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Altho it would be foolhardy to claim, without statistical evidence, that abstract art is becoming more prevalent these days, it still appears so from this season's exhibitions. During the last few weeks we have been able to study such long established figures in the realm of abstract art as Miro, Kandinsky, and Feininger.Of the three, Lyonel Feininger is the least purely abstract. He has as a matter of fact never broken from nature and has merely allowed his vision of nature to be influenced by certain by-products of the development of abstract art. The retrospective exhibition of his work at the Buchholz and Willard Galleries affords one an opportunity of reviewing his long career. His early paintings show the influence of the “jugend style” and the caricature of the Simplicissimus group which in its stylization and its biting linear style prepared him for both Cubism and Klee. Actually the bulk of his artistic output is dependent upon these two latter influences, the first of which—simple planimetrie cubism—is at the basis of his picture organization.