At the end of the Nineteenth Century, innovations in the realm of science, industry and technology provide for a collective notion of progress. The society changes radically in a short period of time, and people go in search of new forms of organisation and expression. In the spirit of a quest for the new, Modernism in art sees the light. This Modernism results in one of the most important developments in art since the Renaissance: Abstract Art. Various abstract movements develop with a new language of imagery, in which form, colour and line are central.
Already at the beginning, on the eve of the First World War, Abstract Art exists from an amalgam of overlapping, yet contrasting styles. What binds them together is the search for a radically different manner of depicting reality. People reject the traditional illusionist rendering of reality, veering away from the figurative and representation.
