Aesthetics(after Kandinsky), 2006
Concerning the Spiritual In Art Book translated into braille, printed edition


Aesthetics(after Kandinsky)

A book written by Wassily Kandinsky about his attempt at a spiritual revolution in art was taken and translated into braille.

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Braille is composed of a binary system based off of opposites lined up within two rows of six digits in total. Through touch, a person can understand written language without the aid of vision. The computer works off of a binary system of opposites, 1's and 0's, and is similar to that of the braille system in transmitting information.

The artist Wassily Kandinsky based his whole practice of painting to the transmission of the spiritual into the static form of painting. What he sought to express with his works of intense color was the immediacy of music in terms of aesthetic beauty. He wished to make his paintings flow like vibrations of sound and appeal to vision in the same sense that the eardrum is awakened by beautiful melodies. He wrote a philosophical/theoretical work explaining his objective to change the movement of art, titled, 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art' in 1977.

 

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