Examples of abstract art in the following topics:
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- Since the arrival of abstract art in the early twentieth century, the term "figurative" has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world.
- Artistic independence was advanced during the nineteenth century, resulting in the emergence of abstract art.
- Abstraction exists along a continuum; it can formally refer to compositions that are derived (or abstracted) from figurative or other natural sources, or it can refer to non-representational art and non-objective art that has no derivation from figures or objects.
- Non-representational art refers to total abstraction, bearing no trace of any reference to anything recognizable.
- Figurative art and total abstraction are nearly mutually exclusive, but figurative or representational art often contains at least one element of abstraction.
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- Meaning in nonrepresentational art is highly subjective and can be difficult to define.
- Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are related terms that indicate a departure from reality in the depiction of imagery in art.
- Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter, printmaker, and art theorist, is one of the most famous 20th century artists and is generally considered the first important painter of modern abstract art.
- He posited that pure abstraction could express pure spirituality.
- Kandinsky is recognized as the father of modern abstract art in the 20th century.
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- Popular in the 1940s and 1950s, Art Informel is often considered to be the European equivalent to American abstract expressionism.
- Art Informel did not refer to a sense of "informal art" or a simple reduction of formality, but instead was characterized by a complete absence of form in art.
- Twentieth century painter Wassily Kandinsky is often considered the inventor of such non-figurative art, becoming the first abstract artist as well as a prominent theorist.
- Tachisme is a specific French style of abstract painting under the greater movement of Art Informel.
- Compare the European postwar movement of Art Informel to American abstract expressionism.
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- Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement.
- Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been used previously in Germany's Der Sturm magazine in 1919.
- In many instances, abstract art implied expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious, and the mind.
- Abstract expressionism expanded and developed the definitions and possibilities that artists had available in the creation of new works of art.
- Pollock redefined what it was to produce art.
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- During the postwar period, many sculptors made work in the prevalent styles of the time: Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Pop Art.
- Minimalist artists explicitly stated that their art was not about self-expression.
- Common practices seen in Pop-Art sculptural work include the display of found art objects, representation of consumer goods, the placing of typical non-art objects within a gallery setting and the abstraction of familiar objects.
- We can see this abstraction in such works as "Plug" by Oldenburg.
- Evaluate how sculpture from 1945-1970 was influenced by abstract expressionism, minimalism, and pop art.
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- During the 1950s and 1960s, forms of Geometric expression including Hard-edge painting and Frank Stella's work in Geometric abstraction emerged as reaction against the subjectivism of Abstract expressionism.
- Clement Greenberg became the voice of Post-painterly abstraction by curating an influential exhibition of new painting that toured important art museums throughout the United States in 1964.
- By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.
- It's also seen as a continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting.
- Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art by the early 1960s, and is thought to be a precursor to the postmodern movement.
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- The New York School was an informal group of American abstract painters and other artists active in the 1950s and 1960s.
- It represented, and is often synonymous with, the art movement of Abstract Expressionism, such as the work of Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning.
- The artists of the New York School drew inspiration from surrealism and other contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theatre, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle.
- A school of painting that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s, Abstract Expressionism is characterized by the view that art is non-representational and chiefly improvisational.
- Painters, sculptors, and printmakers created art that was termed Action painting, Fluxus, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, Pop art, Minimal Art and Lyrical Abstraction, among other styles and movements associated with abstract expressionism.
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- Modernist sculpture movements include Cubism, Geometric abstraction, De Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Formalism Abstract expressionism, Pop-Art, Minimalism, Land art, and Installation art.
- In the early 20th century, Pablo Picasso revolutionized the art of sculpture when he began combining disparate objects and materials into one constructed piece of sculpture; the sculptural equivalent of the collage in two dimensional art.
- Similarly, the work of Constantin Brâncuşi at the beginning of the century paved the way for later abstract sculpture.
- Brâncuşi's impact, through his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, exemplified by artists including Gaston Lachaise , Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore , Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, and Jacques Lipchitz.
- By the 1940s, abstract sculpture was impacted and expanded by Kinetic art pioneers Alexander Calder, Len Lye, Jean Tinguely, and Frederick Kiesler.
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- The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular: action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the New York art world's vanguard circle.
- The New York School, which fostered the development of the abstract expressionist style of the 1950s was documented through a series of artists' committee invitational exhibitions commencing with the Ninth Street Art Exhibition in 1951 and followed by consecutive exhibitions through 1957.
- The Ninth Street Art exhibition was not only a showing of a remarkable amount of work from leading abstract expressionists and notable New York artists, it was also the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde.
- Clyfford Still, 1957-D No. 1, 1957, oil on canvas, 113 x 159 in, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
- Still was one of the leading figures of the New York School of abstract expressionism.
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- During this time period, there were also European artists who engaged more fully in abstraction, particularly those associated with the French painting movements Tachisme (from the French word tache, meaning stain) and Art Informel.
- Art Informel, a movement closely related to Tachisme, rejected the geometric, hard-edge style of American abstraction in favor of a more intuitive form of expression.
- Serge Poliakoff painted in the French tachisme style of Art Informel, an abstract movement which is often considered to be the European counterpart to Abstract Expressionism.
- Art Gallery of New South Wales.
- De Moines Art Center, De Moines, Iowa.