Famous Abstract Artists That Changed The Way We Think About Painting
January 20, 2021Abstract art switched from mere visual representation of the world to the painting as a bearer of the spiritual dimensions and transcendental experiences.
Neoplasticism of DeStijl group, and especially Piet Mondrian, was the example of the avant-garde geometric abstraction with the theosophical background. The avant-garde artists from Soviet Russia along with architects and designers from Netherlands and Germany as well as from the other European countries, gathered in newly formed Bauhaus school in Germany, with their exploration in visual and plastic arts, significantly contributed to the rise of abstract painting in the first decades of the 20th century. Artists associated to the school of Bauhaus included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Theo van Doesburg, László Moholy-Nagy and many more. With the rise of Nazism in Germany, many of abstract artists moved to United States or other unoccupied territories in Europe. In first postwar years, New York became art capital of the world and new modern language of abstraction blossomed in United States. In work of
