Abstractionism

“Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.”- Jerry Saltz

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What is this so called Abstractionism?

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A genre of art Representation that has no reference

to concrete objects or specific examples

Everyone looks at it differently Interpreted by the viewer’s past

experiences “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

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It can slightly, partially, or fully deviate from reality

Abstract Art uses a visual language of form, color, and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual reference in the world

Origins and influencesImpressionism - central object made

important.Post-impressionism - overlapping

planes to form shape.Fauvism - use of color and abstract

shapes and forms.Cubism - simplification in geometric

shapes or forms.

Whell, where’d it come from?

Fauvist influences

Wassily Kandinsky

Maurice De Vlaminck

“Composition VII” - Kandisky

Cubism influences

“Two Figures” - Lyubov Popova

GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTIONISM

Wassily Kandinsky

Georgia O’Keeffe

Other influences Sciences and Physics Philosophy Psychology Politics Music

Theory of relativity

SCIENCES AND PHYSICS• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was being

considered• Einstein’s Theory of Relativity• People views have been changing

POLITICS• Red Scare• Great Depression• World War I

• Fear, anger, worry

I’m not always awesome

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Sigmund Freud

• Considered the father of psychology

• Research with little Albert.

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian painter and art theorist Studied at the Academy of Fine

Arts Taught at the Bauhaus School

of Art and Architecture His art was inspired by music

Each note was assigned a color Created rich paintings with much color

and form

Kazimir Malevich

Malevich was a Russian painter and art theoretician

He did geometric abstract art He was the originator of the

Avant-Garde He was a Suprematist (focused

on basic geometric forms) Studied at the Moscow School of

Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture

Piet Mondrian

important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group

Neo-Plasticism Geometric artist Painted many simple lines and

squares with different color effects After his death, many fashion

statements were influenced by his art

Georgia O’Keeffe O’Keeffe went to Chatham Protestant

Episcopal Institute She studied art at the Art Institute of

Chicago and the Art Students League in New York

Revolutionized modern art Painted art/nature Most of her paintings are close-ups

of flowers

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