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Abstract Art

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




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