Creative heritage of Wassily Kandinsky, one of the founders of modern abstract art, attracts various experts' attention - historians, art experts, painters, philosophers; and that's not just a tribute of admiration to the master in honor of his recently celebrated 150th anniversary. The meaning of abstractionism is far beyond the aesthetic conception. Being a special style of thinking, it brings together art and science, generating a new creative method, which determined by and large all the

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... tural history of the ХХ century. However some Kandinsky's ideas saturated with metaphysical connotations require comprehension. From this perspective, a specific symbolism implementing the idea of synthesism in nonfigurative painting is of special interest. On the one hand, Kandinsky follows the established tradition of theoretical and practical search of the European philosophy of art. On the other hand, the original version of the "parallel" of sounds and "kinds" analysis allowed the artist to introduce his own "formula", preceding any imagery. The fusion of psychological, religious and metaphysical aspects of cognition realized by Kandinsky is notable for resonant forms of expressiveness. The creative breakthrough of his "abstract painting" claims to solve not only purely artistic tasks, but also the basic task of cognition, which is comprehending the Reality itself, not its "copies" presenting perceptually-based representations. Ironically, in this case Kandinsky does not disparage sensuality as it is, retaining its right to produce impressions. So the main task of abstract (non-objective) painting is to find internally inherent objects features, non-objective in themselves, but constituting the basis of objectivity, harkening back to the influence of scientific discoveries of the early twentieth century. This impact was clearly perceived and recognized by Kandinsky himself. In this sense, he is not just an artist, but one of the founders of modern metaphysics, based on a new understanding of the formal principles of b [...]