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September 9, 2005

Wassily Kandinsky's expression of his emotions perceptions led to the development of an abstract style of painting based on the non-representational properties of color and form.

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Kandinsksy, Composition V11, 1913

Colour gives way to form

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Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923

I wonder wha this kind of abstraction has to do with the abstraction explored in Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment?

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Kandinsky, Composition X,1939

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 5:36 PM | | Comments (0)
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