In 1920, Mondrian published his manifesto “Le Neoplasticime”, and spent years focusing on his straight lines and blocks of primary colors, trademarks of his geometric abstract style. Defining reality in terms of relationships and intangible forms rather than realistic shapes, artists laid claim to the term “Neoplasticism” (and oddly, not Geometric Abstraction) to describe the lack of concrete, firm sense of objects. Piet Mondrian, one of a group of Dutch artists who named their movement “De Stijl”, or “The Style”, looked to convey his feelings in art by simplifying the artistic expression, rather than recreating a reality which showed only life after a world war. The deconstruction of accepted visuals with flat shaped, straight lines and grids, was a vast change, and further led to the exploration of new forms and materials, including sculpture and architecture. Let’s delve into a little detail about geometric abstraction.Ĭubism, fathered by artistic greats such as Pablo Picasso, began in some way as a reaction to the introduction of photography (depicting realistic experiences) and as a movement which rejected thee more accepted, realistic art of the early 1900’s, in an art culture which directed artists to find something to recreate, perhaps stifling daring creativity. Today, it is now a staple in many modern art collections. Used for hundreds of years almost exclusively in Islamic art due to the prohibition of portraying religious figures, it seemed revolutionary and even bizarre to the art world in the early 1900’s. The use of geometric shapes pushes the sense of not conforming to realism, a familiar method of art which any viewer can related to. Geometric abstraction begins with the same ideology, focusing more earnestly on the two-dimension existence of painting. Abstract art is considered an “intellectual” art, providing viewers with inspiration without explanation. Best explained as a type of art which makes no attempt to recreate a recognizable object, abstract art demands the viewer decide for himself/herself what the work is expressing. Although abstract art may be difficult to understand to the average viewer, it is not so difficult to define.
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