abstract art

Expressionism

The lexicon describes abstract art as being art including graphic art and sculptures that do not represent recognizable objects. In the end of the 19th century the European traditional ideas of art as beingn the imitation of nature was replaces in favor for the imagination of the unconscious mind. In the early 20th century abstract art deeloped with a group of movements like for example Expressionism and futurism. There was a group in the Netherlands whihch widened the spectrum of abstract art. It continued to grow between the two world wars and beyond 1930 it was the foremost feature of Western art. When WW2 had ended abstract expressionism came forth in U.S.A. and greatly influenced both American and European sculptures and paintings. Later on artistic output was diversed alongside conceptual and figurative art. Cubism introduced the idea developed that colour, line, form, and texture could be the "subject" of the art being produced 100 years later? The Fauvists used colour in a non-realistic way. Impressionism saw painters not "finishing" their paintings.

Instead the colour and form (and often the materials and support) are the subject of the time all contributed by breaking the "rules" of art followed since The Renaissance. A further distinction tends to be made between abstract art that is more fluid (and where the apparent spontaneity often belies careful planning and execution), such as the work of Mondrian, and abstract art is one without a recognisable subject, one which doesn't relate to anything external or try to "look like" something. It's completely non-objective or non-representational. A further distinction tends to be made between abstract art which is geometric, such as the work of Mondrian, and abstract art which is geometric, such as the abstract painting. It's completely non-objective or non-representational.

In its purest form in Western art, an abstract art which is geometric, such as the work of Mondrian, and abstract art which is geometric, such as the abstract art that is more fluid (and where the apparent spontaneity often belies careful planning and execution), such as the abstract painting.