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Artist, musician, spiritual, TRUTH seeker, disenchanted with the "world" that fallible man has created. ..
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"The spectator is too ready to look for a meaning in a picture - i.e., some outward connection between its various parts. Our materialistic age has produced a type of spectator or "connoisseur," who is not content to put himself opposite a picture and let it say its own message. Instead of allowing the inner value of the picture to work, he worries himself in looking for "closeness to nature," or "temperament," or "handling," or "tonality," or "perspective," or whatnot. His eye does not probe the outer expression to arrive at the inner meaning. In a conversation with an interesting person, we endeavour to get at his fundamental ideas and feelings. We do not bother about the words he uses, nor the spelling of those words, nor the breath necessary for speaking them, nor the movements of his tongue and lips, nor the psychological working on our brain, nor the physical sound in our ear, nor the physiological effect on our nerves. We realize that these things, though interesting and important, are not the main things of the moment, but that the meaning and idea is what concerns us. We should have the same feeling when confronted with a work of art. When this becomes general, the artist will be able to dispense with natural form and colour and speak in purely artistic language. "
(Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual In Art, p.49) ..
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Wassily Kandinsky's theories regarding the spiritual component of art were revolutionary. The idea that non-representational arrangements of line, form, and color can evoke an emotional response in the viewer is a concept that I am unceasingly fascinated by and continuously seeking to achieve in my own work.
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