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In both the almanac Der blaue Reiter and the book The Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky attempts to construct a theory of pictorial harmony by analyzing the effect color has on the viewer. “If color is a means of influencing the soul, you can than say that pictorial art in the future will use colors as sounds, and canvases will be divided into two categories: simple compositions (or melodies) and complex (or symphonies).” |