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They knew, too, that artists in Russia at that time and the Netherlands had quickly realized that the Cubist formalization of basic elements of color, line and space implied the possibility of a completely nonrepresentational painting.

His nonrepresentational abstract paintings are too vague and poorly realized., however, his more emotionally charged landscape paintings are quite powerful.

Parallel to this development, nonrepresentational painting began to gain a foothold in works that centered on geometric shapes and their relationships to one another in the picture (e.g. Planar Relation of 1920).

And the Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb chimed in, "We're going to have perhaps a thousand years of nonrepresentational painting now."

The viewer is invited to interpret the ballet as he would a nonrepresentational painting.

IN the late 1950's, the Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb said, "We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of nonrepresentational painting. . . . Abstraction is not a limitation but a liberation."

"Curators are really tapped into the local scene, where interest in abstract or nonrepresentational painting has been especially strong."

Take Cathleen Burton's three mixed media, nonrepresentational paintings.

But in "Abstract Composition" (1913), probably one of the earliest completely nonrepresentational paintings of the 20th century, he reduces the world to transparent spheres of radiant color.