Abstract

Abstract art is the opposite of figurative art (i.e. the representation of identifiable objects by means of recognisable images). Therefore, abstraction does not represent concrete “things” in nature, but proposes a new reality. It proposes a “pure art” looking beyond our reality.
Although we have had examples of abstraction since the first art produced by mankind (from prehistoric caves to the decorations in Romanesque churches), it is officially Kandinsky who was the first to theorise about it (apart from the Neo-Plasticists or the Suprematists, and a little earlier, isolated figures such as Hilma af Klint).
Abstract art exists independently of reality, it distances itself from it. Abstract art does not represent anything in reality, but since that is impossible (even a blank canvas represents something!), abstract artists have (and still do) follow two different paths:
On the one hand to expressive abstract art: subjective and spontaneous, sometimes improvised, where the protagonism belongs to the expressiveness of the artist, who dispenses with structure and turns to the gesture, the material and the feeling provoked by the work. It is therefore highly ambiguous and interpretable.
On the other hand, there is geometric abstract art: which aims to be objective and universal, planned, in which the composition is structured and which avoids all expressiveness through the use of geometry. It tends to advocate an impersonal style and aims to evoke clarity and precision.

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