Dal segno alla funzione. Sulla rivoluzione semiologica nel linguaggio visivo di Wassily Kandinsky

In 1926 was pubblished for the first time, Point and line to plane, the collection of lessons Wassily Kandinsky held at the Bauhaus school since 1922. The writings start by the assumption that the observer of a paint is in front of two observation perspectives, the external one and the internal one, as well as looking from behind a glass or metaphorically opening the door and coming out of isolation, catching the pulse of life. In these years, from an artistic historical point of view, the cultural conditions and the abstract line took new ways towards linguistic structuralism and towards a semantics of color and shapes that with Kandinsky became a real implementation of the visual language. In the same collection of writings Point and line to plane, the transition from inside to outside symbolically represent the rise from one world to another world, where interpretation leaves the plans of figurative language to approach to the functional categories. This paper refers to the second moment of Kandinsky’s art, the crucial phase of transition from figurative art to abstract art.