Art can be an insight into the mind – Kandinsky with his modernist, expressionist art work provides a deep insight into the human psyche providing a visual representation of the dysfunction, delusion and ciaos of the human mind.
Kandinsky once said “colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky
The eccentricity of the expressionist art, they take reality and they distort it, twisting reality and defining the undefinable insanity of us all. These paintings amazingly revealing and telling as they are have been heavily analysed revealing a healing capacity, with art as a form of therapy for all sorts of ailments from the simplest rehabilitation of everyday stress to people suffering from something as concerning as psychiatric illness.
Recently I spoke to a practicing architect and he told me of the numerous elements of design that can be inspired or informed by art work, the remedial properties of such art work and how the form an composition are more than a ‘pretty picture’.
The concept of healing art work is most certainly not a new idea, explored since the time art came into fruition. The continuation of the concept of my folie, the embodiment of delusion and insanity, is being carried into the next phase of the design through the conceptualization and interpretation of Kandinsky’s work.
Architecture informed by the expressionist art work will be explored to combat modern day insanity.
The modern office
The work place, some would argue is a place that leaves you with a delusional state of mind. It is blank with walls in every direction, endless cubicles, no natural light, segregation of staff and mind numbingly dysfunctional spaces. People are left empty inside after enduring these spaces for eight to ten hours a day!
My design will, through the translation of Kandinsky’s art (a representation of the insanity and delusion of the mind), provide a place for students to escape these everyday examples of insanity. The design will embody the delusional elements of Kandinsky’s art and translate this into an experiential healing of modern life, it will provide spaces for people to let go of inhibitions and to explore ones-self, it will be a space that allows the delusion of the mind to clam and create a space of function and beauty.
