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Abstract art is one of the major forms of art design in modern artwork. The idea is to simplify or exaggerate an object or form. It has existed at least since the Renaissance era although some historians point to early work during the Neolithic era on cave walls as abstract art. The most popular varieties of abstract are landscape and... more »
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Art historians often divide modern art into categories of figurative/representational and abstract art. Although they are by no means mutually exclusive, figurative art is made with the intention of representing a likeness. When painting a traditional portrait or still-life, for example, the artist tries to make a copy of what he... more »
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Abstract art is a subjective medium that allows artists to depart from reality. Abstract art...
Abstract art is a large umbrella under which many kinds of art lay. Here are several kinds of abstract art, along with some key artists in each... more »
Abstract art is different from most art. It is not as much about the subject as about the feeling it invokes. Interpreting abstract art takes more... more »
The Modern Art era began in the 1890s. Even after the rise of Postmodernism in the 1940s, some artists continued to work with Modern styles and... more »
Alberto Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, now part of Stampa, a municipality of Switzerland near the Italian border. He first studied art in... more »
Action painting differs from traditional brush-on-canvas art. It is a dynamic style of applying paint spontaneously. The paint is literally... more »
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.Rudolph Arnheim, Visual Thinking Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. The arts of cultures other than the European had become accessible and showed alternative ways of describing visual experience to the artist. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. The sources from which individual artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and reflected the social and intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time. Mel Gooding, Abstract Art, Tate Publishing, London, 2000
Abstract art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art, are loosely related terms. They are of similar, although perhaps not identical meaning.
Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive. Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. In geometric abstraction, for instance, one is unlikely to find references to naturalistic entities. Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. But figurative and representational (or realistic) art often contains partial abstraction.
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