"Russian Dreams" George Shishkina - the Cathedral of Monaco

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"Our soul has only recently awakened from a long period of materialism carries within itself the germ of despair - a consequence of disbelief, meaninglessness and purposelessness. It is not quite past the nightmare of materialist views, has made the life of the universe evil aimless game. Awakening the soul is still living under the strong influence of this a nightmare. Only a faint light flickers like a lone tiny dot on a huge black circle. This little light is the only aspiration of the soul and the soul to see it still lacks the courage, and she doubted whether this is not the world - a dream, and the circle of blackness - the reality . This question, as well as depressing meal - a consequence of the philosophy of materialism - strongly differentiates our soul. In our minds there is a crack, and the soul, if it can affect, sounds like a cracked precious vase found in the depths of the earth.
After going through a period of materialistic temptations, which the soul seemed to give in, but still shakes it off as an evil temptation, she gets revived after a struggle and suffering. More elementary feelings - fear, joy, sadness, etc. - Which, even in this period, the temptation could be the content of art, little attraction for the artist. He will try to awaken a more subtle, as yet unnamed feelings. He himself lives difficult, comparatively subtle life, and created by him certainly awaken in the ability to more subtle emotions of the viewer, are not amenable to expression in our words.

Uncertainty emerges out its sharp corners. First, there are eyes that can see yourself, there are heads that are capable of comparisons. These gifted people are asking themselves every day before yesterday wisdom was overthrown yesterday, and yesterday - today, it may be, and modern wisdom would be wiped out tomorrow. And the most daring of them answered: "It is quite possible".

Second, there are eyes that can see what is "not yet explained" by modern science. These people are asking themselves the question: "Will modern science to the way in which it has for so long is moving to solve these riddles? And when it comes to dealing with them, can I rely on her answer?".

On the other hand, are growing increasingly becoming famous or facts which science has welcomed yesterday's familiar with the word "sell." Various scholars, among whom are pure materialists, dedicate their strength scientific investigation of mysterious facts that can not be longer than either deny or suppress.

Multiplying the number of people who do not place any hope on the methods of materialistic science in matters relating to anything that is not a matter, or anything that is not available senses. These people are turning to half-forgotten times, with their half-forgotten methods, there to find help. These methods, however, is still alive among the nations to which we, with the height of our knowledge, accustomed to look with pity and contempt. These people include, for example, the Indians, who from time to time in our culture portrayed scientists puzzling facts, facts that are or are not paying attention or of which, as from annoying flies, tried to brush off surface words and explanations. "

Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"

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When shaken religion, science and morality and external foundations totter, a man turns his gaze inward from the outer self.

Literature, music and art are the first, the most sensitive areas where this turn to the spiritual becomes noticeable in a real form. These areas are turning away from the soul the devastating contents of modern life and turn to the subjects and surroundings, giving free outcome intangible aspirations thirsty soul.

Word is the inner meaning. Skillful use of the word (in agreement with the poetic feeling) - internally necessary to repeat two, three, several times, may not only lead to an increase in the internal sound, but to identify other unknown spiritual properties of the word. "Pure" sound of the word appears in the foreground and directly affects the soul. The soul comes into a state of purposeless vibration, which is even more complicated, I would say, more "supersensible" than psychic vibrations caused by the bell ringing string ... And word has two meanings in this way, the first - the direct and the second - an internal, is a pure material of poetry and literature, material that can be applied only to the art and through which it says the soul.

In a more highly developed beings and things are intrinsic value and, finally, begin to sound internally. So it is with color.
Color is a tool that can directly affect the soul. The artist gives a vibration the human soul. "

And the color, which itself is material for counterpoint, which is itself fraught with boundless opportunities to lead, in conjunction with the drawing to a great counterpoint painting, which will give her the opportunity to come to the track, and then the painting as a truly pure art, will serve as a divine . And at this dizzy height of its infallible head erect - the principle of internal necessity!

The inner necessity arises for the three mystical reasons. It is created by three mystical necessity:
1) Every artist, as creator, must express what is peculiar to him (individual item),
2) Every artist, as a child his age should express what is inherent in this period (an element of style in the internal sense, consisting of language and the language of the era of their own nationality while nationality exists as such),
3) Every artist, as a servant of art, must give that peculiar art in general (an element of pure and eternal art, which passes through all the people across all nationalities and across all ages, this element can be seen in art holding each artist, each nation and every age, as the main element of art, he knows no space or time).

Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"