Form Kant to Kandinsky:Four Paradigms of Artistic Priori Formalism

This paper gives an analysis of the history of Western aesthetics by focusing on the ideas and approaches of Kant,Jung,Arnheim and Kandinsky,and discuses the four kinds of priori paradigms of artistic form,that is,priori form,prototypical form,Gestalt form and abstract form in the hope of interpreting the priori layout,foundation and texture of art formalism.