Tulkotājas Lindas Gediņas pēcvārds: "Par garīgo mākslā", spriežot pēc tā, ko pats Kandinskis raksta sava darba ievadā, ir piezīmju apkopojums, kuras vāktas 10 gadus. Šīs piezīmes izgaismo viņa teorētiskās nostādnes attiecībā uz mākslu un mākslas darbu, dažādu mākslas virzienu un tiem raksturīgo līdzekļu iespējamo sintēzi un apmaiņu, kā arī garīguma, ekspresijas, līdz ar to - formas un krāsas vērtības pārsvaru pār reālistisku dabas reprezentāciju.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter, and Art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy Of Fine Arts in Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
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