Arthur Dove was an abstract nature painter whose work was radically different and underappreciated in the American art scene.[1] In fact, Dove was the first American artist to paint in an entirely abstract manner. [2] He painted a set of six abstract works around 1910, prior to the European artist Wassily Kandinsky’s famous abstract compositions. [3] Kandinsky’s abstract work, however, complemented the cultural context in Europe, and was therefore appreciated. Dove’s work had no similar cultural context in America. [4]Overall, Dove's abstract paintings did nothing to change Amercican art. His work was not once but twice orphaned: by the general indifference of the Amercican public, and by his own reclusive nature. Nevertheless, Dove's abstract paintings remain interesting compositions on nature.Dove once wrote, “I would like to make something that is real in itself, or to be real without looking like something else, that does not remind anyone of any other thing, and that does not have to be explained, like the letter A for instance
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