true art, free from external form, can be divined and relate to the world, in fact more than that, help the world to progress into a truly spiritual world. he sites many contemporary poets, painters and philosophers, including mme. blavastky philosophy, though she merely developed an idea based upon , credited by hitler as the mother of the aryanhindu teachings she picked while in india. kandisnky is clearly a very well educated and passionate man, albeit angry as all hell.

he seems to, at times, get lost in his own poetic symbolism and dive off of cliffs that are too hard to climb back to. (how was that for poetic irony) he has a chapter called the movement of the triangle, in which he forms a triangle based upon levels of spiritual growth. what is it with metaphysical writers that makes them use obscure geometric charts to illustrate an idea. see ken wilbur if you are not sure what i mean. the chapter wraps up nicely and he makes some very clear points, but the beginning is very slow going and clogged with imagery too complex for his simple implication. he seems to focus on the art that is not spiritual, trying to show by absence the art that is. he sites many styles and trends in art at the time that seem to portray stillborn representations of human life. art, in his and my eye, is to relate the human condition to the future generations that they may understand where we lived. this book is just shy of one hundred years old, and still it is valid in modern conversation.

where wassily had impressionists, we have pop, where he had vase on table with fruit, we have a fucking dead tiger shark in formaldehyde. does the art of today really reflect our universal subconscious. will a fifty million dollar, diamond encrusted skull save the soul of anyone tomorrow, or today for that matter, and still this is what we know as our contemporaries. sure we have our jenny savilles,who is a mind staggering painter, and let us not overlook them, god forbid we let another van gogh slip away. but the damien hirsts are killing me. now, just today i hear about marla olmstead, the four year old abstract expressionist prodigy, whose work is compared to pollock, and dekooning.

marla is all the buzz right now. a four year old whose father is paints, has the spotlight as genius of painting. is this art? is it commodity? nit sch? what do i know. i do know some of the stuff of hers is very cool, and most likely, if seen by unwitting eyes, would be hailed as great work by one who truly suffered and now understands life with color. not sure what i think about that, just an interesting topic right now. what would wassily say? i am sure a part of him would see the beauty and innocence and then the spiritual side of her pictures. but the purist in him would denounce her "work" as simply the play thing of a child, which it is.

all in all, the book really is refreshing in that is a statement of sincerity about art. it is rare that we read a book about art theory that as actually written by an artist. most are like parenting books written by childless doctors. this, however is the real deal. kandinsky is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, also one of the most prolific writers on art. the book is not finely tuned, but it's rawness is it's energy.

note kandisnky's influence on contemporaries such as chuck close, who is famed for super-realism, or photo-realism, which completely disembarks from the course set by kandinsky himself. oh the ways we dig our graves and how we praise the soil!
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Apr 24, 2008 Roger added it Recommends it for: artists

Kandinski's path from object-oriented art to the abstract is one which he begins to see an underlying spirituality to the shapes and color beneath the hills, buildings, and humanity he has captured on his canvas. In time the background is brought forward and fused into the foreground. He seeks a higher plain to effect the onlooker. His desire is to "send light into the darkness of men's hearts" quote by Schumann.

It is not "art for art's sake". What drives one to create great art should not merel...more

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Mar 04, 2013 Hareton Linton rated it 5 of 5 stars

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ძალიან საინტერესო ნაშრომია, შთაბეჭდილებებით სავსე ვარ.

"ღია ლურჯი ფლეიტას ჰგავს, მუქი ჩელოს, კიდევ უფრო მუქი კონტრაბასის არაჩვეულებრივ ჟღერას; უფრო ღრმა, საზეიმო ფორმაში ლურჯის ჟღერადობა ორღანისას შეიძლება შევადაროთ".

"ხელოვნებაში თეორია არასდროს უსწრებს პრაქტიკას, არამედ პირიქით".

"არანაირი "უნდა" არ არსებობს ხელოვნებაში, რომელიც მუდამ თავისუფალია. ხელოვნება გაურბის "უნდას"-ს, როგორც დღე გაურბის ღამეს".

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Jun 03, 2012 Cameron rated it 3 of 5 stars

A powerful, lucid manifesto by Kandinsky, the famous Russian Expressionist, calling for the artist to proceed inward to cultivate the abstract expressions of the inner spirit and away from material representation. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that in addition to his obvious mastery as a painter, Kandinsky was also an accomplished and logical writer.

