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Currently, from January 26 till April 25 (1995), the Museum of Modern Art in New York presents an exhibition, “Kandinsky: Compositions”, organized by Magdalena Dabrowski. Interesting insight and analysis comparing Kandinsky’s and Mondrian’s spiritual quests are found in the article written by Hilton Kramer that is published in The New Criterion.1 Among other paintings there is Kandinsky’s famous Composition VII (1913) which is the major work of Kandinsky’s Munich period — the period when the new concept of artistic form arises and finds its completion in his essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art. A world of ideas explodes from the more graphically applied center of the painting, revolving around it like in the moment of creation. Simple forms and contrasting colors break the surface of the painting clearing the space for the intuition of the depth. As Wassily Kandinsky writes in the catalogue for the second Society [“Blaue Reiter”] exhibition:
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Hilton Kramer, “Kandinsky and the Birth of Abstraction”, The New Criterion 13.7 (March 1995): 3–7.
Hajo Duchting, Wassily Kandinsky 1866–1944. A Revolution in Painting ( Koln: Benedikt Taschen, 1991 ), p. 54.
Paul Tillich, On the Boundary. An Autobiographical Sketch ( New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1966 ), p. 28.
Paul Tillich, “Existential Aspects of Modern Art”, in: Christianity and the Existentialists, ed. by C. Michalson (NY: Scribner’s, 1956 ), p. 144.
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art ( New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977 ), p. 9.
Paul Tillich, On the Idea of a Theology of Cultures. In: Paul Tillich — Theologian on Boundaries, ed. by Mark K. Taylor ( Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991 ), p. 43.
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art ( New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977 ), p. 44.
Paul Tillich, “Religious Dimension of Contemporary Art”, in: Paul Tillich. On Art and Architecture ( New York: Crossroad, 1989 ), p. 177.
Paul Tillich, “On the Theology of Fine Art and Architecture”, in: Paul Tillich. On Art and Architecture ( New York: Crossroad, 1989 ), p. 207.
Paul Tillich, “Art and Society”, in: Paul Tillich. On Art and Architecture ( New York: Crossroad, 1989 ), p. 33.
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Vevere, V. (1998). Plastic Expression and Intuition of Being in Paul Tillich’s Theology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Enjoyment. Analecta Husserliana, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1425-9_15
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