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Posted by @stonefly in Kandinsky, Wassily, Poetry on 05 19th, 2010 | No Comments

In The Wood – by Kandinsky (1912)...

The wood grew denser and denser.  The red trunks thicker and thicker.  The green foliage heavier and heavier.  The air darker and darker.  The brushes more and more profuse.  The toadstools more and more numerous.  In the end one found oneself treading on nothing but toadstools.  The man found...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Kandinsky, Wassily on 08 12th, 2009 | No Comments

The Principle of Internal Necessity...

Kandinsky writes: …It is clear that the harmony of colors can only be based upon the principle of purposefully touching the human soul. ~ On the Spiritual in Art, 1912
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Posted by @stonefly in Kandinsky, Wassily on 03 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Hidden Inner Treasures...

Every artist who buries themself in the hidden inner treasures of their art is one to be envied, a coworker upon the spritual pyramid that will one day reach to heaven. ~ Kandinsky on the Spiritual in Art, 1912
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Posted by @stonefly in Cubism, Kandinsky, Wassily, Picasso, Pablo on 03 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Kandinsky, Picasso & the origin of ...

…Picasso was led on always by the need for self-expression, often driven wildly onward, he throws himself from one external means to another.  If a chasm lies betewen them, Picasso makes a wild leap, and there he is, standing on the other side, much to the horror of his incredibly numerous followers. ...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Expression in Art, Form, Kandinsky, Wassily, Matisse, Henri on 03 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Cézanne & Matisse: Painters of Pi...

Cézanne, the seeker after new laws of form…He knows how to create a living being out of a teacup — or rather, how to recognize such a being within this cup. He can raise “still-life” to a level where externally “dead” objects come internally alive. He treats these...
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Posted by @stonefly in Beauty, Kandinsky, Wassily, Schoenberg, Arnold on 03 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Kandinsky on Arnold Schoenberg...

The Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg, with his total renunciation of accepted beauty, regarding as sacred every means that serves the purpose of self-expression, goes his lonely way unrecognised, even today, by all but a few enthusiasts.  This “publicity seeker,” “charlatan”...
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Posted by @stonefly in Kandinsky, Wassily, Words on 02 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Kandinsky “Words are inner sounds&...

W o r d s   a r e   i n n e r   s o u n d s.  The inner sound arises partly — perhaps principally — from the object for which the word serves as a name.  But when the object itself is not seen, but only its name is heard, an abstract conception arises in the mind of the listener, a dematerialized...
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Posted by @stonefly in Kandinsky, Wassily on 02 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Kandinsky “Those lonely souls̷...

Those lonely souls who hunger and possess the power of vision are mocked or regarded as mentally abnormal.  But the voices of those rare souls who cannot be smothered in sleep and who feel dark longings for spiritual life, for knowledge and progress, stand out wailing and disconsolate amidst the crude...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Form, Kandinsky, Wassily on 02 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Kandinsky on Colour and Space...

Colour plays its part in painting in the guise of paint. Space — in the guise of form, delineating space (”painterly”), or drawing. These two elements — colour and form — are the essential, eternal, immutable language of painting. ~ Content and Form, 1909
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Posted by @stonefly in Kandinsky, Wassily, Works on 02 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Kandinsky’s Sounds...

Different It was a big 3 – white on dark brown.  The curve at the top was the same size as the curve at the bottom. So thought many people. And yet the top was slightly, slightly, slightly bigger than the bottom. This 3 looked slightly downward, for the figure only seemed to stand perfectly upright....
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