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In Western art history, the break from the notion that a painting had to represent something happened in the early 20th century. [[Impressionism]], [[Fauvism]], [[Cubism]] and other art movements of the time all contributed by breaking the "rules" of art followed since The Renaissance. [http://painting.about.com/od/abstractart/a/abstract_art.htm]
In Western art history, the break from the notion that a painting had to represent something happened in the early 20th century. [[Impressionism]], [[Fauvism]], [[Cubism]] and other art movements of the time all contributed by breaking the "rules" of art followed since The Renaissance. [http://painting.about.com/od/abstractart/a/abstract_art.htm]
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in 1910. [[Wassily Kandinsky]] wrote an essay called Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which described his journey from painting naturalistic landscapes to painting abstract works. In it, he writes that painting, like music, should not be a description of the external world, but rather contains its own reality, which comes from the 'inner necessity' of the artist - the inner artistic vision. <ref> [http://www.ndoylefineart.com/gorky.html Artist Profile: Arshile Gorky.] </ref>
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