need to "express what is peculiar to art in general." The third element is the immortal part of art, the "pure and eternally artistic" that exists in all art and transcends the limitations of time and place. The greatness of a work of art or an individual artist depends on the extent to which this element is present in his work. Kandinsky warned, however, that it often was not until the importance of the subjective elements (that is, the personal and temporal necessities) had faded that audiences were able to detect the pure element in many great works of art. Yet art develops in the way it does because of the ability of this pure eternal art element to break free of the constraints of the two subjective necessities. As Kandinsky summed it up, inner necessity results in "the advancing expression of the external-objective in terms of the temporal-subjective."
Kandinsky believed that non-objective art was the medium in which artists could express the inner necessity and arrive at the pure and eternally artistic in their work. He did not offer
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