Kandinsky's Argument

Define an art issue and describe different points of view.
“The more frightening the world becomes...the more art becomes abstract.”
Wassily Kandinsky believed that creativity is constantly changing and evolving according to political and social climate. He thought that the more obscure and complex reality becomes, so too does art - Art reflects the restlessness of the times. During Kandinsky’s lifetime, modernity everywhere was advancing constantly. Unresolved problems emerged as reality failed to exhaust the questions of life. The new 20th century man discovered a contradictory alter ego that would later be the subject for psychoanalysis. ‘Kandinsky was increasingly convinced that nature and extreme forms represented an obstacle in the
He wrote in Concerning the Spiritual in art, “Our soul is reawakening from a long period of materialism...but is still a prey to nightmare...which arises from the lack of any faith.” The theory of theosophy, which Kandinsky followed closely, supports this opinion, as do the views of the artists Alexei von Jawlensky and also Kandinsky’s philosophical writings in Concerning the Spiritual in Art.
‘In theosophy it was believed that all life is directed towards evolution, and the goal of art is to give expression to this principle... From Theosophy [he] also derived the idea that progress towards ultimate revelation comes through the balance and reconciliation of opposing forces and that this reconciliation may have to be achieved
Naturalistic objectivity no longer had any value for him. He reinvented natural physiology, applying intuition to pictorial language, so that “people could perceive the spiritual in things’ (Guerman, 1998). “After the period of materialist effort, which held the soul in check until it was shaken off by evil, the soul is emerging; purged by trials and suffering...he will endeavour to awaken subtler emotions...Noticing change in our societal or cultural ground conditions indicate the presence of a new message, that is, the effects of a new medium. Veiled in obscurity are the causes of this need to move ever upwards and forwards, by sweat of the brow, through sufferings and fears...We have before us the age of conscious creation, and this new spirit in painting is going hand in hand with the spirit of thought towards an epoch of great spiritual leaders.” In the writings of Concerning the Spiritual Art, Kandinsky explains the need to move closer towards abstraction, which would in turn bring the artist closer to spirituality. ‘Kandinsky renounced illusion, and therefore, drew closer to a higher reality’ (Guerman, 1998). Part of this abstraction was what he called the ‘inner necessity’. For Kandinsky, this meant that the artwork is born from the artist in a mystic and inscrutable way, becoming an autonomous or