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Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. The arts of cultures other than the European had become accessible and showed alternative ways of describing visual experience to the artist. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. The sources from which individual artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and reflected the social and intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time.
 

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Bleu II
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Mediterranean Landscape

Mediterranean Landscape
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Morning Fjord

Morning Fjord
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NEW YORK - Times square Aerial

NEW YORK - Times square Aerial
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New York Window

New York Window
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Convergence

Convergence
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Guernica, c.1937

Guernica, c.1937
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Farbstudie Quadrate, c.1913

Farbstudie Quadrate, c.1913
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Violet, Green and Red, 1951

Violet, Green and Red, 1951
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Dude

Dude "Big Lebowski"
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Hendrix Watercolor

Hendrix Watercolor
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Heart Kids

Heart Kids
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The Singing Fish

The Singing Fish
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Morning Luster I

Morning Luster I
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Sunrise, c.1965

Sunrise, c.1965
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Abstract art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art, are loosely related terms. They are of similar, although perhaps not identical meaning.

Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive. Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. In geometric abstraction, for instance, one is unlikely to find references to naturalistic entities. Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. But figurative and representational (or realistic) art often contains partial abstraction.

Both Geometric abstraction and Lyrical Abstraction are often totally abstract. Among the very numerous art movements that embody partial abstraction would be for instance fauvism in which color is conspicuously and deliberately altered vis-à-vis reality, and cubism, which blatantly alters the forms of the real life entities depicted.

Three art movements which contributed to the development of abstract art were Romanticism, Impressionism and Expressionism. Artistic independence for artists was advanced during the 19th century. Patronage from the church diminished and private patronage from the public became more capable of providing a livelihood for artists.

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Albers, Josef
Braque, Georges
Calder, Alexander
Delaunay, Robert Diebenkorn, Richard
Dufy, Raoul
Feininger, Lyonel
Frankenthaler, Helen
Gris, Juan
Hodgkin, Howard
Kandinsky, Wassily
Klee, Paul
Leger, Fernand  
Malivich, Kasimir
Miro, Joan
Mondrian, Piet
Motherwell, Robert
Pollock, Jackson
Rothko, Mark
Stella, Frank  
Vasarely, Victor

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