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Definitions:
- 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.
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