Once upon a time, in a world filled with landscapes, portraits, and still-life paintings, artists dedicated their lives to capturing reality as accurately as possible. For centuries, art was expected to mirror nature—to be a window into the world. Kings, nobles, and scholars admired painters who could recreate the human form, the glow of candlelight, or the vastness of the sea with stunning precision. But then, something began to change. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the world was evolving rapidly. Machines roared to life in factories, cities grew taller, and people began to see the world differently. Science and technology were advancing, and with them, new ideas about reality and perception emerged. Artists started asking themselves: "What if art doesn’t have to show the world as it looks? What if it could express the world as it feels?" A painter named Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first to take this bold step. He believed that colors and shapes could spe...
