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WASSILY KADINSKY

"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul."
Wassily Kadinsky (1866-1944).
Considered by many to be the father of abstract art Wassily Kadinsky's writings on color theory and the nature of art, CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL IN ART was originally published in 1911 and translated in 1914.

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CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL IN ART

BY WASSILY KADINSKY [TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL T. H. SADLER]

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