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Tonight, we'll read the opening to Vassily Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art, published in 1911.

Kendinsky, a Russian painter and art theorist, is credited as the pioneer of abstract art.

This text is the artist's meditation

on how the creative process

feeds a spiritual hunger within the artist.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Part one about general aesthetic. One, introduction. Every work of art is a child of its age and, in many

cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces

an art of its own which can never be repeated. Efforts to revive the art principles of the past

will it best produce an art that is stillborn. It is impossible for us to live and feel, as did the ancient Greeks.

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