Spiritual In Art Kandinsky

According to Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written in 1912, “music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which this spiritual revolution makes itself felt.” (Kandinsky, part 1, Section 3) Kandinsky correlates specific colors with definite emotions, such as blue, a heavenly color, while black is the color of grief that is hardly human (Fineberg, 94). Kandinsky links color and music in his book by saying, “Generally speaking, color is a power which directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” (Kandinsky, 25). Furthermore Kandinsky believes …show more content…
Kandinsky’s concentration on the expressive power of color became the central focus of his artistic endeavors often referring to them as “vibrations” and “sounds” (Baumgartner, 74). Kandinsky did not see a difference in music and art, instead he understood them as a condition and the extinction of one another — where music ended, art began and vice versa. Therefore, Kandinsky believed that every note had a color associated with it and every music composition was a composition of colors that later he put down on canvas to create his masterpieces; in fact many of his works are titled with the name “composition.” Lastly, Kandinsky not only used and alluded to musical terminology in his painting titles but also borrowed basic musical terminology and categories such as, “improvisation” and “composition” for use in his title pieces (Bayer, 110). The new kind of art that Kandinsky pioneered was not only an expression of internal emotion, but rather a search for a new kind of human existence (Lots). Kandinsky's works are on the edge of suspended wonder and it tests the limit of knowledge. Kandinsky only named the paintings he considered the most accomplished “composition”; he only named ten of his paintings this