Abstract (Latin abstractio - removal, diversion) - the direction of non-figurative art, who refused to approximate to the real image forms in painting and sculpture. One of the purposes of abstract art - the achievement of "harmonization", the creation of certain color combinations and geometric shapes to cause the spectator various associations. Founders: Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Piet Mondrian. The first abstract painting was Kandinsky at the end of the 1900s. At present, it is in the National Museum of Georgia. In painting, Russia XX century were the main representatives of abstract art Wassily Kandinsky (completed in Germany go to his abstract compositions), Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, founded in 1910-1912. "Rayonism" and founder of Suprematism as a new type of art Kazimir Malevich, the author of the famous "Black Square". A related passage is cubism abstract art that seeks to portray the real objects of the set of intersecting planes that create the image of some rectilinear shapes that mimic the living nature. One of the most striking examples were the early Cubist works by Pablo Picasso.
