The Age of Anxiety, the time between World War I and World War II, was a time filled with many cultural changes. Prior and during World War I, artists used reality and scenes in front of them as a huge influence on their paintings. Many focused on the light and shadows of the object or scene in front of them, instead of how the scene made them feel. Though many artists aesthetic was the cultural norms of creating impressionist paintings, Wassily Kandinsky fathered a new, extreme cubist aesthetic. He disregarded nature in his paintings and painted how music made him feel. His use of feeling and thought instead of concrete objects was one way Kandinsky changed interwar art styles.

Kandinsky was painting abstract art before world war one. While