“Kandinsky argues that the ‘vibrations’ of colour directly cause corresponding vibrations in the soul of the attuned viewer (‘Colour is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Colour is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings) and that the spiritually aware abstract artist setting off those ‘vibrations’ is a visionary leader whose moral responsibility it is ‘to drag the heavy cartload of struggling humanity, getting stuck amid the stones, ever onward and upward”.[1] “Colour makes only a momentary and superficial impression on a soul but to a more sensitive soul the effect of colours is deeper and intensely moving.”[2] “Kandinsky was to claim that he had produced the ‘First Abstract Watercolour’ in 1911, which of course conferred on him the by-then significant title of the ‘first abstract artist’.”[3]
[1]Wood, Steve Edwards and Paul. In Art of the Avant Gardes. London: The Open University Yale,2004.Chapter 3 page 238: The Spiritual in Art: Kandinsky
[2] Concerning the Spiritual in Art, by Wassily Kandinsky, translated by Michael T.H.Sadler, New York: Dover Publications,Inc., 1977 page 24.
[3] Wood, Steve Edwards and Paul. In Art of the Avant Gardes. London: The Open University Yale,2004.Chapter 3 page 238: The Spiritual in Art: Kandinsky
