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The Origins of Abstraction
(Start between 1910 and 1920)
To 'abstract' means to draw away from, to separate, not to refer to something particular anymore. A movement of conscious and methodical destruction of particular and recognizable in appearance. Artistic elimination of rational visual association. In a way it is synthetical purification and intensification of colours, forms and ideas that leads to creation of artwork that either resembles a direct print of a soul that refused to undergo rational filters of mind and cognoscence, or a quasi-scientific, almost mathematical picture that looks so rational it's difficult to believe how irrational it actually is.
The art historians are still out, trying to determine who was the first abstract painter. Whatever is the case, the abstract painting sprang up at the same moment, and in the several places simultaneously: in Moscow and Petersburg (Rayonism, Constructivism...), Netherlands (De Stijl) Paris (Cubism), Munich (Bauhaus)...
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ArtLex: Abstraction and abstract art Imagery which departs from representational accuracy, to a variable range of possible degrees, for some reason other than verisimilitude...
Jon Atack: Art since 1914 In August 1914 cataclysm engulfed Europe. Huge armies fought over the possession of a strip of mud a few miles wide. Whole regiments were sacrificed like fields of stubble before a blaze. The physical devastation was unprecedented...
WebMuseum: Pure Abstraction Shapes and colors have always had their own emotional force: the designs on ancient bowls, textiles, and furnishings are abstract, as are whole pages of medieval manuscripts...
Abstract art paintings, inventions in art Abstract art gallery with paintings, biographies and art history.
abstract art and artists A summary of cubism, abstract expressionism, and neoplastisim (de stijl). Also has info on Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Piet Mondrain.
cavant-garde.com : The Emergence of Abstraction by Cavan Wee "In every country painters, aware of a great awakening, toiled and argued, banding themselves into groups and issuing manifestos, inspired by an intense desire to play their part in the creation of a new age".
GLYPHS: Kandinsky: Compositions An analytical view at some of the famous Kandinsky's compositions. Each painting lined up with the study article.
Mark Harden's Artchive: Kasimir Malevich, "Suprematism" A fairly rich selection of paintings in combination with aforementioned neat image viewer that lets you take a very close and detailed look. This is an artist with a limited opus.
csuhayward.edu: Another cube of Kandinsky to build the complete picture A fair selection of paintings and some biographical information.
ArtScene - FRANTISEK KUPKA by Ray Zone Louis Stern fine Arts Collection. Kupka's biography with a study article.
Guggenheim Museum: Parisian Visions of Robert Delaunay A very nice in-depth article written around a major exhibition that was organised by Guggenheim Museum. Modest selection of images though.
Mark Harden's Artchive: Piet Mondrian This is a long list of Mondrian's paintings online. Artchive allows you a very close look at the painting. All details, artist's technique and painting structure are fully exposed for you to enjoy.
WebMuseum: Kandinsky, Wassily A brief biography and a nice selection of paintings. Links to all related movements, periods and artist, as well as to the specific terms from the glossary of arts.
THE NEW CRITERION - Abstraction & utopia Abstract art—painting and sculpture that makes no direct, immediately discernible reference to recognizable objects—was born of an alliance of modernist aesthetics and the occult doctrines of theosophy in the second decade of the twentieth century...
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