What are the characteristics of abstract art

Abstract art refers to the artistic expression that the artistic image deviates from or completely abandons the appearance of natural objects. So what do you know about abstract art? Let me tell you what abstract art is.

Abstract art is usually regarded as an art that does not describe the natural world. It is expressed in a subjective way through shapes and colors.

In many cases, the concept of abstract art refers to abstract painting. Of course, apart from abstract painting, abstract art should also include more artistic fields, such as abstract sculpture, abstract installation, music, abstract poetry, abstract photography, architecture, abstract dance and so on.

Abstraction is a foreign word. At first, the abstraction in art is only the generalization and refinement of the concrete, which makes the picture dissolve the outline and details of the concrete and become very symbolic. We can understand the original meaning of western abstract concepts from the evolution of Picasso's cow and mondriaan's tree. Later, abstraction came to the extreme, completely getting rid of concreteness and objects. The picture must have no objects that we are familiar with visually, but only a picture composed of colors, compositions, symbols, points, lines and surfaces, and textures. This is the so-called abstract painting.

What is the historical origin of abstract art? Abstract? The original meaning of the word refers to the abandonment of non-essential factors and the extraction of essential factors. Some original works of art and most arts and crafts works, as well as artistic styles such as calligraphy and architecture, should belong to abstract art in terms of the deviation between their images and natural objects. However, abstract art, as a conscious artistic trend of thought, rose in Europe and America in the 20th century. Many modernist art schools, such as abstract expressionism, cubism and Tahitis, are influenced by this.

Abstract art is a name relative to figurative art, and it can also be called non-figurative art. It is characterized by the lack of description, expression of concepts and painting with perceptual methods, which basically belongs to expressing realism and was first seen in Kandinsky's works. It combines various anti-traditional artistic influences, especially those from Fauvism and Cubism.

? Abstract? Art does not exist in Picasso's view. He thinks that only some people emphasize style, while others emphasize life. On Michelle? In Seifer's view, abstract art is:? I took everything without any reminder, without any realistic memories? Whether this reality is the painter's starting point or not. All art is called abstract art.

In fact, Fauvism and Cubism promoted the independent development of form and color. It was Kandinsky who further discovered its mystery. 19 10 years, he painted the first absolutely abstract watercolor painting, which was a vivid overlapping color point with no specific desire. Kandinsky's creative invention was to get aesthetic inspiration from music, and then Kupka of Czech Republic got inspiration directly from music to create abstract art. He was called the originator of musicalist painters, and later they formed the abstract school together.

The essence of abstract art is the space concept of the universe, and eternity is the time concept of the universe. Abstraction and eternity, * * * isomorphic into the essence of cosmic time and space.

It is the original ecology of the universe and was born before human beings. The universe is an abstract world composed of composition (interstellar relations), color (the true face of the universe), point (star) line (star trajectory, meteor and light), surface (cosmic space) and texture (the surface of a galaxy or planet).

The sky, clouds, lightning, water waves, crevices, grass stalks, dirt, veins, zebra patterns, tiger patterns and butterfly patterns, many pictures and details of nature are abstract. Blood images, cells, genes, pupils, skin colors and fingerprints in human life are also abstract. Particles, protons, neutrons and quarks in the physical world are abstract.

Abstraction is the natural essence of the universe, and it is also a visual way for human beings to know the world. Humans can feel the universe through abstract reading. Appreciating abstract beauty is the innate ability, talent and indispensable lifestyle of human beings.

The scope of abstract art

Abstract paintings on the world shelves began in Kandinsky 100 years ago. There was no such thing in the world before Kandinsky? Abstract art? 、? Abstract painting? This word. However, this does not mean that abstract symbols and patterns have never happened in his previous world. Humans have only known about the solar system for a few hundred years, but the solar system has existed for an eternal time. In the same way, we can only say that the world's understanding of easel abstract painting began with Kandinsky, but human abstract culture and artistic creation have a history of thousands of years.

The universe is abstract. Human beings have the talent of abstract aesthetics and abstract artistic creation.

In the 5,000-year history of China, abstract symbols, abstract elements, abstract forms, abstract decorations and abstract aesthetics abound. From the early human graffiti, painted pottery patterns, crock patterns, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze casting patterns, clothing wear, to the later courtyard design, rock decoration, bucket arch panes, embroidered clothes, seal cutting calligraphy, playing with jade and enjoying stones, all reveal the intertwined nature of life and abstract aesthetics. For thousands of years, China people have been creating and appreciating abstract beauty. China is a country with a long and splendid abstract culture.

Without the history of western abstract art, the universe is still abstract, and so is the abstract aesthetics and abstract creation of human beings. Therefore, even if we don't know and understand abstract art from the history of western art, we can find a way to understand and interpret abstract art from the origin of the universe and the essence and talent of human life.

The characteristics of abstract art Abstract art is an art without theme, logic and story, a feeling of life beyond experience, and an artistic way to express and describe human nature through abstract colors, lines, blocks and composition.

