{"id":430,"date":"2007-07-11T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T22:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/11\/about-art-kandinsky\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T22:04:29","slug":"about-art-kandinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/11\/about-art-kandinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"About Art &#8211; Kandinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/kandinskyphoto.gif\" title=\"kandinskyphoto.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/kandinskyphoto.gif\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Wassily Kandinsky, born-realised artist\" height=\"225\" style=\"width: 176px;height: 225px\" title=\"Wassily Kandinsky, born-realised artist\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual or inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life. It exists and has power to create spiritual atmosphere; and from this inner standpoint one judges whether it is a good work of art or a bad one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need which springs from the soul. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All those variety of picture, when they are really art, fulfill their purpose and feed the spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPainting is an art, and art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very important for the artist to guage his position aright, to realise that he has a duty to his art and to himself, that he is not king of the castle but rather a servant of a nobler purpose. He must search deeply into his own soul, develop and tend it, so that his art has something to clothe, and does not remain a glove without a hand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Concerning the Spiritual in Art<\/em> by Wassily Kandinsky, first printed in 1914<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual or inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life. It exists and has power to create spiritual atmosphere; and from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,2,14],"tags":[491,500],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-27","category-art","category-quotes","tag-soul","tag-spirituality-in-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-6W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}