On the Influence of the Esoteric Literature of the XX Century on Abstractionism: An Unusual Point of View Cover Image

За влиянието на езотеричната литература от XX век върху абстракционизма: една необичайна глeдна точка
On the Influence of the Esoteric Literature of the XX Century on Abstractionism: An Unusual Point of View

Author(s): Vyara Popova
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, History of Art
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: anthroposophy; abstractionism; objectless painting; mimesis; thought-form; aura

Summary/Abstract: Through her study Matic offers a provocative and risky speculative vision of the influence of the Blavatsky’s anthroposophical tradition of on the formation of abstractionism under Kandinsky. Only by following the course of her exposition, accompanied by evidential pictorial material, do we succeed in convincing ourselves of the validity of the hypothesis she has developed and its transformation into a thesis.

  • Issue Year: 5/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 182-192
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian