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Abstract art is
art that doesn't depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses colour and form in a non-representational way. In the very early
20th century, the term was more often used to describe art, such as
Cubist and
Futurist art, that depicts real forms in a simplified or rather reduced way—keeping only an allusion to the original natural subject. Such paintings were often claimed to capture something of the depicted objects' immutable
intrinsic qualities rather than its external
appearance. (See
abstraction.) The
more precise terms, "non-figurative art," "non-objective art," and "non-representational art" avoid any possible ambiguity.
History
The most common understanding of abstract art is as a phenomenon of 20th century.
Abstract painting appeared at virtually the same time (ca. 1911) across the borders and continents of the cultures actively participating in Western culture. For this reason, it isn't clear who the first Modernist abstract painter was: it could have been Robert Delaunay in Paris; or the American Arthur Dove; the Russians Wassily Kandinsky or Kasimir Malevich; the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian; Franz Kupka, Balla in Italy or many others. Rather than an invention of an individual, abstraction in Modernist painting appeared as a cultural phenomenon.
Some argue that non-objective art isn't an invention of the 20th century — that humans have made non-objective art since they first drew pictures in the dirt. In the Islamic religion the depiction of humans isn't allowed, and consequently the Islamic culture developed a high standard of
decorative arts.
Calligraphy is also a form of non-figurative art.
Constructivism (1915) and
De Stijl (1917) were parallel movements which took abstraction into the three dimensions of sculpture and architecture. The Constructivists believed that the artist's work was a revolutionary activity, to express the aspirations of the people, using machine production, graphic and photographic means of communication. Some of the American
Abstract expressionists are purely abstract and include:
Barnett Newman,
Mark Rothko,
Willem de Kooning,
Jackson Pollock,
Franz Kline, and
Hans Hofmann.
Op Art (1962) and
Minimalism (1965) were two recent idioms.
Gallery
Image:Newman-Onement 1.jpg|Barnett Newman, Onement1
Image:PollockTela.jpg|Jackson Pollock, Composition no. 16
Image:Mondrian Comp10.jpg|Piet Mondrian, Composition No. 10
Image:Theo van Doesburg Counter-CompositionV (1924).jpg|Theo van Doesburg Counter-Composition V
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