October 13, 2006
An example of romantic art built on color dissonances? One whose impulse works through Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko ; a religious impulse of intensely subjective, emotional experience that projects one’s own feelings into external nature?
Wassily Kandinksy, Black Strokes I. 1913. Oil on canvas. 129.4 x 131.1 cm. The Solomon R. Guggebheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.
In kandinsky's understanding of romanticism beauty is that which corresponds to an inner spiritual need.
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