Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00373)

Mark writes
>Based largely on his understanding of Goethe's "Theory of Color," which
Steiner had edited for publication in 1890-91, they speak of the
subject from both its practical artistic aspects to psycho-spiritual and
transformative (or metamorphic) ones. There is an interesting inquiry
into the occult science behind colour and a proposed new understanding
of color as an living organism to be considered on its own terms as pure
natural force. He suggests that artists try to "paint so as to have the
form arise out of the work of the colours. Pretty "avant" stuff for
1921, although he was not alone by any means, i.e., Kandinsky had
already published his seminal "Concerning the Spiritual in art" with its
important chapters on color (in part influenced by Theosophy) seven
>years earlier.

Turner also painted some works using Goethe's color theory.
Leadbeater's aura drawings also, I think, influenced Kandinsky.

>Incidentally, for anyone on the list who might be able to attend, The
Berkeley Art Museum in Berkely, CA is currently holding an exhibition
called "Knowledge of Higher Worlds, Rudolph Steiner's blackboard and
chalk drawings": colored chalk drawings created by the scholar and
mystic who drew to illustrate lectures given between 1919 and 1924.
>Through Jan. 4.

There are some drawings at this Berkeley web site:
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/steiner/.

Bruce