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The main abstract art movements
during the 19th century were
Romanticism, Impressionism, and
Expressionism. Artists
became more independent. Bold use of paint surface
was popular, along with drawing distortions and
exaggerations, and use of intense color. Artists
Abstract art was formed by artists breaking the rules of art
followed since the Renaissance. It is a term for art that is non-
objective, non-figurative, or non-representational. It does not
portray recognizable objects or scenes. The basic idea of
abstract art is that formal qualities are just as important as
representational qualities. Abstract artists tend to exaggerate or
simplify the forms of the painting, where color and form is often
In the 20th century, abstract art
became widely accepted. Many
more artists began abandoning
the established Western
conventions and rules of imitating
nature, and instead began
experimenting and developing
new artistic forms and
expressions. Towards the
beginning of the century, Paris art
was revolutionized by Henri
Matisse, pre-cubist Georges
Braque, and other artists with
Fauvism, an art movement that
featured wild multi-coloured
expressive landscapes and figure
paintings. Cubism was the main
art movement of abstraction. The
first Cubist painting was paintedby Pablo Picasso, and was based
on his idea that all depiction of
nature can be reduced to solids of
cubes, spheres, cones.
The 21st century featured many
more types of abstract because
of development in technology.
One of the popular art
movements is Pop Art. In the 21st
century, the idea of anything
goes is prominent, meaning that
there are no rules and anything
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Picasso and Braque first developed this semi-
abstract style in France 1907, where their
paintings were fragmented natural images.
Cubism was pushed to
complete abstraction in 1912 by Robert Delaunay. It is the first abstract
style of modern art. In Cubism, objects are broken up, analysed, and then
re-assembled to create an abstract form. The artist ignores rules and
traditions of perspective drawing and depicts the subject from multipleviewpoints. Cubists drew inspiration from other cultures and worked with
expressive energy. There are two phases of Cubism: Analytic and
Neoplasticism, also known
as De Stjil, is a movement of
abstract art that uses only
straight lines and
rectangular forms. It is
greatly influenced by
Cubism and mysticism and
ideas about geometric forms
like the perfect straight
line. Neoplastic paintings
avoid symmetry, but achieve
balance by using opposition.
It is a Dutch artistic
movement found in 1917
which uses geometry as a
fundamental principle.
Neoplasticism expresses
Abstract Expressionism is the first American art movement to
influence globally. The movement draws inspiration from
Kandinsky, Surrealism, and a range of dramatic painting
techniques. It can also be called Action Painting, which implies
that the act of painting is as important as the result itself.
Abstract Ex ressionism features aintin s from a wide variet of
Mark Rothko, No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta,
Black, Green on Orange), 1949, 85
3/8 x 65, oil on canvas, Museum of
Modern Art.
Les Demoiselles dAvignon
(1907), Museum of Modern
Art, New York.
Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950
(Lavender Mist),1950, National Gallery
of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Piet Mondrian, Composition with
Yellow, Blue, and Red, 1937-42, oil
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Wassily Kandinsky is generally known as the first abstract artist. His work
moved gradually towards total abstraction. He has influenced many other
younger European artists.
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One of the major reasons art changed was the
invention of the camera. Before the camera, family
photos were painted instead of photographed. When
the camera was invented, the need to paint realisticallygradually disappeared. Because of this, artists began
experimenting with new things and breaking the
standard rules of Western art that stated art needed to
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Sofsian, Damian. "History Of Abstract Art." Ezine Articles. 7 Jan. 2007. Web. 25 Jan.
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