Abstract art pursues originality and regards innovation as the only art. Abstract art should challenge experience and the world and create an unprecedented new and beautiful picture.

We often feel that abstract art is unacceptable and unreasonable, and we will sigh that abstract works of art are surprisingly strange and obscure. In fact, all this is just a contradiction between experience and imagination. You should know that art is not a concrete material display, but an abstract feeling process and an activity of subjective consciousness. The originality of abstract art gives us the biggest activity space of subjective consciousness, and feeling that art can be the best enjoyment.

Abstract art pays more attention to form than content. Forms can be ever-changing. Abstract painting also emphasizes the simplicity of painting language, that is, the purity of painting form without any experience. Do not imitate any existing creation, deliberately create a unique painting language in the visual space, and complete the painter's life experience of art with distinctive personality and artistic symbols.

Appreciating abstract art, understanding and not understanding are relative. It is absolute that people's cultural literacy and artistic literacy determine their aesthetic ability.

Soul art

The world of abstract art is an ethereal world, a free and unpredictable world, and the language of this world is closer to the language of the soul in the depths of life. Therefore, when reality imprisons the mind and sight with precise dimensions and standards, the endless roaming of abstract art and the sense of time and space without walls provide a new platform for modern people's aesthetics and activate modern people's curiosity and innovative consciousness. People are willing to weave their own aesthetic network and build their own color world on the platform provided by abstract art.

Thinking art

Figural Art is an experiential art and an art of rational logic. Appreciation becomes a habit, so there are few aesthetic obstacles. Abstract art is irrational, with no theme and no story. It depends entirely on the creativity and imagination of the aesthete, so abstract art has a particularly high demand for aesthetics. In front of the color line, everyone's answer is different, and different answers are different thinking. It is difficult for a person without creative thinking to understand the mystery of abstract art.

high art

Popular art is popular art, abstract art is elegant art, and the original intention of art may be just to play, to vent easily, to be naughty, and to be a form of discovery. It is the society that makes art a memorandum of life and bears the responsibility that should have been borne by politics alone. Abstract art makes art return to humanity. Focus on developing the subconscious and imagination space that human nature has not yet developed. People's needs are divided into low-level needs (food, clothing, housing and transportation), sub-low-level needs (material display: such as luxury houses and famous cars) and high-level needs: artistic enjoyment: music, painting and so on.

As an advanced enjoyment of life, abstract art will undoubtedly receive more and more attention and discovery.

Abstract art conforms to modern people's aesthetic viewpoint and creative desire. Modern home decoration space, modern life concept and clothing taste elements are the preconditions for the development of abstract art, and more and more people with high IQ with independent value judgment will become the mainstream of abstract art consumption. They are not satisfied with the real space, but need to imagine the space to complete the spiritual exploration of aesthetics. (Xu Demin) Western Abstraction

Abstract painting on the shelf is a part of modern art, which develops and starts together with modern art.

Modern art began in Europe in the middle of19th century, and began with impressionism. In the textbooks of western art history, the work regarded as an epoch-making work of modern art is1Lunch on the Grass written by Manet in 863. Monet is the most representative impressionist painter, impressionist? Impression? The name comes from his 1872 work impression? Sunrise.

Cezanne is one of the representatives of post-impressionism, and he is the first painter who brought modernist art from concrete form to abstract form. Cezanne's understanding of color is the most incisive among modern painters. He believes that for a painter, only color is true. His? Restore nature to three basic shapes: cylinder, cone and sphere? The understanding of cubism influenced the birth of cubism, thus promoting the development of abstract art. Cezanne is the originator of the mainstream art of western modern formalism in the theoretical sense and is regarded as? Father of modern art? .

Since Cezanne, abstract painting has sprouted in theory and practice, and the emergence of cubism has given abstract painting an opportunity to express and display its fists and feet. At first, abstract painting and concrete painting were mixed together, that is, semi-abstract painting. There are some images on the screen, but these images are represented by geometric deformation, not purely abstract. Even some paintings that are purely represented by geometric figures and colors will use some specific symbols to express some symbolic meanings. The emergence of cubism has greatly shortened the pace towards abstract art and directly led to the birth of two schools of abstract painting (hot abstraction and cold abstraction).

The Dutch artist Mondriaan1911accepted the painting idea of Cubism in Paris and evolved Cubism into geometric abstract painting with its own distinctive characteristics. Mondriaan believes that plastic arts show two tendencies: realism and abstraction. The former is a manifestation of our aesthetic feeling, which is caused by the external images of nature and life. The latter is an abstract expression of color, shape and space, which is expressed by more abstract means, often geometric shape and space, in order to create a new reality.

Generally speaking, abstract art has the following three characteristics: first, it seems ordinary, simple and even clumsy, but it is extremely vivid; Second, people, scenery and things are interesting and intriguing, and they will last for a long time; Third, the great spirit it conveys is popular but not illiterate.