Abstract expressionism in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky. Technically, an important predecessor is surrealism, with its emphasis on spontaneous, automatic, or subconscious creation. Jackson Pollock's dripping paint onto a canvas laid on the floor is a technique that has its roots in the work of André Masson, Max Ernst, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The newer research tends to put the exile-surrealist Wolfgang Paalen in the position of the artist and theoretician who fostered the theory of the viewer-dependent possibility space through his paintings and his magazine "DYN". Paalen considered ideas of quantum mechanics, as well as idiosyncratic interpretations of
Portrait of Jack Hunter personal meeting with Feshin took place. Fechin expressed a wish to paint a portrait of Jack R. Hunter in gratitude for his help with moving artist family's to America and it's was done. Since 1923 until recently "The Portrait of Jack R. Hunter" was kept in the family of a collector. In 1958 soon after artist dead Jack Hunter wrote the memories of Fechin at the request of the daughter of the artist Iya Nikolaevna Feshin-Branham. In the middle of 2010 "Portrait of Jack R. Hunter" appeared in the art market and was put up for sale by one of