Press play to hear the original musical compositions created in harmony with the artwork in the book.
这是艺术与设计系美术系列丛书的第七本。 Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s 论艺术中的精神（论艺术中的精神）, students explore the abstract and metaphorical. We invite you on a conceptual journey accompanied by an original composition from The Department of Music.
卡乐Tuuhetaufa
玛丽莲Milward
约旦史密斯
This is the seventh book in the Fine 艺术书籍 series created by the Department of 艺术与设计 at 犹他谷大学. As we prepared for this book, we saw an opportunity to take a conceptual journey, rather than a physical one, and emphasize a distinct form of artistic expression: abstraction.
We asked contributors to depart from realism and to utilize the elements of design: color, shape, texture, and form to their own end. Artists were given the liberty to create anything they desired that was abstract or metaphorical.
The hope with this book is to provide an opportunity for artists and audience to explore something new. By exploring innovative approaches, new connections and ideas can be formed. What happens when we create images that rely less on the power of description and more on efforts to evoke raw emotion? Artists have always done this to varying degrees. With the removal of representation, focus can be given more singularly to the emotional experience.
艺术，在其所有的迭代中，都是一种交流形式。 Abstraction is a natural evolution in this process. Just because you may not understand a particular language does not diminish the beauty or value of these different forms of expression. Artists can create work that does not have to rely on time or place in its creation.
That is what we hope for here, the location we explored is more of a journey than a destination. Where this journey takes you is dependent upon what you contribute to this experience. We ask the audience to suspend their comfort in the known, and then traverse into a world populated by our senses and our subconscious.
