Along the Road in Panama

Along the Road in Panama, watercolor, 5x7" (12x16 cm.)

Wassily Kandinsky, in his philosophical work Point and Line to Plane, says : "Fear arises from ignorance". He explains that architecture is bound up with utility, while music serves no practical purpose. These two opposite forms of art expression have a scientific basis about which nobody seems to feel offended. Then he says that PAINTING has only been freed from practical meaning and liberated from the necessity of responding to the many purposes it had earlier in the last one hundred years. Theoretically, he insists, a work of art can, in its final analysis, consist of a point. And a line, is the track made by a moving point. W.K, en su libro Punto y Linea al Plano, dice: "El miedo se eleva de la ignorancia". El explica que la arquitectura esta unida a la utilidad, mientras que la musica no sirve ningun proposito practico. Estas dos formas de expresion artistica tienen una base cientifica que no parece ofender a nadie. Entonces, dice Kandinsky, LA PINTURA ha sido liberada de su significado practico y de la necesidad de responder a propositos fijos solo en los ultimos 100 anos. Teoricamente, insiste, una obra de arte puede consistir, en el analisis final, de un punto. Y una linea, es el recorrido hecho por un punto en movimiento.