| Nonrepresentational or nonobjective art is not an | | | | essential."Abstract art began in the avant-garde |
| invention of the twentieth century. A number of | | | | movements of the late 19th century |
| cultures, like the Islamic and Jewish, have | | | | -Impressionism, neo-Impressionism, and |
| developed over the centuries a high standard of | | | | post-Impressionism. These painting styles reduced |
| decorative or non-figurative art forms. Today, | | | | the importance of the original subject matter and |
| abstract art is generally understood to be the | | | | began to emphasize the creative process of |
| form of art that does not depict objects in the | | | | painting itself. As artists in Europe at the early |
| natural world, but instead uses shapes and colors | | | | twentieth century "broke free" from the |
| in a nonrepresentational or subjective | | | | conventional representational rules art forms had |
| way.According to art experts, in its purest form | | | | to follow, figurative abstractions, or simplifications |
| in Western art, an abstract art is one without a | | | | of reality, where detail is eliminated from |
| recognizable subject, one which does not relate to | | | | recognizable objects leaving only the essence or |
| something external. This type of ornamental art, | | | | some degree of recognizable form, became |
| without figurative representation occurs today in | | | | popular increasing the variations of art forms and |
| many cultures. As the modern abstract | | | | view points. With different abstract styles, like |
| movement in sculpture and paining emerged in | | | | Synchronism and Orphism, abstract art |
| Europe and North America between 1910 and | | | | emphasized on color over form, on feelings over |
| 1920, two approaches have been generally | | | | logic. The action painting of an American Abstract |
| accepted to produce different abstract styles: | | | | Expressionist, Jackson Pollock, who dripped, |
| images that have been "abstracted" from nature | | | | dropped, smeared, spattered, or thrown paint on |
| to the point where they no longer reflect a | | | | the canvas, is a good example of such a |
| conventional reality, and nonobjective, or "pure" | | | | tremendous change in art focus and |
| art forms, which do not share any reference to | | | | technique.After the introduction of technology and |
| reality. A further distinction tends to be made | | | | the mass utilization of software programs that |
| between abstract art which is geometric, such as | | | | assisted people "play around" with their own |
| the work of Piet Mondrian, and abstract art that | | | | photographs, paintings or other art forms, |
| is more fluid, such as in the works of Wassily | | | | abstract art has gained more popularity than ever |
| Kandinsky. It was Kandinsky who once said that | | | | before. But although being able to draw well is not |
| "of all arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It | | | | an issue anymore, as Kandinsky pointed out, being |
| demands that you know to draw well, that you | | | | a "true" poet is what still separates the amateur |
| have a heightened sensitivity for composition and | | | | attempts to create abstract art from the |
| of colors, and that you are a true poet; this last is | | | | artifacts of a true talent. |