THE ATLAS OF THE UNPAINTABLE
Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky
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Painter of the first abstractions the art world agreed to call abstractions, and author of Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), which cites Blavatsky by name.
⚠⚠ HE SAID IT OUT LOUD, WHICH IS WHY HIS CASE IS DIFFERENT FROM MOST OF THIS WING. The book is a theosophical argument for painting: matter is thinning, the spiritual is rising, and colour has an effect on the soul the way a key struck has on a string. Nobody has to infer the influence — it is on the page, with a footnote.
⚠⚠ HE SAID IT OUT LOUD, WHICH IS WHY HIS CASE IS DIFFERENT FROM MOST OF THIS WING. The book is a theosophical argument for painting: matter is thinning, the spiritual is rising, and colour has an effect on the soul the way a key struck has on a string. Nobody has to infer the influence — it is on the page, with a footnote.
Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.
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sephirahtiferet
whyTiferet is the harmony that reconciles. His whole theory of colour is a theory of chords.
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On White II, 1923Wikimedia Commons · public domain
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