The art of the era of Symbolism was to influence several artistic movements in the 20th Century. A number of artists moved directly to Expressionism, or one of the movements related to it. Several artists, including Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich moved quickly to experiments in Abstraction . Symbolism influenced Gustav Klimt and other artists associated with Art Nouveau. And in the late 1920s, the art of the Symbolists helped to found a new movement of Surrealism