Abstract Art and Abstraction Abstract or Abstraction Images

Abstract Art and Abstraction

Abstract or Abstraction • Images which departs from representational accuracy, to a variable range of possible degrees. Abstract artists select and then exaggerate or simplify the forms suggested by the world around them. 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 2

Think of abstraction as a continuum… Art can be slightly abstracted…like this painting by Henri Mattisse The Green Stripe (Mme. Matisse), 1905 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 3

Or it can be Completely abstract… Like Jackson Pollock’s painting called “Green Silver” Art that makes no attempt to represent anything is called Non-representational. 4

Or it can be somewhere in the middle… Like this painting by Marc Chagall Objects are recognizable, but not necessarily realistic, or representational. 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 5

The abstract art movement • The abstract art movement began in the late 1880’s-1890’s with artists like Russian painter Wassily Kandinski, and French artist, Paul Cezanne. • Why do you think abstraction as a movement began when it did? Think about inventions and the purpose of art. 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 6

Wassily Kandinsky 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 7

Wassily Kandinsky Notice that his work becomes gradually more abstract until eventually, no attempt

Formalism • Abstract art where absolutely no attempt is made at representation is sometimes called formalism. Formalism means that the work focuses directly on the use of principles and element, rather than content. Wassily Kandinsky Farbstudie 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 9

Color Field Abstractions • When a large area of the canvas is covered in a single color. Most color-field paintings are large — meant to be seen up close so that the viewer is immersed in a color environment. 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 10

Mark Rothko is the most famous Color-field abstraction artist 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty.

The Rothko Chapel 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 12

Abstract Expressionism • painting movement in which artists typically applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gesturally, non-geometrically, sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it onto canvas. Their work is characterized by a strong dependence on what appears to be accident and chance, but which is actually highly planned. 1/30/2022 copyright 2006 www. brainybetty. com; All Rights Reserved. 13