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A very interesting book that offers an underground history of abstract art. A spiritual awakening, sharing my sight with others through canvas and paint. Abstract painting 18901985 surveys a great adventure. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read concerning the spiritual in art. Concerning the spiritual in art dover fine art, history. Western art had been, from the renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. It takes inspiration but departs from maurice tuchmans the spiritual in modern art. At a time when a new generation of abstract artists experiences the. To me, kandinsky is the kandinsky from the bauhaus period, when his paintings were dominated by abstract compositions comprising lines, circles, triangles, and bold colours.
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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. But perhaps the greatest meditation on how art serves the soul came more than a century earlier, in 1910, when legendary russian painter and art. Shop for spiritual abstract art from the worlds greatest living artists. He recognizes matisse as the 20th century master of color and picasso as the 20th century master of line but he faults them both for not making the final step toward complete. Encountering the spiritual in contemporary art yale. Concerning the spiritual in art dover fine art, history of art kindle edition by kandinsky, wassily, m.
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Concerning the spiritual in art by wassily kandinsky. Abstract painting 18901985 challenged prevailing formalist histories of modernism by tracing the origins of western abstraction to a confluence of ideas about. While i have no problem with art for arts sake, which a lot of abstract art can appear to be, this book goes into great historical detail about how many of the developments in abstract art actually stemmed from the applied spiritual pursuits of artists, and therefore provides a sort of subject matter for many. All spiritual abstract paintings ship within 48 hours and include a 30day moneyback guarantee.
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