Concerning the spiritual in art
by Wassily Kandinsky · first published 1912
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A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystallizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own ground-breaking paintings, this book had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art. The first part issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express thei
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If you're really interested in how artists approach color and theory, you might pick up a copy of Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which puts forth a modernist/Bauhaus color theory: http://books.google.com/books?id=mG-VRWgfpuYC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky#Concerning_th...
on “Ask HN: How do you pick colors” ↗…introduction to color in general from the Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com/products/adobemag/archive/pdfs/9611febf... The Wikipedia entry is worth reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art is a beautiful manifesto on art, but contains a very interesting theory of color: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1619491532/ref=as_li_qf_sp_... Itten's The Elements of Color is the classic text on…
on “Ask HN: What do you wish you knew about UI/UX design?” ↗A great book about this is Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5321 The argument being that art is intensely connected to the time in which it is created, and the function of art in the context of the progression…
on “Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly” ↗…However, that part of the book is rarely translated into English. Generally, that whole bunch of romantics/spiritualists brought nothing but fuzziness to the subject of color theory in art. For example, in ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’ Kandinsky remarked that `orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow'. Goethe described the colour ‘yellow-red’ as being a favorite of `savage nations' and `impetuous, robust and uneducated men'…
…Color (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1961). [7] J. W. v. Goethe, Goethe's Colour Theory, Trans. C. L. Eastlake (London: John Murray, 1840). [8] Wassily Kandinsky, Trans. Michael Sadler, Concerning the spiritual in art (Penguin UK, 2024), p. 59.
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