Understanding Abstract Art
Title: Understanding Abstract Art
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1723 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Understanding Abstract Art
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1723 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Almost all artwork in the western world has depicted a subject easily recognizable to the viewer up until the beginning of this century. Art without a recognizable subject matter, known as ?abstract art?, is unique to this period. Abstract art hasn?t been analyzed on its own in as much detail as other styles of art more easily defined. Instead it often times gets placed in a more general category called ?Modernism?. This, perhaps, is
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woman, or some anecdote ? is essentially a plane surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.?
Maurice Denis
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