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==== Early Abstractabstract Artart ====

One socio-historical explanation that has been offered for the growing prevalence of the abstract in modern art – anart—an explanation linked to the name of [[Theodor W. Adorno]] – is—is that such abstraction is a response to, (and a reflection of,) the growing abstraction of social relations in [[industrial society]].<ref>David Cunningham, 'Asceticism Against Colour', in ''New Formations'' 55 (2005) p. 110</ref>

[[Frederic Jameson]] similarly sees modernist abstraction as a function of the abstract power of money, equating all things equally as exchange-values.<ref>M. Hardt/K. Weeks eds., ''The Jameson Reader'' (2000) p. 272</ref> The social ''content'' of abstract art is then precisely the abstract nature of social existence – legalexistence—legal formalities, bureaucratic impersonalization, information/power – inpower—in the world of [[late modernity]].<ref>Cunningham, p. 114</ref>

By contrast, [[Analytical psychology#Post-Jungian approaches|Post-Jungians]] by contrast would see the quantum theories with their disintegration of conventional ideas of form and matter as underlying the divorce of the concrete and the abstract in modern art.<ref>Aniela Jaffé, in C. G. Jung ed., ''Man and his Symbols'' (1978) pp. 288–89, 303</ref>

File:Albert Gleizes, 1910-12, Les Arbres, oil on canvas, 41 x 27 cm. Reproduced in Du "Cubisme", 1912.jpg|[[Albert Gleizes]], 1910–1912, ''Les Arbres (The Trees)'', 1910-12, oil on canvas, 41 × 27&nbsp;cm. Reproduced in ''[[Du "Cubisme"]]'', 1912

File:Arthur Dove, 1911-12, Based on Leaf Forms and Spaces, pastel on unidentified support. Now lost.jpg|[[Arthur Dove]], 1911–12, ''Based on Leaf Forms and Spaces'', 1911-12, pastel on unidentified support. Now(now lost)

File:Francis Picabia, 1912, Tarentelle, oil on canvas, 73.6 x 92.1 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York.jpg|[[Francis Picabia]], 1912, ''Tarentelle'', 1912, oil on canvas, 73.6 × 92.1&nbsp;cm, [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York. Reproduced in ''[[Du "Cubisme"]]''

File:Vassily Kandinsky, 1912 - Improvisation 27, Garden of Love II.jpg|[[Wassily Kandinsky]], 1912, ''Improvisation 27'' (''Garden of Love'' II), 1912, oil on canvas, 120.3 × 140.3&nbsp;cm, The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York. Exhibited at the 1913 [[Armory Show]]

File: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.jpg|[[Pablo Picasso]], 1913–14, ''Head'' (''Tête''), 1913-14, cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard, 43.5 × 33&nbsp;cm, [[Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art]], Edinburgh

File:Porte-Fenetre a Collioure 1914.jpg|[[Henri Matisse]], 1914, ''French Window at Collioure'', 1914, [[Centre Georges Pompidou]], Paris

File:Hilma af Klint Svanen.jpg|[[Hilma af Klint]], ''Svanen'' (''The Swan''), October 1914-March 1915, No. 17, Group IX, Series SUW, October 1914–March 1915. This(this abstract work was never exhibited during af Klint's lifetime.)

File:Theo van Doesburg Composition VII (the three graces).jpg|[[Theo van Doesburg]], [[Neo-Plasticism]]: 1917, ''Composition VII'' (''The Three Graces''), 1917, [[neoplasticism]]

File:Leger railway crossing.jpg|[[Fernand Léger]] 1919, ''The Railway Crossing'', 1919, oil on canvas, 53.8 × 64.8&nbsp;cm, [[The Art Institute of Chicago]]

File:Albert Gleizes, 1921, Composition bleu et jaune (Composition jaune), oil on canvas, 200.5 x 110 cm DSC00547.jpg|[[Albert Gleizes]], 1921, ''Composition bleu et jaune'' (''Composition jaune''), 1921, oil on canvas, 200.5 × 110&nbsp;cm

File:Carlsund Rapid (1930).jpg|[[Otto Gustaf Carlsund]], ''Rapid'', (1930), a [[Concreteconcrete Artart]] restaurant mural, Stockholm