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abstract abstract art Abstract Expressionism activity aesthetic already Apollinaire architecture Bauhaus became Blaue Reiter Brancusi Breton called canvas Cezanne Cezanne's Chagall colour composition conception constructions contemporary creative Cubism Dada Delaunay Doesburg elements emotion essentially exhibition experience expression Expressionism Expressionist Fauves Fauvism feeling figure Franz Marc Gabo Gallery Gauguin geometrical Georges German Gleizes Gogh Gropius human Ibid images influence Jackson Pollock Jawlensky Jean Kandinsky Kandinsky's Klee Kokoschka landscape Leger London Malevich manifestations Marc Marcel Duchamp Matisse Max Ernst Metzinger Modern Art modern movement modern painting Mondrian Moscow motif Munich Museum of Modern nature Nolde non-objective object Oskar Kokoschka painters Paris Paul Paul Klee period Pevsner Picabia Picasso and Braque Pissarro Pollock pure reality Rewald Robert Rouault Salon Schoenmaekers sculpture sensations sense Seurat significant spiritual Stijl Still-life style Suprematism Surrealism Surrealist symbolic tendency tion unconscious vision visual Wassily Kandinsky Worringer York Yves Tanguy