Kandinsky [antikvár]

Every significant work of art is both a pro- duct of its period and an episode in that period. Some appear so detached from it as to be almost foreign to it. They tower above it. Both the present which they ignore and the future which they announce and to which they already belong are, as it were, a matter of indifference to them. Nevertheless they form a connecting link between the two, being totally involved in what does not yet exist, in what begins with them, and in what is ending. Kandinsky's work came into being at a time when it had become inevitable, although its developments, its consequences and its potentialities could not then be foreseen. Close to contemporary tendencies at first, it finally rejoined immemorial forms, so forgotten and so distant that they seemed bizarre. The intervening time was one of absolute creation. As he gradually moved away from his ori- gins, the painter's destiny brought him nearer to the art which he had seemed to reject at the beginning of his career. It was a double and inverse trajectory, quickened by constant,