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What is Abstract Art?
Definition:
• Abstraction is at total departure from reality.
• It gets away from drawing or painting accurate
representations of any forms or objects.
• It typically has no recognizable things, objects are
changed or exaggerated by altering its color, shape
or form.
• Artists purposely changed the appearance so that
it is no longer realistic or have any reference to any
figurative reality.
Which art movement was influential?
Impressionism• The style of painting reduced the importance of the
original subject matter and began to emphasize the
creative process of painting itself.
• They labored to capture the ever changing effects
of light. Paint application became more abstract.
What is the difference between objective and
non-objective (non-figurative) abstract art?
Objective: when real things such as nature, still life, animals,
people or objects are used to deviate from its norm. This is
done through distortion, overlapping transparencies and angular
planes.
Non-objective: when elements of art such as line, shape, color
and texture are used to create a mood or feeling. Some works
create balanced beauty whereas others create chaotic
disharmony.
What prompted the Abstract Expressionism
movement and how did this play a role in the
art style?
World War II • Hitler's persecution of the Jewish people.
• The condemnation of modern art by the Nazis.
• Led to a wave of immigration of European avant-garde
artists to the United States - mainly to New York.
• The art movement called Abstract Expressionism was
born.
• It is less a style than a concept of performing art in a
spontaneous way without the limits of conventional forms.
Composition VIII, 1923
Guernica: Testimony of War, 1937(Main attraction for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris)
(Modern arts most powerful anit-war statement)
DURING World War II Picasso suffered some
harassment from the Gestapo in
Nazi-occupied Paris. An inquisitive German
officer, coming into his apartment, noticed a
photograph of Guernica lying on a table.
"Did you do that?" he asked Picasso.
"No, you did," said Picasso.