Abstract art (abstractionism): main works, artists and everything about

Abstract art (or abstractionism) is that which forms the representation of any external reality.

In other words, or abstractionism is not based on an object or setting, it is not intended to imitate nature, or any intention to represent the external world.

Summary and characteristics of Abstract Art

Abstract art, completely free from any obligation to represent reconciled figures, is also known as non-figurative art.

Because it is more open, or abstractionism, it allows the viewer to multiply possible interpretations, being able to use imagination as a ferramenta of understanding of work.

Or focus is not using colors, geometric shapes, graphic arrangement, textures, layout and composition.

Origin of the abstractionist movement

Historically, art accompanies the transformation of society. No moment in which abstract art arises, new political ideologies, uncovered scientific fields emerge from us in biology, physics and mathematics.

Following or flowing from the moves, the artists will try to develop completely innovative languages. That is the context that happens to chamada

modern art, gives which abstract works are decorrents.

Also, this type of art is born in painting, not the beginning of the 20th century, as an opposition to figurativeism. When it emerged, it was a quite controversial movement and was targeted by critics and the public, especially by the elite.

"It is a muddy pictorial expression, and because modern life has a necessary fosse."

Fernand leger

Vertents of abstractionism

Costuma-abstract art is divided into two groups: expressive abstractionism (also known as lyrical or informal) and geometric abstractionism.

Or first he was inspired by movements of avant-garde expressionism and fauvism, having as senior representative or Russian Wassily Kandinsky. This artist is considered or first to produce abstract art, performing various works based on the sound experience and the relationship between music and cores.

Já or geometric abstractionism has as main influence or mathematical rigor and was influenced by cubism and futurism. Nomes of note nessa vertente são Piet Mondrian e Malevich.

Despite this attempt at categorization, it is worth underlining that abstract art is not a homogeneous group of artists producing similar pieces. Each artist chooses a path and follows a particular line.

"Or artist does not need to falsify nature to create his pictorial image of him; to evocation of the subject and or inventive treatment gives form to take or place of direct imitation. "

Moszynska

Artists and works of abstractionism

1. Wassily Kandinsky

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered a pioneer of abstract art. Or work Primeira abstract watercolor It dates from 1910 and represents a water divider in painting.

Kandinsky, who lived in Munich, was the first Western painter to get out of hand with the obligation of representational painting. Their fabrics were famous for their geometric shapes, innovative composition and intense use of colors. Or a painter who was inspired by the present freedom of music.

Kandinsky became a professor at the Bauhaus, an important German school of design, architecture and art.

Outra emblematic work of him Composition IV ou To Batalha, made in 1911, it is also possible to show the chromatic effects of the psyche of the people.

Trust also main works of Wassily Kandinsky that summarize his biography.

2. Kazimir malevich

Outro grande nome do abstracionismo é o also russo Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935). As the painter's works we will try to summarize forms and cores to simpler compositions possible.

These were the first two artists to use pure geometric shapes in their work. Malevich is one of the two most representative artists of Geometric Abstractionism, or Suprematism.

One of his most representative canvases, which is of great importance to the history of art in general, is Quadrado Preto (1913).

"Na minha struggles desperate to free art from the burden of this world of objects, sheltering me in a square shape."
Kazimir malevich

3. Piet mondrian

The Dutch Piet Mondrian (1872-1974) was also two great names for the abstract movement. Their foram fabrics painted from pure hearts and lines.

Desire of the painter was to obtain the maximum possible clarity and, for isso, he tried to make sure that the canvases reflect the mathematics of the universe. No wonder the painting sponsors were always regular, precise and you are.

A large part of his work is made up of variations on the primary cores, composted in arrajos with pretas lines. Uma dessas telas é Composition in vermelho, yellow and blue, from 1921.

Abstract art in Brazil

Since the 1940s, abstract art began to enter the Brazilian territory. Os pioneiros foram Abraham Palatnik (1928), Manabu Mabe (1924-1997) and Luiz Sacilotto (1924-2003).

Or chave moment, not so much, it happened in 1951, with the I Bienal de São Paulo. Foi la that despontaram names like Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica and Alfredo Volpi.

1. Lygia clark

Lygia Clark (1920-1988) was not just a painter, she was also a sculptor, a deanist, a teacher of fine arts and a psychotherapist.

To artist fez part do Brazilian neo-concretism. To your three-dimensional series Bugs, from 1960, fez immense succession of public and critics, pois trazia innovations in the field of no representation, as it allowed the imagination of the public to flow.

These sculptures were used as a material for covering aircraft and offered multiple combinations of agreement as desired by the spectator.

2. Helio Oiticica

Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) belongs, also like Lygia Clark, to Neo-Concreteism. Its production of it-compost of many fabrics and installations-teve anarchist influence.

O artist ficou very well known by the installations with intense cores, one of them is Penetrável Magic Square nº 5, De Luxe, a feita construction from a 1977 model, which can also be found in the Inhotim Museum.

3. Alfredo Volpi

Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988) is considered one of two exponents of the Brazilian modernist movement.

Some of him is related to abstract art due to its geometric compositions, but they are still inspired by elements reconhecíveis, as bandeirinhas de festas juninas, and many times levem no title or no bandeirinhas.

An example of that kind of abstract art made by Volpi é Bandeirinhas com Mastro, from the 1960s.

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