The Modern Movement in Ireland: A Case of Pluralistic Ignorance

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Harvard University Press. P435  Utopian Reality: Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond; Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori, Maria Mileeva; BRILL, Oct 24, 2013"Van Doesburg stated that the purpose of art was to imbue man with those positive spiritual qualities that were needed in order to overcome the dominance of the physical and create the conditions for putting an end to wars. In an enthusiastic essay on Wassily Kandinsky he had written about the dialogue between the artist and the viewer, and the role of art as 'the educator of our inner life, the educator of our hearts and minds'. Van Doesburg subsequently adopted the view that the spiritual in man is nurtured specifically by abstract art, which he later described as 'pure thought, which does not signify a concept derived from natural phenomena but which is contained in numbers, measures, relationships, and abstract lines'. In his response to Piet Mondrian's Composition 10, Van Doesburg linked peace and the spiritual to a non-representational work of art, asserting that 'it produces a most spiritual impression…the impression of repose: the repose of the soul'."  William J.R. Curtis, 1996. Modern Architecture Since 1900. 3 Edition. Phaidon Press.  Henry Russell Hitchcock, 1997. The International Style. Reissue Edition. W. W. Norton & Company.  http://hughpearman.com/modernism-or-should-that-be-modernwasm/  , 1990. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 15Rev Ed Edition. Encyclopaedia Britannica (UK) Ltd. Page | 26