Christmas 2015

By Anonymous

A VIBRATION OFTHE HEART
by Giuseppe Frangi

“It is like a block of ice with a burning flame inside.”
This is what Vasily Kandinsky wrote in 1925, the same year in which he produced this drawing of ink on paper, today conserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Fifteen years had passed from his first famous abstract watercolor of 1909.
The appearance of Kandinsky’s art had become colder and more calculated: these are the years in which he taught at Bauhaus, the well-known German school of architecture and design tied to rationalism and functionalism. He also wrote an essay on artistic theory entitled, Point and Line to Plane. This drawing is the perfect exemplification of his intent: to express in a clear and pure way a dynamic that is fully real and human.
This dynamic is the attraction exercised on the line (our life) by a point (the Other, the unexpected Guest). Something in Kandinsky’s representation, inasmuch as it is dematerialized, produces, as he, himself wrote, “a vibration of the heart.” Perhaps the curves that accompany the trajectory could be read as the representation of this vibration.

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