Shot Notes
At such a time art ministers to lower needs, and is used for
material ends. She seeks her substance in hard realities because
she knows of nothing nobler. Objects, the reproduction of which
is considered her sole aim, remain monotonously the same. The
question “what?” disappears from art; only the question “how?”
remains. By what method are these material objects to be
reproduced? The word becomes a creed. Art has lost her soul.
In the search for method the artist goes still further. Art becomes
so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they
complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. For since the
artist in such times has no need to say much, but only to be
notorious for some small originality and consequently lauded by a
small group of patrons and connoisseurs (which incidentally is
also a very profitable business for him), there arise a crowd of
gifted and skilful painters, so easy does the conquest of art
appear. In each artistic circle are thousands of such artists, of
whom the majority seek only for some new technical manner, and
who produce millions of works of art without enthusiasm, with cold
hearts and souls asleep.
…
First by the artist is heard his voice, the voice that is inaudible to
the crowd. Almost unknowingly the artist follows the call. Already in
that very question “how?” lies a hidden seed of renaissance. For
when this “how?” remains without any fruitful answer, there is
always a possibility that the same “something” (which we call
personality today) may be able to see in the objects about it not
only what is purely material but also something less solid;
something less “bodily” than was seen in the period of realism,
when the universal aim was to reproduce anything “as it really is”
and without fantastic imagination.
…
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation,
however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but
envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts
today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods
of music to his own art. And from this results that modern desire
for rhythm in painting, for mathematical, abstract construction, for
repeated notes of colour, for setting colour in motion.
-Kandinsky
Very cool photograph…beautiful colours, lines, form….good observation. Interesting words as well….Phil
like the shot; the lovely cool feel and textures - just wish the top right was crisper.
its one of those frames that when they show up i hold my breath… its a trully inspiring image!
sd