II. The Movement of the Triangle (From Concerning the Spiritual in Art By Wassily Kandinsky)
The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.
The whole triangle is moving slowly, almost invisibly forwards and upwards. Where the apex was today the second segment is tomorrow; what today can be understood only by the apex and to the rest of the triangle is an incomprehensible gibberish, forms tomorrow the true thought and feeling of the second segment.
[Well thats the word on the street from the abstract-expressionists...how curious]
thoughts?
At first I felt that this triangle metaphor was hilarious, but when you get your head around what is being said it dose in fact make sense.
ReplyDelete"Where the apex was today" I’m presuming, is what exists, influential and the cause of the present art practice.
"The second segment is tomorrow" it is he future, it is the larger segment which initiates new influences and event’s that will expand current art practices.
“Tomorrow” cannot be predicted therefore is “gibberish”, it makes sense that the "spirit" essentially is therefore connected to “tomorrow” as desire and fascination are attached to the future,(the "second segment"). We are therefore as artists, and humans living for “tomorrow” and the “spirit”, as we are constantly preparing for something that is yet to come.