"Russia's modern abstraction of secondary importance to define"

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Сообщение от Tjutchev

If we follow your logic, then the whole world is secondary Russian abstract art abstract art!

To be fair to say that this is not Frosina logic. This conclusion is in the 1960's came Camilla Gray. This is in the book "The Great Experiment» (The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863 - 1922) wrote that turns all the modern (s) to the Western variety of abstraction were invented by Russian in 20-ies.
Unfortunately, this monograph has never been translated into Russian. But thanks to this book, stop talking "secondary" of Russian art in comparison with western Europe. And in fact wrote her English scholar (herself - a very interesting character), for which a low bow to her.

Сообщение от Pavel

I heard that Kandinsky was a mathematician and his abstraction is mathematically constructed compositions.

Paul! Vasily Kandinsky graduated from the Moscow Imperial University, and at the end even got the chair - well, probably, went to college! But all the cast and went to school Aschbe to study painting. Here's how born abstract ...