2023年3月25日新增
Abstract art refers to any art that simplifies or completely abstracts the depiction of real natural objects, and its aesthetic content is expressed by the combination or structure of shapes, lines, and colors. Sometimes the subject of abstract art is real, but has been so stylized, blurred, overlaid, or broken down to essential forms that it is difficult to recognize the original. Partially decomposing the theme in this way is called semi-abstract art; while completely abandoning real objects is called non-representational or non-representative (NONOBJECTIVE) art.
The original meaning of the word "abstract" refers to human beings abandoning the non-essential factors of things and extracting the essential factors.
Part of primitive artworks and most of arts and crafts works, as well as artistic styles such as calligraphy and architecture, should belong to abstract art in terms of the deviation of their images from natural objects.
However, abstract art, as a self-conscious artistic trend of thought, rose in Europe and the United States in the 20th century. Many modernist art schools such as Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Tahiism, etc. are affected by this.
Abstract art is a name opposite to figurative art, and it can also be called non-representative art. It is characterized by the lack of description, and the use of emotional methods to express concepts and paint, and this method basically belongs to expression realism, which was first seen in Kandinsky's works.
It is a fusion of various anti-traditional artistic influences, especially evolved from Fauvism and Cubism.
In artistic creation, in addition to the impulse of empathy, there is also an opposite impulse that dominates, which is the "tendency of detachment".
The reason for detachment is that there is a conflict between people and the environment. People feel the vastness of space and the disorder of phenomena, and they have psychological fear of space and feel that it is difficult to settle down.
Since people's hearts cannot find peace in the ever-changing external phenomena, they can only seek comfort in the form of art.
In addition to the factors of escapism, the emergence of abstract art is also driven by industry, science and technology.
Modern buildings and environments require more generalized, concise and simplified art forms to adapt to them; the speed, power, and efficiency of machines, which are relatively abstract factors for vision, stimulate artists to try to create abstract beauty. The emergence of abstract art is a supplement to realistic art. Abstract art that does not aim at depicting specific images, conveys various emotions through lines, colors, blocks, shapes, and compositions, stimulates people's imagination, and enlightens people's thinking.
Many abstract works show the tendency of escapism and social nihilism, but there are also works that reflect people's vision for a better future, with positive, progressive and optimistic thoughts and feelings.
Abstraction has unique value, but also has its limitations. It can only exist as a form of expression, and it must not be replaced by realism.
Essence
Abstraction is the concept of space in the universe, and eternity is the concept of time in the universe. Abstraction and eternity together constitute the essence of space-time in the universe.
Abstraction is the natural essence of the universe, and it is also a visual way for human beings to understand the world. Humans can sense the universe through abstract reading.
Appreciating abstract beauty is an innate ability of human beings, a gift of human beings, and an indispensable way of life for human beings.
Characteristic
Abstract art is art without theme, logic, and story. It is the feeling of life beyond experience. It is an artistic way to express and narrate human nature through abstract colors, lines, color blocks, and compositions.
Abstract art pursues originality and regards innovation as the only art.
Abstract art should challenge the experience and the world, and create unprecedented new and beautiful pictures.
We often feel that abstract art is unacceptable and unreasonable, and we lament the astonishing strangeness and obscurity of abstract art works. In fact, all this is just caused by the contradiction between experience and imagination.
We must know that art is not a specific material display, but an abstract sensory process and an activity of subjective consciousness.
The originality of abstract art gives us the greatest room for subjective consciousness to move, and feeling art can become the best enjoyment.
Abstract art focuses more on form than on content. The form can be ever-changing, and it can be bright and bright. Abstract painting also particularly emphasizes the simplicity of painting language, that is, the purity of painting form, without any conception of experience.
Does not imitate any existing creations, deliberately creates a unique painting language in the visual space, and completes the artist's life experience of art with distinctive personality and artistic symbols.
To appreciate abstract art, knowing and not knowing are relative.
And a person's cultural accomplishment and artistic accomplishment determine a person's aesthetic ability, which is absolute.
The world of abstract art is an ethereal world, a free and unpredictable world, and the language in this world is closer to the language in the soul deep in life. Therefore, when reality imprisons the heart and sight with precise dimensions and standards, the boundless roaming of abstract art and the sense of time and space without walls provide a new platform for modern people's aesthetics, and activate modern people's curiosity and sense of innovation. People are willing to weave their own aesthetic network on the platform provided by abstract art, and build a color world that belongs to their own soul.
Figurative art is experiential art, rational and logical art, and appreciation becomes a habit, so there are few aesthetic obstacles. Abstract art is irrational. It has neither theme nor story. It depends entirely on the creativity and imagination of the appraiser to complete the aesthetics. Therefore, abstract art has particularly high requirements for the appraiser.
In the face of color lines, everyone has different answers, and different answers mean different thinking. It is difficult for a person without creative thinking to understand the mysteries of abstract art.
Universal art is popular art, abstract art is high art. The original intention of art may be just to play, to vent easily, to be mischievous, and to discover a form.
It is the society that allows art to become a memorandum of life, taking on the responsibilities that should be borne by politics alone. Abstract art brings art back to humanity. Focus on developing the untapped subconscious and imaginative space of human nature.
Abstract art conforms to modern people's aesthetic views and creative desires. Modern home decoration space, modern life concepts, and clothing taste elements are the prerequisites for the development of abstract art. More and more people with high IQ who have independent value judgments will be the mainstream crowd of abstract art consumption. They are not satisfied with the real space, but need the imagination space to complete the exploration of aesthetic spirit.
Generally speaking, abstract art has the following three characteristics:
1. It seems ordinary and simple or even clumsy, but it is extremely vivid;
2. People, scenery, and objects are long-lasting and intriguing;
3. The great spirit conveyed in it is popular and can be seen by the illiterate.
There are also three connotations:
First, abstract paintings do not depict or express objective images of the real world, nor do they reflect real life;
Second, there are no painting themes, logical stories and rational interpretations, neither expressing thoughts nor conveying personal emotions ;
Third, the visual form purely composed of colors, points, lines, surfaces, textures, composition, and combinations.