Examples of abstract in the following topics:
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- Painting and sculpture can be divided into the categories of figurative (or representational) and abstract (or non-representational).
- Artistic independence was advanced during the nineteenth century, resulting in the emergence of abstract art.
- Non-representational art refers to total abstraction, bearing no trace of any reference to anything recognizable.
- In geometric abstraction, for instance, one is unlikely to find references to naturalistic entities.
- 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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- Popular in the 1940s and 1950s, Art Informel is often considered to be the European equivalent to American abstract expressionism.
- Popular in the 1940s and 1950s, it is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism, although there are stylistic differences (for example, abstract expressionism is often described as being more raw and aggressive than tachisme).
- Abstract expressionism was a school of painting in the United States that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s.
- 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.
- Abstract expressionism is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus, and Synthetic Cubism.
- Abstract expressionism has many stylistic similarities to the Russian artists of the early 20th century such as Wassily Kandinsky.
- In many instances, abstract art implied expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious, and the mind.
- Although Abstract expressionism spread quickly throughout the United States, the major centers of this style were New York and California.
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- Postwar European artists, unlike American Abstract Expressionists, grappled with the isolated experience of the individual figure.
- One of the biggest contributing factors to this shift was the advent of Abstract Expressionism, a decidedly American movement that is often cited as the first American avant-garde.
- Unlike American Expressionism, which was more abstract, many European painters maintained the primacy of the figure in their work.
- 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.
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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.
- While Abstract Expressionism is most closely associated with painting, a number of sculptors were integral to the movement as well.
- We can see this abstraction in such works as "Plug" by Oldenburg.
- Claes Oldenburg produced oversized reproductions of familiar objects in increased sizes to abstract the subject matter.
- Evaluate how sculpture from 1945-1970 was influenced by abstract expressionism, minimalism, and pop art.
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- Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s.
- Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists.
- Encompassing several decades from the mid-20th century through the early 21st century, the history of Color Field painting can be separated into three separate but related generations of painters, commonly grouped into abstract expressionism, post-painterly abstraction, and lyrical abstraction.
- His shaped canvases of the 1960s revolutionized abstract painting.
- Differentiate Color Field painting from other contemporary abstract art such as 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.
- 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 New York School (which is most often associated with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
- 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.
- Still was one of the leading figures of the New York School of abstract expressionism.
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- 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.
- As an early modernist in search of new modes of visual expression and spiritual expression, he theorized (as did contemporary occultists and theosophists) that pure visual abstraction had corollary vibrations with sound and music.
- 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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- Modern abstract sculpture developed alongside other avant-garde movements of the early 20th century like Cubism and Surrealism.
- Marcel Duchamp had a deep impact on the evolution of abstraction in sculpture.
- The work of Constantin Brâncuşi at the beginning of the century paved the way for later abstract sculpture.
- These elegantly refined abstract forms became synonymous with 20th-century sculpture.
- Rodin's experiments with form, visible in the Thinker, launched modern abstract sculpture.