What does abstract beauty mean?

Abstract beauty refers to the beauty that excludes the concrete image of objective things and is only embodied by the combination of abstract forms.

Abstract beauty is the beauty that is reflected only by the combination of abstract forms such as lines, points, surfaces, blocks and colors, excluding the specific images of objective things. As opposed to "figurative beauty". It can be found in geometric patterns, architectural art, calligraphy, abstract painting and sculpture in arts and crafts.

Abstract beauty can arouse people's aesthetic feelings, help to expand the diversity of artistic expression fields and means, leave a broad, far-reaching, infinite and hazy impression, and further promote people's association, appreciation and supplement. The application scope of abstract beauty is expanding day by day, such as advertising, daily necessities design, industrial product modeling and so on.

The development and evolution of vocabulary

Abstract beauty often evolved from concrete (simulated) forms, such as the geometric patterns of fish patterns on Banpo cultural pottery in China in the Neolithic Age, which were combined with concrete beauty. In the history of western art, from the works of "post-impressionism", independent abstract beauty factors began to sprout. German Valinger put forward the theory of "abstraction and empathy", arguing that both primitive art and oriental art are based on abstract impulse, and their style feature is that the spatial effect is suppressed, which transcends the object world and shows a single form.

Kandinsky, a painter, initiated abstract painting, thinking that artistic creation can be divorced from the visible objective reality and express the artist's subjective feelings and inner world with abstract modeling language (point, line, surface, color, etc.). ).