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Lot Essay
Executed in the year that the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau, Geometric Abstraction is a typical work from this important period when Kandinsky's unique brand of abstraction was at its most analytical and refined.
For much of 1925, Kandinsky was preoccupied with his theoretical treatise on the use of geometric abstraction as a means of expressing a higher realm of spiritual reality. This exhaustive treatise was published in early 1926 under the title Pünkt und Linie zu Flä che. Beitrag zur Anaklyse der malerischen Elemente (Point and Line to Plane: A Contribution to the Analysis of Pictorial Elements) and attempted to articulate the precise emotional meaning of geometric shapes and their relationship to one another. To some extent, Point and Line to Plane , was a logical extension of his previous treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art , without the earlier book's emphasis on colour theory. To a large extent Point and Line to Plane is a condension of the principles of the course Kandinsky taught at the Bauhaus.
Drawn on a square sheet of paper using compass, ruler, set-square and protractors, Geometric Abstraction is a precisely engineered drawing that builds a unity of space and form between its shapes and motifs like some architectural diagram. A conscious product of Kandinsky's bizarre utopian theories, it is a work of rare beauty that is to all intent and purpose an engineer's blue-print of a dream reality.
For much of 1925, Kandinsky was preoccupied with his theoretical treatise on the use of geometric abstraction as a means of expressing a higher realm of spiritual reality. This exhaustive treatise was published in early 1926 under the title Pünkt und Linie zu Flä che. Beitrag zur Anaklyse der malerischen Elemente (Point and Line to Plane: A Contribution to the Analysis of Pictorial Elements) and attempted to articulate the precise emotional meaning of geometric shapes and their relationship to one another. To some extent, Point and Line to Plane , was a logical extension of his previous treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art , without the earlier book's emphasis on colour theory. To a large extent Point and Line to Plane is a condension of the principles of the course Kandinsky taught at the Bauhaus.
Drawn on a square sheet of paper using compass, ruler, set-square and protractors, Geometric Abstraction is a precisely engineered drawing that builds a unity of space and form between its shapes and motifs like some architectural diagram. A conscious product of Kandinsky's bizarre utopian theories, it is a work of rare beauty that is to all intent and purpose an engineer's blue-print of a dream reality.