Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily Kandinsky Sjaak Commandeur desire and our faltering attempts

desire and our faltering attempts to understand others

Zij aan zij ontwikkelen de twee de filosofie van het existentialisme

Met de jaren is hun passie nog aangescherpt door de grote tragedie in hun leven: ze bleven kinderloos

literature and politics

the unbreakable bonds of family and the inescapability of the past

Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily Kandinsky Sjaak Commandeur desire and our faltering attemptsWhy do we make art? In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the earliest and most famous abstract painters, argued against art for arts sake. Exploring form and colour, spirituality and tradition, Kandinsky instead predicted a future for painting in its potential to redirect the attention of viewers away from the shallow materialism of the modern world toward the more profound intellectual and emotional concerns of their interior