Abstract Research Task - Mim 11c

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The main abstract art movements

during the 19th century were

Romanticism, Impressionism, and

Expressionism. Artists

became more independent. Bold use of paint surface

was popular, along with drawing distortions and

exaggerations, and use of intense color. Artists

Abstract art was formed by artists breaking the rules of art

followed since the Renaissance. It is a term for art that is non-

objective, non-figurative, or non-representational. It does not

portray recognizable objects or scenes. The basic idea of

abstract art is that formal qualities are just as important as

representational qualities. Abstract artists tend to exaggerate or

simplify the forms of the painting, where color and form is often

In the 20th century, abstract art

became widely accepted. Many

more artists began abandoning

the established Western

conventions and rules of imitating

nature, and instead began

experimenting and developing

new artistic forms and

expressions. Towards the

beginning of the century, Paris art

was revolutionized by Henri

Matisse, pre-cubist Georges

Braque, and other artists with

Fauvism, an art movement that

featured wild multi-coloured

expressive landscapes and figure

paintings. Cubism was the main

art movement of abstraction. The

first Cubist painting was paintedby Pablo Picasso, and was based

on his idea that all depiction of

nature can be reduced to solids of

cubes, spheres, cones.

The 21st century featured many

more types of abstract because

of development in technology.

One of the popular art

movements is Pop Art. In the 21st

century, the idea of anything

goes is prominent, meaning that

there are no rules and anything


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Picasso and Braque first developed this semi-

abstract style in France 1907, where their

paintings were fragmented natural images.

Cubism was pushed to

complete abstraction in 1912 by Robert Delaunay. It is the first abstract

style of modern art. In Cubism, objects are broken up, analysed, and then

re-assembled to create an abstract form. The artist ignores rules and

traditions of perspective drawing and depicts the subject from multipleviewpoints. Cubists drew inspiration from other cultures and worked with

expressive energy. There are two phases of Cubism: Analytic and

Neoplasticism, also known

as De Stjil, is a movement of

abstract art that uses only

straight lines and

rectangular forms. It is

greatly influenced by

Cubism and mysticism and

ideas about geometric forms

like the perfect straight

line. Neoplastic paintings

avoid symmetry, but achieve

balance by using opposition.

It is a Dutch artistic

movement found in 1917

which uses geometry as a

fundamental principle.

Neoplasticism expresses

Abstract Expressionism is the first American art movement to

influence globally. The movement draws inspiration from

Kandinsky, Surrealism, and a range of dramatic painting

techniques. It can also be called Action Painting, which implies

that the act of painting is as important as the result itself.

Abstract Ex ressionism features aintin s from a wide variet of

Mark Rothko, No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta,

Black, Green on Orange), 1949, 85

3/8 x 65, oil on canvas, Museum of

Modern Art.

Les Demoiselles dAvignon

(1907), Museum of Modern

Art, New York.

Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950

(Lavender Mist),1950, National Gallery

of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.

Piet Mondrian, Composition with

Yellow, Blue, and Red, 1937-42, oil


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Wassily Kandinsky is generally known as the first abstract artist. His work

moved gradually towards total abstraction. He has influenced many other

younger European artists.


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One of the major reasons art changed was the

invention of the camera. Before the camera, family

photos were painted instead of photographed. When

the camera was invented, the need to paint realisticallygradually disappeared. Because of this, artists began

experimenting with new things and breaking the

standard rules of Western art that stated art needed to


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