Kandinsky și percepția extatică
Kandinsky and ecstatic perception

Summary/Abstract: Early interpreters of abstract art identified in this new form of painting a metaphysical dimension designed to transform the viewer’s perception. We find in Kandinsky’s writings an attempt to induce what some commentators have called “ecstatic perception”. This paper will examine the transfiguration of seeing through the concept of “objectless vibration”. The thesis this paper advances is that ecstatic perception presupposes the ability to directly capture the originary vibrations that precede the difference between colour, sound and form. What is peculiar to this form of seeing is that it transcends matter not by denying it, but by refining its perception. Ecstatic perception must see an ecstatic form of mattter.

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