"The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning"

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Jul 06, 2007 Brandon rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The first section is an inspiring interpretation of invention, experimentation and critical progress in aesthetics. Uses his contemporaries as examples on specific points, but does't limit the call to arms for spiritual revolution to his particular place in art history. Just as interesting a work of religious writing as it is an essay on abstraction in art. Criticized for throwing convention out the window without offering sufficient definition of the new direction he seems to be talking about,...more

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May 13, 2012 Matt C rated it 4 of 5 stars

Short, easy read. Some interesting notes on Kandinsky's nontraditional color theory. High entertainment value due to Kandinsky's vocal disdain for modern and decorative art - even though the book was written in the early 20th century, its criticism of art trends are somehow still relevant. I'm docking it 1 star because most of the illustrations, especially the ones illustrating color theory, are reproduced in black and white.

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Apr 24, 2010 Lamadia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This is an easy to read study on the spiritual in art. It is a call for artists to always infuse their work with the spiritual. Kandinsky sets out that artists have duties in this world and that they shouldn't be taken lightly. It was much easier to read than I thought it would be because of the wonderful turns of phrase and slight humor. It doesn't read like most philosophy that sounds like someone was playing the word jumble.

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May 23, 2011 Kevin Brown rated it 2 of 5 stars

I chose to read this book, as I'm looking for books by artists (of any genre, for lack of a better word) to help me think about poetry. I re-read, then taught, Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, so I'm looking for more books like that one. This one didn't do that for me, as it was much too technical in the use of color and form and much too abstract in the way of German neo-Romantics. There were a few quotes that were interesting, but not many.

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May 30, 2012 Jean rated it 4 of 5 stars

Kandinsky was sometimes unclear with his ideas, and seemed to go around in circles. The book demanded close attention to sieve through his incoherent ideas. That being said, there are many gems in his writings, which made it worth reading and understanding. He has very interesting ideas about the relationship between color, music, and geometry, as well as the integration of the arts. Part I of the book dull, but it picks up significantly in part II. It's worth reading.

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Jul 17, 2012 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

A professional artist/teacher friend of mine gave me a copy of Kandinsky's book at a recent workshop she was leading. Consider the long period of the 20th Century during which Kandinsky practiced what he preached as a "Spiritual Revolution" in art. Spiritual Revolution was a popular theme throughout the century. A Baha'i pamphlet with that title was published in the 1970's. Being an activist artist in that revolution now is as important as ever.

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Mar 28, 2012 Pam added it

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I absolutely LOVE art. I like it a bit challenging not just the normal wildly popular stuff, BUT I just can't read about it. I try, but most of the writing seems overly analytical, not visual or emotional like the subject. I have tried to read this book...I have actually read this book, but it doesn't seem to sink in... I guess I will just keep loving art and trying to read about it.

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Mar 19, 2013 Richard Heys added it

A very interesting book, very influential throughout the twentieth century. I found it rather esoteric, fascinating but polemic. I wanted a gloss on many words and meanings. Still an invaluable resource, if rather narrow in its historical relevance. I found many aspects of the book rewarding and inspiring. I draw on the material for my teaching in the history of art and thought.

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Feb 28, 2012 Apryl Anderson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Kandinsky's 'Movement of the Triangle' was precisely the visual I needed to understand this process of the collective conscience going forward, yet circling eternal revelations. Also, I agree with his discussion of the related arts, and I'm surprised that he didn't mention the 'Musica universalis'. As for the color theory, I need to spend some time with that...

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Jan 10, 2010 C. Vau rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Mar 01, 2013 Sherry rated it 4 of 5 stars

If you're interested in expression, inspiration, and the thought processes of an artist, you'll enjoy this. Kandinsky gets pretty metaphorical, but he had a lot to say. Considering this was written early in the 20th century, there is still a lot to hear.

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May 23, 2009 Sian rated it 5 of 5 stars

Craaaaazy shit, but also totally brilliant.

Kandinsky had this condition called synesthesia where he could like, feel and hear colors and all his senses were mixed up. While it is a serious medical condition, it makes for some incredible writing.

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Jun 08, 2010 Christina rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had high hopes but was disappointed in how boring and un-moving this book was. I have never been a huge Kandinsky fan, but as an art lover, appreciate his work. I keep moving from chapter to chapter, waiting to be inspired... but nothing. Boo!

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Feb 16, 2013 Sally Whitman rated it 5 of 5 stars

Essential read - a primary source - for anyone wanting to understand art by Kandinsky or other artists associated with The Blue Rider art movement. Get to know the philosophical underpinnings of the advent of non-objective abstraction.

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Nov 27, 2010 Monique rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I found myself focusing more on Kandinskys metaphorical style of writing than the message he was trying to portray. Fascinating glimpses on color theory and the spiritual art connection. I may read again when I have more time to reflect.

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