People go to some museums and view many classic pictures by famous painters like Van Gogh, Picaso, or Leonardo da Vinci. These pictures are very well-known, so most people can see them anywhere. However, abstract art is somewhat neglected. But this form has equal legitimacy – it is just misunderstood. Let’s take a journey into the modern art world to understand this art form.
Abstract painting artists don’t draw concrete representations of things, but draw pictures by feeling the emotion from the things or finding the fundamental elements of things. The paintings express the artists’ feelings with dots, lines, planes, and colors and express principles such as rhythm, harmony, unity, and change. There are two types of abstract painting: geometric abstract painting and lyrical abstract painting.
Geometric Abstract Painting
The artist paints a picture by modifying the simple features of things, by intentionally representing them in geometric forms and creating his or her own arrangements. Mondrian Piet is a representative geometric abstract painter. He said the “unique appearance of things interrupts the emotion of beauty. For this reason, things should become painted abstractly in a formative reappearance.” This picture was an abstract work he drew in 1930. He used the three primary colors, (red, blue, and yellow), the three achromatic colors, (white, black, and gray), and the basic factors of verticality and horizontality. He thought that pure beauty could be reached by creating innocent relationships between line and pure color to form a model.
Lyrical abstract painting
The painter expresses a picture with free feeling without formality, which is called warm abstract painting or lyrical abstract painting. Vassily Kandinsky and Pollock Jackson are representative lyrical abstract painters.
This picture was drawn by Jackson. He laid down a canvas on the floor and drew a picture by scattering paints, squeezing tubes of paint and shaking brushes loaded with paint. These behaviors are called “action painting”. His art works were completed by accident, which meant there was no plan to draw the pictures.
Circles in a circle is a picture by Vassily Kandinsky in 1923. He painted many pictures to stimulate emotion of humans by using harmonious colors and modern, geometric figures. The circles change into symbols to represent various images. In addition, the combination of dots, lines, and planes, and juxtaposing and overlapping with circles make people to image what is not circle. (by an interpreter) For instance, this picture can represent balancing on a ball, balloons floating on air, or satellites in orbit.