

While none of his paintings remain, this style is clearly seen in some Song Dynasty Paintings. In Chinese painting, abstraction can be traced to the Tang dynasty painter Wang Mo (王墨), who is credited to have invented the splashed-ink painting style. One can enjoy the beauty of Chinese calligraphy or Islamic calligraphy without being able to read it.

It is at this level of visual meaning that abstract art communicates. Much of the art of earlier cultures – signs and marks on pottery, textiles, and inscriptions and paintings on rock – used simple, geometric and linear forms which might have had a symbolic or decorative purpose. Among the very numerous art movements that embody partial abstraction would be for instance fauvism in which color is conspicuously and deliberately altered vis-a-vis reality, and cubism, which blatantly alters the forms of the real life entities depicted. But figurative and representational (or realistic) art often contains partial abstraction.īoth geometric abstraction and lyrical abstraction are often totally abstract. Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. In geometric abstraction, for instance, one is unlikely to find references to naturalistic entities. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive. This departure from accurate representation can be slight, partial, or complete. They are similar, but perhaps not of identical meaning.Ībstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. The sources from which individual artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and reflected the social and intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time.Ībstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. The arts of cultures other than the European had become accessible and showed alternative ways of describing visual experience to the artist. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. *these are an approximate time frame to be used as a guide in regular situations, many things such as multiple changes of artwork and current workload during busy times may impact those mentioned here.Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.


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