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ABSTRACTIONISM
•The idea that the art comes from colors and geometric shapes rather than an idea
•Influenced by Fauvism, Cubism, and Music
•Wanted to change the process of making art from what you see, to the idea behind the art piece
HISTORY
•Began in early 20th century and into early WWII•Started around the time of the Russian Revolution
MAJOR ARTISTS
•WASSILY KANDINSKY•PIET MONDRIAN•KASIMIR MALEVICH
On White II, 1923
WASSILY KANDINSKY
• 1866-1944• Father of abstract
painting• President of the
avant-garde
“The tone of color, the musical tone and human movement themselves abstracted
from their outer meaning, will manifest their inner essence and their own sonority which
issues from it” -Kandinsky
Composition VIII , 1923
Accent on Rose, 1926
PIET MONDRIAN
• 1872-1944• “All painting- the
painting of the past as well as of the present-shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color”-Piet Mondrian
Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red 1921
Gray Tree, 1912
Broadway Boogie-Woogie, 1942-1943
KASIMIR MALEVICH
• 1878-1935• Apart of the Russian
avant-garde
“Only with the disappearance of a habit of mind which sees in pictures little corners of nature, Madonnas and shameless venuses,
shall we witness a work of pure living art” -Malevich
Suprematism, 1917
Black Relationship, 1924
Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918
CRITICS
•Kandinsky failed to meet his own expectations • “his paintings do not achieve his goal of creating nonrepresentational works that would transcend mere decorations through their power to express ideas and emotions” •People didn’t accept his paintings or recognize it as art