Abstract The Salon des Réalités Nouvelles was a Paris group that promoted geometric abstract art during the post-WWII period.  The salon, or exhibiting society, was formed in 1946 and is seen as a continuation of "Abstraction-Création: art non figuratif," which was a loose ensemble of proponents of abstract art that formed in 1931 to offer an alternative to the figurative/representational tendencies of André Breton's Surrealists.  The Salon took its name and original direction from a 1939 exhibition...