Abstract art - a style in art and its variants

For me, abstract art style is primarily a logic of confrontation between civilizations. The whole history of civilization of the last century, based on formulas, algorithms, principles, rules and equations. However, it is human nature to desire for balance and harmony. In this connection, at the dawn of the century of scientific and technological revolution, there is an art that's over, which does not obey the classical canons of painting, but rather is designed to give freedom to the unconscious and chaotic, seemingly devoid of meaning, but in doing so by giving man the opportunity to get rid of influence of norms and dogmas, and to maintain internal harmony.

Abstract (from the Latin abstractus - a remote, abstract) is very broad direction in the art of the XX century, which arose in the early 1910s in several European countries. For abstract art characterized by the exclusive use of formal elements to show the reality of where imitation or an accurate representation of reality was not an end in itself.


Piet Mondrian Dutch, French Robert Delaunay and Frantisek Kupka Czech. At the core of their method of drawing lay the desire to "harmonize" the creation of certain color combinations and geometric shapes that cause a variety of contemplative Association.



In abstractionism can be divided into two distinct areas: geometric abstraction, based primarily on well-defined configurations (Malevich, Mondrian), and lyrical abstraction, in which the composition is organized from the free-flowing forms (Kandinsky). Also in abstractionism there are several large independent currents.



Cubism - avant-garde trend in the art that originated in the early XX century and is characterized by the use of conventional forms emphasized geometrical forms, the desire to "crush" the real objects on the stereometric primitives.



Rayonizm (Rayonism) - the direction of abstract art in the 1910-ies, based on the displacement of light spectra and light transmission. Is the idea of a form of "crossing of reflected rays of various objects," as a person really is not the object itself is perceived as "the sum of rays coming from the light reflected from the object."



Neoplastitsizm - marking the direction of abstract art, which existed in 1917-1928 years. in the Netherlands and the united artists grouped around the magazine «De Stijl» («Style"). Characterized by a clear rectangular shapes in the architecture and layout of an abstract painting in the large rectangular planes, painted in primary colors of the spectrum.



Orphism - the direction in French painting of the 1910s. Orfisty artists sought to express the dynamics of movement and musical rhythms with "laws" the interpenetration of the primary colors of the spectrum and the interconnectivity of curved surfaces.



Suprematism - direction in the avant-garde art, founded in 1910. Malevich. Expressed in different color combinations of simple geometric shapes of planes. The combination of multi-colored geometric shapes forms imbued with internal motion balanced asymmetrical Suprematist compositions.



Tachisme - over in the Western European abstractionism 1950-60s, the most widely used in the United States. It is a painting of spots that do not evoke images of reality, and express the unconscious activity of the artist. Smears, lines and spots in Tachisme applied to the canvas with fast hand movements without any premeditated plan.



Abstract expressionism - the movement of artists, depicting the rapidly and in large canvases, using negeometricheskih strokes, large brushes, sometimes dripping paint on canvas, for the sheer emotion detection. The expressive method of painting is often as important as the actual drawing.



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