Abstraction-Création was a loose association of artists formed in Paris in 1931 to counteract the influence of the powerful Surrealist group led by André Breton.
- From Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932.
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The immediate predecessor of the Abstraction-Création group was the Cercle et Carré ("Circle and Square") group, founded by Michel Seuphor and Joaquin Torres-Garcia in 1930.
Van Doesburg stayed active in art groups such as Cercle et Carré, Art Concret and Abstraction-Création, which he founded in 1931. At the end of February 1931 he was forced to move to Davos in Switzerland because of his declining health.
He was the founder of Spatialism and was closely tied to Arte Povera. In 1935 he joined the association Abstraction-Création in Paris, and from 1936 to 1949 made expressionist sculptures in ceramic and bronze.
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Abstraction-Création founded in 1931 as a more open group, provided a point of reference for abstract artists, as the political situation worsened in 1935, and artists again regrouped, many in London.
Many members of the association worked with geometric elements, often echoing the principles of Piet Mondrian's and Theo van Doesburg's group, de Stijl. The association published an important international journal, Abstraction-Création: Art ...
 See also: Abstraction, Aesthetic, Painting, Movement, School
  
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