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Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings.
Artists of Abstract art paintings; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. A. American abstract painters (207 P) Art ...
Geometric abstraction is present among many cultures throughout history both as decorative motifs and as art pieces themselves. Islamic art, in its prohibition of depicting religious figures, is a prime example of this geometric pattern-based art, which existed centuries before the movement in Europe and in many ways influenced this Western school.
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" [1] or "support"). [2] The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush , but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes , may be used.
Helen Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, in New York City. [3] Her father was Alfred Frankenthaler, a New York State Supreme Court judge. [3] Her mother, Martha (Lowenstein), had emigrated with her family from Germany to the United States as an infant. [4]
Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998) [1] was an artist and educator.Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection.
Georges Seurat's 1886–1887 The Bridge at Courbevoie, copied and enlarged by Riley, had a powerful influence on her approach to painting. [18] The Courtauld Gallery's 2015–2016 exhibition "Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat", including her 1960 painting Pink Landscape (seen here in the poster) showed how Riley's style was influenced by Georges Seurat's pointillism and pleasure in seeing.
Images of peasant girls spinning wool were a popular subject and appeared frequently in the works of nineteenth century artists, to whom the theme offered opportunities to romanticize rural life, document regional costume, as well as conjure up the iconography of Clotho and the Fates or Moirai of classical mythology, who are primeval goddesses that spin, apportion and eventually cut the thread ...