Abstract - Zimmer & Rohde

Abstraction in European modern art began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this period, some artists began to move away from traditional depictions of realistic motifs and began exploring the world of abstract shapes with bold colors and lines. The emergence of cubism, pioneered by artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 1900s, broke with the traditional rules of perspective and realistic representations, offering a wholly new interpretation of objects – at least for European art.