After 1919 de Maistre virtually abandoned colour-music and abstraction, though in London in 1934 he reworked some ideas.

His work underwent a radical change-one that would confound his admirers-when he abandoned abstraction decisively in 1939.

His colleagues in the School of Paris, however, considered him something of a heretic for abandoning abstraction.

Before most anyone else, he abandoned modernist dissonance and abstraction in favor of a style that delicately balanced formal integrity with popular appeal.

After abandoning gestural abstraction in the late 1980s, and with it a focus on earth tones, Stephen turned to color wholeheartedly.

During the early 1950s Dubuffet (who was always a figurative artist), and de Staël, abandoned abstraction, and returned to imagery via figuration and landscape.

In abandoning abstraction, he seems to have renounced everything he had learned about color, or perhaps it was something he couldn't handle without a scientific system.

He soon abandoned pure abstraction for figurative work with ceramic pieces bearing a Picassoid influence.

She was friends with the major painters of the era but she seems to have quickly abandoned pure abstraction in favor of a combination of abstraction and representation.

But after making his mark as a modernist, Hartley abandoned abstraction and returned to representation by 1920.