Wassily Kandinsky, often credited as the father of abstract art ... It gained momentum through movements like Abstract Expressionism in the mid-20th century, led by artists such as Jackson Pollock and ...

Just as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907 made Matisse's Portrait of Mme Matisse of 1905 seem passé, so Kandinsky's First Abstract Watercolor of 1910 made Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ...