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this week on the avant guardian \/\/ external lack of cohesion is internal harmony

January 25, 2010
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this week on the avant guardian \/\/ external lack of cohesion is internal harmony

The harmony of the new art demands a more subtle contruction than this, something that appeals less to the eye and more to the soul. This “concealed construction” may arise from an apparently fortuitous selection of forms on the canvas. Their external lack of cohesion is their internal harmony. This haphazard arrangement of forms may be the future of artistic harmony. Their fundamental relationship will finally be able to be expressed in mathematical form, but in terms irregular rather than regular. -Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art Images via Web Museum, Paris

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