Paul Cézanne "The Mont Sainte-Victiore" -1887

“There is a colour logic… The painter must obey it and nothing else.” - quote Paul Cézanne

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Collection: The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London

Käthe Kollwitz "Woman with Dead Child" - 1903

 

“Ideas and emotions will in the end be prisoners in the artwork. Whatever they do, they can’t escape from the picture.”

– Picasso ‘conversation at Boisgeloup’, 1935

Käthe (Schmidt) Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945), “Woman with Dead Child” - 1903 etching

Kandinsky 'first abstract watercolor' 1910

“The tendency toward abstraction is the consequence of man’s deep turmoil in confronting the world,” writes Wilhelm Worringer. “Ruined by the presumption to know, modern men finds himself as helpless as primitive man before the image of the world.”

Wassily Kandinsky Untitled (First abstract watercolor painted at age 44 !) 1910; Munich / Monaco, Germany

Media: watercolor, paper - Dimensions: 196 x 188 cm / Collection: Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France

Picasso 'Glass of Absinthe' - 1914

“How can you expect an onlooker to live an artwork of mine as I lived it?”

– Picasso ‘conversation at Boisgeloup’, 1935

Jackson Pollock 'Convergence' - 1952

“To understand art depends upon the ability of the individual to perceive essentials, to perceive that which is called universally significant, and to evaluate the unity and relationship that is contained in any work.” – American Abstract Artist, Editorial Statement, 1938

Jackson Pollock, American, 1912-1956, Convergence, 1952, Oil on canvas, 93-1/2 x 155", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., Gift of Seymour H. Knox Jr., 1956, © 2008 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

"Abstract art has found the unexpected confirmation in atomic physics. All the material is dissolved in forces." - Dr. K. Farner, 1964 'Uprising in abstract art'