Foremost is the museum's founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861 — 1949), who with support from his trusted advisor, the German - born artist Hilla Rebay (1890 — 1967), set aside a more traditional collecting focus to become a great champion of nonobjective art — a strand of abstraction with spiritual aims and epitomized by the work of Vasily Kandinsky. (64.207.187.217)
In the clean white cube of the gallery, these pulsating paintings might, at first, seem consistent with nonobjective art as we know it (based on description alone, the Op art of Bridget Riley may come to mind, or Yayoi Kusama's «Infinity Nets»). (brooklynrail.org)
PS: Related articles at Deutsche Bank Artmag: Friedhelm Hütte on Imi Knoebel's importance for nonobjective art; Jörg Heiser on Imi Knoebel's use of the series form and his celebration of color; «The Security of the Pure Square» — Karola Krauss on Imi Knoebel. (vernissage.tv)