Natalia Dumitresco was a French-Romanian abstract

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...

 painter associated with the Réalités Nouvelles salon of Paris after the Second World War, a movement influenced by the art of Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely-abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics...

 and Alberto Magnelli

Alberto Magnelli

Alberto Magnelli was an Italian modern painter who was a significant figure in the post war Concrete art movement.- Biography :...

. Other abstract expressionist painters associated with the Réalités Nouvelles include Serge Poliakoff

Serge Poliakoff

Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris .- Biography :...

 and Alexandre Istrati

Alexandre Istrati

Alexandre Istrati was a Franco-Romanian painter. He won numerous prizes, including 1953 the Prix Kandinsky.He married fellow Romanian abstract expressionist painter, Natalia Dumitresco.-External links:...

. Dumitresco later married Alexandre Istrati.

After a number of years working in black and white, she tackled the problem of colors, showing originality and a great freshness of colors in her compositions.

External links

• Artnet entry