Wassily Kandinsky | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 17 pages of analysis & critique of Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Kandinsky | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 17 pages of analysis & critique of Wassily Kandinsky.
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SOURCE: "Kandinsky and Problems of Abstraction," in Artforum, Vol. XVII, No. 3, November, 1978, pp. 58-63.

In the following essay, Mackie explores the role of abstract form in Kandinsky's art and artistic philosophy.

In a very sympathetic article Hilton Kramer once voiced his misgivings (and disappointments) about Kandinsky, arriving at the view that he populated naturalistic (19th-century landscape) space with abstract forms and was unable to come to terms with the pictorial implications of the tendency of abstract forms to flatten space.1 Implicit in this criticism, of course, is the assumption that abstract forms demand a certain kind of spatial treatment, and this assumption, in turn, is part of a view about the nature and purpose of abstraction itself. Kandinsky was well aware that abstract forms suggest a narrowing of spatial depth, but he obviously did not think that they demanded it, as at least two passages from Concerning the...

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