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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by Brent Lagerman
Before kids are expected to make their scribbles into figures–before they can even draw a stick figure, they are experimenting with just two things: color and form.
It can take an entire lifetime to get back to those moments of pure joy and wonder an artist experienced as a kid.
Watching blue smash up against yellow.
Repeating black lines.
Forming a blob of color into a shape.
This base level visual communication is profound to a kid, and then, one day, it just isn’t anymore.
Who was he? How did he change the course of visual art?
Wassily Kandinsky was literally the first guy to say ‘this is art’ and have it be something similar to what an innocent child would draw with crayons.
Like everyone else at that time, he was taught how to paint figuratively–how to represent things from the real world with paint.
In 1910, at the top of his game, he decided to take the leap and do something that nobody was doing — Purely abstract visual compositions.
These advanced compositions are like what you’d see a kid do with crayons, they are just WAY more masterful. A pure composition using nothing but form and color painted by a visual master.
Luckily he was a scholarly writer, so we have a lot of his thoughts and theory to learn from. Here are a few awesome excerpts from ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’:
Let’s look at another Composition, the entire work is like a symphony, there’s A LOT going on. but if you enhance… enhance… enhance… you’ll find smaller and smaller movements within the overall composition then finally you get to the single elements of colors and forms acting one another.
Artists back then spent their time learning to be a human camera, so Kandinsky was a little jealous of musicians getting recognition for their spiritual endeavors.
Why not just be a musician?
So there are advantages of making visual art over music. You see it all in a moment. Here lies a lot of it’s power. It can grab your attention and get something across very quickly.
What!? Colors have spiritual values? Why wasn’t I told this in art school?
Turns out, the spiritual values of different colors were nicely laid out for us a hundred years ago–and then promptly forgotten:
Yellow and blue have another movement which affects the first antithesis — an ex-and concentric movement. If two circles are drawn and painted respectively yellow and blue, brief concentration will reveal in the yellow a spreading movement out from the centre, and a noticeable approach to the spectator. The blue, on the other hand, moves in upon itself, like a snail retreating into its shell, and draws away from the spectator.
alright poindexter let’s see that in action:
you could stare at those circles for a while, but i think these examples below do a better job of showing the movement of yellow and blue. On the first figure, the blue added towards the center seems to be cutting into the yellow, deeper and deeper, making it look like a funnel, or falling down a well.
When we gradually add yellow to the center blue on the other hand, it builds upwards towards you, like a cone or a little mountain on top of the blue.
Same two colors, same exact form, yet they produce opposite directions of movement.
It is clear that all I have said of these simple colours is very provisional and general, and so also are those feelings (joy, grief, etc.) which have been quoted as parallels of the colours. For these feelings are only the material expressions of the soul. Shades of colour, like those of sound, are of a much finer texture and awake in the soul emotions too fine to be expressed in words.
wow that was a lot, if you read all this hats off to you, go make yourself a cocktail.
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