Kandinsky’s transition into abstraction is triggered by his spirituality, but in this period also influenced by the ideas of the Bauhaus community: how to link the imaginary and real and apply abstractly designed solutions to real-world problems. The book he wrote after “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” shows the vast inspiration in his schools work even in its title: “From Point to Line to Plane”. The artist began combining emotional with the mechanical, the intuitive with the rational…

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