Moving Towards Abstraction in Both Verbal and Visual Narratives Examining the Opening Scene of the Blind Owl and Kandinsky's Abstract Painting

This article is an intertextual study that investigates the similarities between the blind owl as the initiator of the modern Persian story and Wassily Kandinsky's abstract painting and how the sensory-perceptual layer works in them And it shows the similarity between the opening scene of the blind owl and the beginning of Wassily Kandinsky's abstract art that he himself described; with the aim of studying the blind owl as an "in-text", i.e. a text that reflects the presence of other texts. Kandinsky, who is one of the founders of abstract art, is one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century, and Sadegh Hedayat is also a famous writer in Iranian and world literature. In the present article, which was conducted using the qualitative matching method, the results of the research show a similarity in the beginning of the creation of verbal art (the story of the blind owl) and the creation of visual art (Kandinsky's painting), which marks the movement towards abstraction. This movement in both arts begins with a revelation that Light plays an essential role in it and in both, what is pleasurable for the subject is to get away from reality, and this is rooted in the critical aspect of the blind owl and Kandinsky's art.