O historicismo de Kandinsky

na esteira de Hegel, com umas ressonâncias do nosso amigo Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every work of art is a child of its time ... It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own, which cannot be repeated. Effort to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child. For example, it is impossible for us to live and feel as did the ancient Greeks. For this reason those who follow Greek principles in sculpture reach only a similarity of form, while the work remains for all time without a soul.