Abstract art
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Definitions:
- Painting, sculpture, or graphic art in which the portrayal of things from the visible world plays no part. Encyclopædia Britannica.
- An abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation The Free Dictionary.
- Art with no defined meaning. Its purpose is to let the viewer interpret its meaning for him/herself. Urban Dictionary.
- Art that does not depict recognizable scenes or objects, but instead is made up of forms and colours that exist for their own expressive sake. (like the spontaneous, "free" expression, as in the Action Painting of Jackson Pollock.) The Oxford Dictionary of Art.
In Western art history, the break from the notion that a painting had to represent something happened in the early 20th century. Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and other art movements of the time all contributed by breaking the "rules" of art followed since The Renaissance. [1]
Last Judgement, 1912 by Wassily Kandinsky.
Constantin Brancusi's "The kiss" (1908) is one of the first abstract sculptures. This Romanian artist was a pioneer of modern abstract sculpture.
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Between 1910 and 1920, abstract art developed in America, Europe and Russia through the efforts of Cubists like Duchamp and Lipchitz, Dadaists, Volticists and Futurists like Kasomir and Piet. Artists experimented with an increased zeal, liberated in their creation from the conventional forms. The explorations of Julio González (1876 - 1942), a Spanish abstract sculptor, led to abstract configurations of welded metal that can be seen in the works of Americans such as David Smith, Theodore Roszack, Seymour Lipton, and Herbert Ferber. [2] and Mexicans like Enrique Carbajal (Sebastian).
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