The Spirit of Kandinsky

The Spirit of Kandinsky

And then there was Kandinsky

the brilliant Vasily Vasil’evič Kandinsky

he broke with figurative representation and dissolved reality into pure forms and spaces

the liquefaction of nigredo is complete

in 1911 he wrote The Spiritual in Art

therein lies everything

analysis, perspective, awareness

he was deeply influenced by the dualism of theosophy, dualism overturned

he consciously described the modern period as an age of disorder and confusion, a dark phase in which humanity had lost contact with the spirit

and was cogs in it

a yellow age

like the Christ of the Theosophist Gaugin

in his theory of colours Yellow is a strong, agitated, material and chaotic colour, almost an explosion without control, earthly and material, close to disorder and madness, it is the colour of a phase of disintegration and chaotic transformation, it is not yet a spiritual colour (like blue or white), but represents an earthly and centrifugal energy, similar to primordial chaos that must be transcended

all yellow is his Last Judgement

perhaps more than the others he was aware that he lived in an apocalyptic era

Kandinsky had a great awareness of what he was doing, perhaps more than anyone else

like an executioner obedient to the sovereignty of history about to perpetrate the execution of a friend

perhaps he truly hoped that the nigredo would immediately open the door to the other alchemical phases

Kandinsky died in 1944

unaware that the nigredo of which he had been conscious

Not knowing that the nigredo of which he had been aware executor would be a trap

or perhaps he knew it very well, perhaps he knew it better than everyone else, Kandinskij, with a crystal clear awareness of what he was doing

a trap

the West, unaware of it, has fallen into it and no longer found a way out, to go from black to white

and would have fallen into a golden cage, where the previous dynamics will find no more space

because another god will be installed on the throne