Why did the author use kandinsky in the book?

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in the book my name is asher lev, why did the author use kandinsky in the book, and how does it relate to asher?
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Answer by angela l
Here is the connection: in the book the sculptor Jacob Kahn tells his young protégé, the Chassidic artist Asher Lev that there are two ways of painting the world.”In the whole history of art, there are only these two ways. One is the way of Greece and Africa, which sees the world as a geometric design. The other is the way of Persia and India and China, which sees the world as a flower. Ingres, Cézanne, Picasso paint the world as geometry. Van Gogh, Renoir, Kandinsky, Chagall paint the world as a flower.”
Kandinsky said approximately the same thing in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)/ He spoke of two great signposts pointing towards a great end: he gave Picasso as an example of an artist using form in a his art (in the book this is called geometric design) and the painter Matisse as representing color (“the world as a flower”).

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