http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract... <br />Art Deco https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&... <br />Audio files from Wikipedia articles by speech synthesis: http://www.pediaphon.org/ <br />Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; <br />Robert Delaunay, 1912-13, Le Premier Disque, 134 cm (52.7 in.), Private collection. <br />James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket(1874), Detroit Institute of Arts. A near abstraction, in 1877 Whistler sued the art critic John Ruskin for libel after the critic condemned this painting. Ruskin accused Whistler of "ask[ing] two hundred guineas for throwing a pot of paint in the public's face." <br />Henri Matisse, The Yellow Curtain, 1915. With his Fauvist color and drawing Matisse comes very close to pure abstraction. <br />František Kupka, Amorpha, Fugue en deux couleurs (Fugue in Two Colors), 1912, oil on canvas, 210 x 200 cm, Narodni Galerie, Prague. Published in Au Salon d'Automne "Les Indépendants"1912, Exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne, Paris. <br />Robert Delaunay, 1912, Windows Open Simultaneously (First Part, Third Motif), oil on canvas, 45.7 x 37.5 cm,Tate Modern <br />Wassily Kandinsky, On White 2, 1923 <br />Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915, The Russian Museum <br />Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart <br />The above is a 1939–42 oil on canvas painting by Mondrian titled "Composition No. 10". Responding to it, fellow De Stijlartist Theo van Doesburg suggested a link between non-representational works of art and ideals of peace and spirituality. <br />Albert Gleizes, 1910–12, Les Arbres (The Trees), oil on canvas, 41 x 27 cm. Reproduced in Du "Cubisme", 1912 <br />Arthur Dove, 1911–12, Based on Leaf Forms and Spaces, pastel on unidentified support. Now lost <br />Francis Picabia, 1912, Tarentelle, oil on canvas, 73.6 x 92.1 cm,Museum of Modern Art, New York. Reproduced in Du "Cubisme" <br />Wassily Kandinsky, 1912,Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II), oil on canvas, 47 3/8 x 55 1/4 in. (120.3 x 140.3 cm), TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show <br />Pablo Picasso, 1913–14, Head (Tête), cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard, 43.5 x 33 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh <br />Henri Matisse, 1914, French Window at Collioure, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris <br />Joseph Csaky, Deux figures, 1920, relief, limestone, polychrome, 80 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo <br />Albert Gleizes, 1921, Composition bleu et jaune (Composition jaune), oil on canvas, 200.5 x 110 cm <br />Paul Klee, Fire in the Evening, 1929 <br />Barnett Newman, Onement 1, 1948, Museum of Modern Art, New York <br />Fernand Léger 1919, The Railway Crossing, oil on canvas, 53.8 x 64.8 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago <br />Theo van Doesburg, Neo-Plasticism: 1917, Composition VII (the three graces)
