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abstract art: see abstract expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school. ..... Click the link for more information. ; modern art modern art, art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture ). ..... Click the link for more information. . abstract artor nonobjective art or nonrepresentational artArt, including painting, sculpture, and graphic art, that does not represent recognizable objects. In the late 19th century the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature was abandoned in favour of the imagination and the unconscious. Abstraction developed in the early 20th century with such movements as Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism. Vasily Kandinsky is credited as the first modern artist to paint purely abstract pictures, c. 1910. Piet Mondrian's De Stijl group in The Netherlands widened the spectrum c. 1915–20. Abstraction continued to flourish between the two world wars, and after the 1930s it was the most characteristic feature of Western art. After World War II, Abstract Expressionism emerged in the U.S. and had a great influence on European and American painting and sculpture. By the turn of the 21st century, artistic output was varied, with abstract art prominent alongside figurative and conceptual work. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She has been labeled variously an impressionist, romanticist,
colorist or expressionist and numbers among her influences Pierre
Auguste Renoir, Vasily Kandinsky, Pierre Bonnard - artists whose works
range from impressionism to abstractionism - and some of the
expressionists. Bogus Pomp, Lemon's 1990 debut work for Lyon, appears to be
transitional, moving away from his more narrative earlier works like
Folkdances to his current penchant for emotional abstractionism. |
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