What is Abstract Art?
Abstract, Non Figurative, Non Objective, Simi-Abstract, Pure Abstraction, Non-Representational:Where does one begin and the other end. "Picasso considered that there is no s_uch thing as "Abstract" painting and that all art has abstract qualities. True abstract is said to avoid representation, even of an accidental kind, or the depicting of any subject whatsoever. A painting's color, form and texture is the only concept. For this purpose this basic form of abstraction will be discussed as formalism However, most contemporary artists deal with some other kind of concept today rather than pure formalism. In order to understand the elements of color and design which is found in all painting formalism is a good beginning point.
Roots Schools and Influences Shaping Abstract Art
Fathers of Abstraction
The Trunk
The Armory Show 1913
The Branches of Abstraction
Going Abstract From Reality - Abstract to Non Objective
Abstract, Non Figurative, Non Objective, Simi-Abstract, Pure Abstraction, Non-Representational:Where does one begin and the other end. "Picasso considered that there is no s_uch thing as "Abstract" painting and that all art has abstract qualities. True abstract is said to avoid representation, even of an accidental kind, or the depicting of any subject whatsoever. A painting's color, form and texture is the only concept. For this purpose this basic form of abstraction will be discussed as formalism However, most contemporary artists deal with some other kind of concept today rather than pure formalism. In order to understand the elements of color and design which is found in all painting formalism is a good beginning point.
Roots Schools and Influences Shaping Abstract Art
Fathers of Abstraction
- Impressionism 1874
- Post Impressionism 1886
- Art from Asia
- Primitive African Sculpture
- Analytical Cubism 1910 and Synthetic Cubism
The Trunk
The Armory Show 1913
- Fauvism 1906
- Orphism 1912
- Futurism 1912
- Rayonism 1913
- Synchronists 1913
- Vortisits 1914
- De Stijl 1917
- Bauhaus 1920
- Constructivists 1920
- Neo-Plasitcists 1920
- Surrealism 1924
The Branches of Abstraction
- Non-Objectivists 1937
- Art Concrete 1945
- Abstract Impressionists 1945
- Realities Nouvelles 1949
- Abstract Expressionists 1950
- Tachisme 1955
- - COBRA group
- Colour Field Painting
- Lyrical Abstraction
- Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Hard Edge Painting - Neo-Expressionism 1970
- Minimalism school, a back-to-basics style of geometric abstraction exemplified by postmodernist artists like sculptors Donald Judd (1928-94), Sol LeWitt Noted abstract painters associated with Minimalism include Frank Stella (b.1936), Sean Scully (b.1945) , Jo Baer (b.1929), Ellsworth Kelly (b.1923), Robert Mangold (b.1937), Brice Marden (b.1938), Agnes Martin (1912-2004), and Robert Ryman (b.1930).
- Neo-Expressionism was mainly a figurative movement which emerged from the early 1980s onwards. However, it also included a number of outstanding abstract painters ; Winner Howard Hodgkin (b.1932), Georg Baselitz (b.1938), Anselm Kiefer (b.1945).
Going Abstract From Reality - Abstract to Non Objective