Abstract Art
Abstract is a relative concept of representation, which is getting out common points of many things, and to integrate into a new concept, and this concept is called” abstract”. “Abstract painting” generally refers to the painting style which wanted to leave the “imitate natural” in the twentieth century, and it including a number of schools, not just a name of a faction: it was a long-term sustainability evolutional from. However, regardless of their factions, their common characteristic was to try to break the traditional ideas of painting which must imitate nature. After the 1930s and World War II, the various forms that from the abstract concept has become the most popular, most unique artistic style in the twentieth century.
Abstract painting made intuition and imagination as the starting point of creation and excluded any kind of descriptive approach that with symbolic, literature, and performance, and just integrated form and color and organized them on the picture. Thus what abstract painting shows were pure form and color which similar to the music.
Abstract painting trends can be divided into: (1) a geometric abstraction (or cold abstract). This was based on Cezanne’s theory as a starting point, and then developed from Cubism, Constructivism, and neoplasticism ….,. Their characteristics had a geometry trend. The representative of this paint style could be Mondrian. (2) Lyrical abstraction or hot abstraction. This was based on Gauguin’s art concepts, and then Fauvism, Expressionism, with romantic tendencies. The Kandinsky was the representative.
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