Abstract art the basis of a new visual art, later to be developed into Cubism by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Post Impressionism as practiced by Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne had an enormous impact on 20th-century art and led to the advent of 20th-century abstraction. The heritage of painters like Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Seurat was essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubist Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world
Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century on page 138 of Hélène-Andrée Bizier's Une Histoire du Québec en photos (2006, Éditions Fides). The swastika was also used as border art for the weekly pet health column in the "Calgary Herald" newspaper in the early years of the 20th century. The Danish brewery company Carlsberg Group used the swastika as a logo from the 19th century until the middle of the 1930s, when it was discontinued because of association with the Nazi Party in neighbouring Germany. However, the swastika carved on elephants at the entrance gates of the company's headquarters in Copenhagen in 1901 can still be seen