The Historical Origin of Abstract Art

The original meaning of the word "abstract" 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. Its characteristic is that it lacks description and expresses ideas and paintings with perceptual methods, which basically belongs to Cheng's expression of abstract painting 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. In Michelle Sefer's view, abstract art is: "I call all art without any reminder of reality and any memory-whether this reality is the painter's starting point or not-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.

China origin:

Before the western concept of abstract art was introduced to China, the word "abstract" never appeared in Kandinsky's abstract painting, a recorded history of China. The Chinese translation of the word "abstract" came from Japan.

In China's writing history, intention, image, image and super-image are the closest to abstract meanings. Meaning can be interpreted as artistic conception, meaning, concept, intention and so on. For example, "two instruments give birth to four elephants" and "elephants are invisible". Image is an organic unified system of object image, representation, psychological image and language image. Compared with abstraction, the word "super image" transcends objects and images rather than concreteness, and may be more suitable for "abstraction" rather than abstraction. However, since 100, the concept of the word "abstraction" which entered the cultural language family of China has long been established, and it is unnecessary for future generations to change such an established fact.

Brief introduction of abstract art

Abstract art refers to an artistic expression in which the artistic image deviates from or completely abandons the appearance of natural objects. 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.