Editing Abstract art (section)

==== Music ====
As visual art becomes more abstract, it develops some characteristics of music{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}: an art form which uses the abstract elements of sound and divisions of time. [[Wassily Kandinsky]], himself an amateur musician,<ref>Shawn, Allen. 2003. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=qgqp5-EqEw8C&pg=PA62 Arnold Schoenberg's Journey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115061553/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Arnold_Schoenberg_s_Journey/qgqp5-EqEw8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA62&printsec=frontcover |date=2023-01-15 }}''. Harvard University Press. p. 62. {{ISBN|0-674-01101-5}}</ref><ref>François Le Targat, ''Kandinsky'', Twentieth Century masters series, Random House Incorporated, 1987, p. 7, {{ISBN|0-8478-0810-6}}</ref><ref>Susan B. Hirschfeld, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Hilla von Rebay Foundation, ''Watercolors by Kandinsky at the Guggenheim Museum: a selection from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Hilla von Rebay Foundation'', 1991. In 1871 the family moved to Odessa, where the young Kandinsky attended the Gymnasium and learned to play the cello and piano.</ref> was inspired by the possibility of marks and associative color ''resounding in the soul.'' The idea had been put forward by [[Charles Baudelaire]], that all our senses respond to various stimuli but the senses are connected at a deeper aesthetic level.

Closely related to this, is the idea that art has ''The spiritual dimension'' and can transcend 'every-day' experience, reaching a spiritual plane. The [[Theosophical Society]] popularized the ancient wisdom of the sacred books of India and China in the early years of the century. It was in this context that [[Piet Mondrian]], Wassily Kandinsky, [[Hilma af Klint]] and other artists working towards an 'objectless state' became interested in the occult as a way of creating an 'inner' object.
The universal and timeless shapes found in [[geometry]]: the circle, square and triangle become the spatial elements in abstract art; they are, like color, fundamental systems underlying visible reality.