The complex ideas of culture of the silver age and their realization in the works of Vasily Kandinsky

The article analyzes the causes of the actualization in the culture of the Silver century, the idea of conciliarity, national idea and the idea of immortality. The author proposes to identify and consider the avant-garde, art Nouveau and symbolism as a subculture within Russian artistic culture at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, since the very Genesis of these phenomena is associated with other aesthetic traditions that are different from the orientations of the artistic trends of the second half of the XIX century. The article identifies the reasons for the collapse of the old value systems and describe vectors of search art intelligentsia in building a new axiology. In addition, the author traces the correlation between the principles of creativity of V. V. Kandinsky and complex ideas of the Silver age, the aspirations of the artist and trends of the era, sees the emergence of the concept of a painter, reveals its philosophical foundations, and ethical orientation, providentialism.