抽象主义起始于上个世纪的欧洲,起初由康定斯基所提出。20世纪初,欧洲正处于“世纪末”颓唐神秘的文化氛围中,知识分子与艺术家普遍对现世表示厌恶与逃避,而去寻求心灵的自我完善。叔本华与尼采成为知识界瞩目的人物,他们哲学中的神秘主义因素被当做精神的庇护所。作为一名俄裔艺术家,康定斯基在个人创作中深受俄国传统神秘文化的影响,在抽象主义绘画中实现了不同时期、不同程度的抽象表现。在他的《论艺术中的精神》论述中,抽象主义作为现实主义 Abstractism started in Europe in the last century and was first proposed by Kandinsky. At the beginning of the 20th century, Europe was in the mysterious cultural atmosphere of “the end of the century”, and intellectuals and artists generally expressed their aversion and evasion to the present world, and sought the spiritual self-improvement. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche have become the eyes of intellectuals, and the mysticism in their philosophy is taken as a moral sanctuary. As a Russian artist, Kandinsky was deeply influenced by Russian traditional mysterious culture in his personal creation, and realized abstract performance in different periods and degrees in abstract painting. In his discourse on the Spirit in Art, abstractism is taken as realism