Wassily Kandinsky: Anthropology of Vision

The article analyzes the aesthetic and anthropological project of V. Kandinsky. The author shows that Kandinsky's artistic ideas go beyond aesthetics and represent an attempt to rethink the origins of human existence and the world. V. Kandinsky is a philosopher for whom art is not a part of culture, but its foundation, and the artist is not the one who proceeds from the installation of "art for art", but the one who is called to spiritual growth and bringing harmony to the souls of people through his creations. The article draws attention to the fact that Kandinsky's concept is based on the legal principle of "looking at the person", which was close to Kandinsky as a lawyer. Based on the principle of the dominance of the inner over the outer, of content over form, Kandinsky formulates the law of inner necessity in art. Art comes from the needs of the soul, not from the absolute norm. As the world and man evolve, the truth changes, so art must respond to the current state of affairs, which means that the idea of beauty and harmony are eternally changeable. Kandinsky, contrary to popular belief, is not an anarchist in art, but, on the contrary, one who asserts in him the primacy of freedom, which in Russian culture is associated with self-restraint. New art does not abolish the old, but expands its possibilities, serving the needs of the human soul. The logic of expanding thinking in art naturally leads Kandinsky to the idea of synthesizing the arts, which can be embodied in a spiritual "greenhouse" for human perfection.