Abstract Art

• By the 19th Century arts of other cultures had become accessible to Europeans showing alternative ways of describing visual experience to the artist. By the end of the 19th century many European artists felt a need to create a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy.

• Artwork which alters color and form in ways that are obvious, can be said to be partially abstract. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable.

• Non-Representational is claimed by the artist only, who views his art as merely design and composition, void of any meaning.

Realm to Impressionism

Vincent Van Gogh –Post Impressionist

Pablo Picasso

cubism

Henri Matisse fauvism

Salvador Dali surrealism

Georgia O’Keeffe

early modern abstraction

Edvard Munch The Scream

Expressionist Art

Egon Schiele

Franz Marc

Wassily Kandinsky

Piet Mondrian

modernism

Modernist

Alexander Calder

Joan Miro

Mark Rothko

color field art

Victor Vasarely op art

RichardDiebenkorn

abstract landscape

Jeff Condon local artist

Stephen Duren local artist