Editing Abstract art (section)

==== Fauvism and Cubism ====
[[File:Francis Picabia - Caoutchouc.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|[[Francis Picabia]], {{Circa|1909}}, ''[[Caoutchouc (Picabia)|Caoutchouc]]'', [[Centre Pompidou]], [[Musée national d'art moderne]], Paris|left]]
At the beginning of the 20th century [[Henri Matisse]] and several other young artists including the pre-cubist [[Georges Braque]], [[André Derain]], [[Raoul Dufy]] and [[Jean Metzinger]] revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called [[Fauvism]]. The raw language of color as developed by the Fauves directly influenced another pioneer of abstraction, [[Wassily Kandinsky]].

[[Cubism]], based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to [[cube]], [[sphere]] and [[cone (geometry)|cone]] became, along with [[Fauvism]], the art movement that directly opened the door to abstraction in the early 20th century.