The Sensual Kandinsky
The semester’s over, TG. My fingers are dreading the feel of a keyboard. Yet I want to do nothing more now than write about Kandinsky.
You can take refuge in Kandinsky in the orange moments of a Bombay sunset,or a pink Calcutta winter dawn. Or an ochre Arizona mid-day. When you look too long at a Kandinsky creation, emotions blot away. You only feel colours.
Thus I feel green-content,yellow enraptured, or brick-red turned on while savouring a Kandinsky, running my eyes up and down the painting, tasting colour and madness. I occasionally feel violet-confused.
Small Pleasures, Autumn in Bavaria, Improvisation VII, Composition X, Yellow, Red and Blue…..not terribly clever or arty names for paintings, but again what they represent are beyond conventional art criticism either. They defy description. Language as a shared system of symbols begin to lose significance in the Kandinskian context. You have to evolve your own symbols, place his art in your own interpretive space, surrender and lose yourself in the mad or gentle riot of colours, flurry of shapes and sensual possibilities.
Kandinsky(1866-1944), the abstract painter, the impressionist (expressionist?) the intellectual, the creator ….nah, almost as difficult to describe the painter, as describing his work. Wikipedia has done a good job of that (oh yes it occasionally does have good posts).
I cannot help but wonder about each of his paintings, and the story it might be trying to tell. What was the artist going through while creating Composition VII? What was he feeling, contemplating,calculating? How did his eyes look? How did his hands move? Impossible that a professor of law and economics represented such unfettered passion and mad joy on canvas.
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That is Kandinsky. He’ll never stop making you wonder. He will make your mind form a lot of questions then wash away those questions in a sudden torrent of nameless psychedelic beauty.
Very well put. I am continually inspired and admire Kandinsky.
Amazingly great post. Thank you. Wassily Kandinsky is inspiring me this research session. I just learned MIA has one looted from Nazis!
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It is indeed amazing how music infuses a fourth dimension into all our work, whether it is painting or other forms of art.
You only feel colours.
… I love these words.
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Blog de Luniere » Streams of Colour said this on March 5, 2009 at 10:02 pm