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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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001 Abstraction

In abstract or nonrepresentational art, the artwork becomes its own subject.

• In philosophy, abstraction refers to the distancing of an idea from objective referents so that it becomes a distillation of thought. Abstract art came about through a similar process of distancing, as various artists began to present simplified, or distilled, notions of the objective world.

PIONEERS

• Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) gradually simplified representational motifs in his work until they became compositions of autonomous floating forms by 1912.

• Jean (Hans) Arp (1866–1966) cut out amorphous forms in wood to make nonobjective sculpted reliefs from 1916 onward.

• Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935), leader of the Russian Suprematist movement, made ...

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ISBN: 9781631595431