History of abstract painting. Contemporary abstract painting

There are no movements in art history that have appeared suddenly, all the trends have predecessors as well as abstract art and abstract painting. This movement has similar features with Cubist and Futurist art. The abstract art goal is to depict objects in the natural world in a non-representational way, that's why it is possible to come across with such terms as "non-figurative art", "non-objective art" and "non-representational art" regarding abstract painting.

The term «abstract painting» appeared in the beginning of the 20th century and among the painters of that period there were such names as Robert Delaunay, Arthur Dove, František Kupka, Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Balla. When it goes about the history of abstract painting, it is well-known that non-objective art appeared long before 20th century, when pictures were drawn in the dirt.

As well as other movements abstract art also has influenced such areas as sculpture, graphic art, etc. The movement emerged in United States but the followers of it appeared in Europe also. It was the leading movement during the two world wars, and after the 1930s. The rejection of nature imitation propagandized by traditional European conception became one of the leading ideas of abstract art.

The features of the movement are also noticeable in today's painters works. Analyzing pop art and abstract painting it is needed to note a variety of large-scale artworks which are created basing on the principles of abstract expressionism. The return to dadaism ideals can also be traced in some works of contemporary artists, however, pop art eliminates the destructive, satirical and anarchic Dada movement ideas. The idea of abstract art is to show and represent such things as emotion, sound, or spiritual experience. As for figurative abstraction it's goal is to eliminate detail from the object and only a degree of recognisable form is left. In sculpture as well as in painting the artists represented the same ideas – that is the refuse of traditional representation of physical objects. For an abstract painter it is vital to explore the relationships of forms and colors, rather than traditional representation of recognizable images.

Today's galleries, online and local ones, exhibit plenty of abstract oil original painting for sale. Nowadays' painters carry on the traditions of various well-known movements, including abstract painting. Everyone can easily visit one of such online galleries located at klinkov.com web site, there the works of contemporary abstract painter Valeriy Klinkov are collected and can be obtained directly from the painter.