Abstract Art Works

Abstract art has become a major movement of the 20th century. However the signs of this kind of art appeared long before modern times, the paintings, geometric and linear forms of pottery, textiles of the earliest people, Chinese and Islamic calligraphy are considered the first marks of abstract art. In the 19th century several artistic movements appeared which contributed much into the development of Abstract art: Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Expressionism. To the number 10 Abstract Impressionist list the following artists are included: Monet, Sam Francis, Patrick Heron, Nicolas de Staël, Manessier and some other French abstract painters. One of the first stages of Abstract art development was emphasis put on visual sensation rather than the depiction of objects ( James McNeill Whistler), next were the works of John Constable, J.M.W Turner, Camille Corot with their objective interest in what is seen, etc.

In 20th century Western painting, Fauvism, and Cubism appeared to open the door to abstraction. Abstract art drawings of the 21th century continues in several contiguous modes. Contemporary abstract painting became also characterized by the idea of pluralism. Today's Abstract art works includes not paintings only, but also a few directions Digital art, Computer art, Internet art, Photorealism, Minimalism, Lyrical Abstraction, Pop art, Op art and a number of other continuing styles. Abstraction of the 21th century involves plethora of artists: painters and sculptures. After the war figurative art and abstraction became closer and artists obtained a wider range of ideas.

Abstract art drawings are a visual language of form, color and line. This art appeared because the artists of the 19th century many artists needed to create a new kind of art that fit technological, scientific and philosophical significant changes. Abstract art works became a departure from reality, such painting bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. Abstraction art likewise other movements contains some currents within it: Geometric abstraction (has references to naturalistic entities), Figurative art and total abstraction which are almost mutually exclusive (Figurative art contains partial abstraction).

Abstract expressionism developed under the influence of surrealism, with its emphasis on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation and "white writing" canvases by Mark Tobey. The name of the movement derived from the German Expressionists and the European abstract schools. Abstract art and woman are combined in grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning's artist. There were also Pollock's energetic "action paintings", Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings – these artists are also classified as abstract expressionists.

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