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Kandinsky and Inspiration: Poetry and Painting.
MOULIN Isabelle & SERS Philippe.

Kandinsky and Inspiration: Poetry and Painting.

Invent
€23,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 30057
Format 21.5 x 27
Détails 144 p., illustrated, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2023
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782376801122
This book, an extension of the exhibition and the accompanying symposium, allows us to gain a closer understanding of Kandinsky's strong intuition: the synthesis of the arts. The painter in fact sensed an organic union between these three major arts: painting, poetry, and music. His album Résonances (Klänge), produced in 1913, of which this book reproduces the original engravings or facsimiles, powerfully demonstrates this: Kandinsky places his poems, whether they express the depths of his inner life or the realities of the outside world, in relation to his pictorial inspiration, nourished for a large part, at this time, by biblical and apocalyptic themes. Wielding the pen or the brush are the tenants of a single spiritual quest. Poems and paintings respond to each other in these pages where there is as much to read as to look at. The collected contributions highlight, in their respective approaches, how Kandinsky tirelessly pursued his research towards abstraction. In the highly turbulent context of the early 1910s, art seemed a response, a possible path to the tragedy of the human condition.
This book, an extension of the exhibition and the accompanying symposium, allows us to gain a closer understanding of Kandinsky's strong intuition: the synthesis of the arts. The painter in fact sensed an organic union between these three major arts: painting, poetry, and music. His album Résonances (Klänge), produced in 1913, of which this book reproduces the original engravings or facsimiles, powerfully demonstrates this: Kandinsky places his poems, whether they express the depths of his inner life or the realities of the outside world, in relation to his pictorial inspiration, nourished for a large part, at this time, by biblical and apocalyptic themes. Wielding the pen or the brush are the tenants of a single spiritual quest. Poems and paintings respond to each other in these pages where there is as much to read as to look at. The collected contributions highlight, in their respective approaches, how Kandinsky tirelessly pursued his research towards abstraction. In the highly turbulent context of the early 1910s, art seemed a response, a possible path to the tragedy of the human condition.