http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/ http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/ For the past hundred years, abstract art has been a dominant mode of expression in America. But in its character, most of our abstract painting and sculpture pays small fealty to the concepts of those pure abstractionists, who hold that the work of art should be a completely meaningful object in itself, of solely esthetic significance, hermetically sealed against all other associations. weekly 0 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/dynamic_poster_store.htm Abstract Posters, Art Prints, Stretched Canvas Prints, Serigraphs, Framed Art Print, Lithographs weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/dominant_mode_of_expression.htm The process is basically the same as that of traditional art, which also rearranges, distills and intensifies, but is carried further. 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Obviously not, since the artist alone will determine this. But there are straws in the wind, and one of them is the attitude of the younger painters and sculptors toward abstraction. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/action_painting.htm Abstract expressionism, sometimes called action painting or the New York school, is the first American-born art movement to affect profoundly every part of the world where modern concepts of art exist, from Paris to Tokyo. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/the_cosmos_is_an_organism.htm Pollock, De Kooning, and Hofmann have all broken at times into imagery. Today many painters who remain completely abstract in their approach deal, nevertheless, with specific themes and subjects outside the personal realm. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/abstract_data_and_principles.htm It is by no means easy, at this stage, to give a generally acceptable definition of abstract art. From one standpoint it is evident that its authority and range have so widened in recent years that there are few or no young artists, however great or slight their ability, who have no share whatever in its development, at least through some particular aspect of their work. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/abstraction_and_anti_nature.htm I think the time has come to assert that abstraction in art does not mean being anti-nature. There is too much of nature in us for it to be other than an intrinsic part of our make-up. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/abstract_art_an_universal_language.htm When the Cercle et Carré exhibition was held in April 1930, the Parisian press informed us that such painting was the mere ghost of an experiment which we thought had died long ago, and that all this has nothing new to offer. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/life_is_change.htm Like man in the course of his personal existence, societies undergo a transformation of the mind or spirit, as well as of their outward appearance. The universe is a continuous creation, a bearing or 'bringing forth' in Biblical terms, and all its elements are subject, like the world, itself, to the great law of mutation or change. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/1912_abstract_art.htm Abstract Art History: Robert and Sonia Delaunay. Morgan Russell and Macdonald-Wright. Kupka. Picabia. Paris and Munich 1912. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/male_futurist_influence.htm Abstract Art: Futurist influence, Severini, Russian 'Rayonism', Male- vitch. Simultaneous beginnings of abstract geometrism. Arp and Sophie Taüber, Dada. The review De Stijl. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/the_spiritual_urge_to_abstract_art.htm Painters' manifestoes show the need for spiritual renewal. Parallel between Mondrian and Van Doesburg. The spectator's share in the work of art. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/abstract_art_between_the_wars.htm Cubist and surrealist reactions. The "Art d'aujourd'hui" exhibition. The Cercle et Carré and Abstraction-Création groups. Advanced reviews in Europe. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/abstract_art_between_the_wars2.htm Marinetti, Walden, Kassak, Schwitters and many others had their turn at holding forth with recitations and speeches accompanied by catcalls or applause. Canvases by Werkman, Huszar, Vantongerloo, Mondrian, Arp, Sophie Taüber and others who are now forgotten were shown and eagerly discussed there. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/abstract_painting_france.htm Magnelli. The 'Founders of abstract art' exhibition at the Maeght Gallery. 'Les réalités nouvelles'. The May Salon. Hartung, De Staël and Wols. Some outstanding painters. 'Tachisme' and 'Uniformisme'. Women painters. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/abstraction_and_empathy.htm Modern aesthetics, which has taken the decisive step from aesthetic objectivism to aesthetic subjectivism, i.e. which no longer takes the aesthetic as the starting-point of its investigations, but proceeds from the behaviour of the contemplating subject, culminates in a doctrine that may be characterised by the broad general name of the theory of empathy. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/the_abstract_movement_in_germany.htm Among the leaders of 'pure' abstractionism in Germany were Lothar Schreyer, Willi Baumeister, Erich Buchholz, Max Burcharz, Otto Nebel, Thomas Ring, Johannes Moltzahn, Walter Dexel, Oskar Schlemmer, Oskar Nerlinger, Edmund Kesting, and Otto Freundlich. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/german_abstract_beginnings.htm It's not true; we -- Arp, Eggeling, Janco, and I -- were nevertheless very intensely preoccupied with just art, or to be concrete: abstract art. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/abstract_painting_in_england.htm The development of purely abstract painting and sculpture in England has been intimately connected with that on the Continent with one major exception. 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Today their work has little or nothing in common, yet both are actuated by the desire to present the painting, built up wholly in terms of surfaces, as a reality that cannot be eluded. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/jackson_pollock.htm Pollock's painting is as direct as painting can be; preliminary sketches were entirely dispensed with. The artist's experience, which often reflects to a remarkable degree the strata of consciousness with their various contents, takes on its active meaning at the very moment when the gesture of painting renders form concrete. weekly 1 sitemap http://art-canyon.com/abstract-art/jackson_pollocks_black_drawings.htm Differentiation, not reduction, is the aim of these articles. 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