I lectured on 20th century art for years and in terms of accessibility I always liked to point out that there was a pretty undeniable historical overlap between

I lectured on 20th century art for years and in terms of accessibility I always liked to point out that there was a pretty undeniable historical overlap between the (re)emergence of abstraction and the appropriation of preindustrial (most notably African) abstracted art mixed with the later discovery of largely abstracted pre-agricultural / prehistoric cave paintings in Europe which I always made the case had at least the possibility of a universal accessibility because they predated evidence of organized language (although I always thought that smelled a little undisprovable). Anyway as an art-teacher-turned-dev I always like to see Hyperallergic articles pop up here but I think its worth beating the dead horse of celebrity spectaclization on this and most of their prominent articles in spite of their undeniably good work. For my money they're still the best current arts publication out there. Soapboxing a bit but Kandinsky always makes me think about the notion that art has the power to democratize civilization and empower individuals when individuals feel empowered to create art without subjugating themselves to specters of the 19th and 20th century celebrity artists. Kandinsky was a great artist, but so are the dozens of unrecognized art students that I worked with every semester for the better part of a decade. And even though I personally love Kandinsky he can also be cast as a wealthy dilettante that used his familial privilege to buy his way into a historical narrative that was propped up on a globally destructive inter-European colonial economy. The great thing about his work within that historical narrative (imho) is that it proclaims "all humans are ennobled by the inalienable creative force" not the 21st century museum gift-shop narrative of "gosh artists in the 20th century sure were the best so buy a Magritte themed skateboard deck and a Francis Bacon coffee mug". Rant over but seriously good art is all around us, especially in our own minds and hands as individual conscious entities. No hate, hyperallergic and Kandinsky are legit forever. Merry christmas. > [kandinsky bourgeois context] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theartstory.org/amp/artist/kandinsky-wassily/life-and-legacy/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theartstory.org/amp/artist/... > [african art appropriation] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%27s_African_Period https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%27s_African_Period > [abstract cave painting symbols context] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg