Spirituality in Abstract Art - Kuspit
Donald Kuspit : Concerning the Spiritual in Contemporary Art One of 19 essays in the catalog of "Abstract Art : Abstract Painting 1890-1985" ..for the 1986 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art I have indicated which of the images below were selected by me — by Kuspit from the exhibition —or by Kuspit from other sources. ********** Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913 (my selection) The title of this essay recalls Kandinsky's brief book of 1910, and that’s where Kuspit begins: When Kandinsky published "On the Spiritual in Art", the nature of spirituality in art was clearer than it is today. For Kandinsky the spiritual was identified with "the search for the abstract in art" and it existed in Opposition to "the nightmare of materialism." Today art does not seem so mighty an element in spiritual life, and spirituality does not seem so evident in art or in general. As Wikipedia tells us, Kandinsky is "credited as one...