Cubism is an important developmentĀ in freeing painting from traditional representational depiction. The coming decades of painting will be a wealth of exploration of levels of abstraction and focus on how painting uniquely articulates formal aspects like color, line, and the flatness of the two-dimensional pictorial surface.
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- Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913. Authored by: Beth Harris, Steven Zucker, and Julia Kreinik. Provided by: Khan Academy. Located at: https://youtu.be/i16sGRY7SZ4. Project: Smarthistory, Art History at Khan Academy. License: CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Introduction to video on Wassily Kandinsky and Abstract Expressionism. Authored by: Wendy Riley. Provided by: Columbia Basin College. License: CC BY: Attribution