The spirituality of art after Kandinsky
Journal Title: Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
Wassily Kandinsky defined the character of the spirituality of modern art and outlined its territory, becoming, along with Duchamp, a patron of various trends in modern art. The notion of the spirituality of art has proved to be an important characteristic feature of works of art. It figures prominently in the writings of art historians, theologians, and aestheticians, and it seems to correspond to Charles Taylor’s conceptions of epiphanic art. Nevertheless, the very notion of the spirituality of art is far from clearly defined: it can refer to the spiritual nature of an artwork itself or to the creative process, or to the spirituality of a work of art that can be determined by its theological context. In this paper I have compared several distinct readings of the notion of the spirituality of art, with Kandinsky’s thought constituting the frame of reference for the interpretations of the works of Rothko and Viola.
Authors and Affiliations
Maria Popczyk
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP270721
- DOI 10.26485/AI/2017/19/8
- Views 108
- Downloads 0
Designing utopia. Avant-garde architecture vs. processes of modernization
In the first half of the 20th century, the relations between the social revolution, the processes of modernization, and avant-garde art and architecture were very close. Piotr Juszkiewicz, analyzing the relations between...
Tadeusz Kantor – Engagement – Multiplication – Participation
The article discusses the Multipart project prepared by Tadeusz Kantor for the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw (1970 and 1971). The name's neologism arose from the combination of words: multiplication and participation. The aut...
A post-socialist city: a “turn” in shaping the architectural image of a city at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The case of Łódź
Following the political breakthrough of 1989 architects were faced with completely new challenges. After the lethargy of the 1980s Polish architecture experienced a real turn. A remarkable transformation was taking place...
Cultural metissage – the descriptive concept of hybrid phenomena on the peripheries of cultures
The term “metissage” in its original meaning had racial character. Later, the term estilo mestizo came into use, describing Latin American art in the period of Spanish domination, which appeared on the peripheries of the...
Can we talk about contemporary avant-garde outside Western cultures? The case of contemporary art in the Republic of South Africa
The appreciation of the importance of the avant-garde, and of its re-thinking of the sociocultural reality, ensues from its fundamental role for 20th and 21st century art practice and theory. However, in the contemporary...