Abstract art is also the basis of design, and of an aesthetic that has endowed the industrialization of goods and modern mass affluence with beauty. This passage has not been sufficiently explored, but it demonstrates the magnitude of the cognitive revolution of modern art and the impact it has had on our entire society and way of life. Some artists introduced the teaching of modern art in industrial institutions, such as the famous Bauhaus, with truly significant consequences. Think of Vasily Kandinsky, with his treatise “Point Line and Surface,” or Paul Klee, with his course at the Bauhaus “Theory of Form and Figuration,” who embarked on paths hitherto unexplored by man, discovering primary forms, colors, and compositions, and who through their teaching of industrial designers would help build the “artificial” form of the world we inhabit, from houses to furniture to cars and forms of communication. Having lost the role of imitation of the real, now firmly in the hands of photographers, these artists changed in a Copernican way the relationship between art and the world, no longer dedicated to the reproduction of natural reality, but to the creation of artificial realities produced by industry. Abstract art became the most concrete art in history.
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