Published: 09/28/2018
Keywords: V.V.Kandinsky; psychology of artistic creativity; artistic practice; creative act; mystical experience; theological understanding of creativity
Available online: 28.09.2018
Kuznetsova A. Philipp Sers. Kandinsky: the artist's ideas and mystical experience. // Aesthetica Universalis 2018. 3. 13-51.
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Throughout his life, Kandinsky remained a thinker whose ideas were based on practical searches in the field of art. In his youth, the future artist received an education that prepared him for scientific activity. In 1896, when Kandinsky was thirty years old, he was offered a university chair. He gave up his professorial career in order to devote himself to painting, while remaining a researcher and teacher (in particular, he worked at Moscow University), publishing numerous texts testifying to the rigor of his scientific approach. Endowed with a poetic gift, Kandinsky also created stage compositions; having a great command of languages (primarily Russian and German), he boldly used their riches, was no stranger to word-making. In the field of theory, he developed a set of rules and principles, a dictionary and grammar of art: the theory of color, the theory of form and the theory of composition. His reflections are based on the experience of using the language of his own means of art and the principles of composition. Kandinsky considers art as an effort aimed at finding the truth: for him there is an artistic path of knowledge, and this path leads to personal and collective improvement. But first of all, Kandinsky's theory is connected with artistic practice, with the very act of artistic creation, which he puts in the first place. His theory is born out of this practice. Kandinsky's thought is equally relevant to the theology of art: the creative act of the artist is a continuation of the act of Divine creation and a call for the establishment of world harmony.
Keywords: V.V.Kandinsky; psychology of artistic creativity; artistic practice; creative act; mystical experience; theological understanding of creativity
Pages: 13-51
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