The Avant-Garde: Abstraction, Constructivism & Early Modernism

The two decades when European painting stopped describing the world and started rebuilding it. Rayonist light from Larionov and Goncharova, Lissitzky's Proun constructions hovering between painting and architecture, Delaunay's simultaneous colour, Kupka's early pure abstraction, and the exact geometries of Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

Bold, graphic, and unafraid of a large wall. These works were made as arguments about what a picture could be, and they still read that way.