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  2. Abstract art - Wikipedia

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    Abstract art. 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] Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an ...

  3. Abstract impressionism - Wikipedia

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    Abstract impressionism is an art movement that originated in New York City, in the 1940s. [1][2] It involves the painting of a subject such as real-life scenes, objects, or people (portraits) in an Impressionist style, but with an emphasis on varying measures of abstraction. [2] The paintings are often painted en plein air, an artistic style ...

  4. Geometric abstraction - Wikipedia

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    Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popularized by avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century, similar motifs have been used in art ...

  5. Acrylic painting techniques - Wikipedia

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    Acrylic painting techniques. Acrylic painting techniques are different styles of manipulating and working with polymer -based acrylic paints. Acrylics differ from oil paints in that they have shorter drying times (as little as 10 minutes) and are soluble in water. [1] Since this type of paint dries quickly you will need to work somewhat quickly ...

  6. Blind contour drawing - Wikipedia

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    Blind Contour Drawing of Feet, by M. Gunn. Blind contour drawing is a drawing exercise, where an artist draws the contour of a subject without looking at the paper. The artistic technique was introduced by Kimon Nicolaïdes in The Natural Way to Draw, and it is further popularized by Betty Edwards as "pure contour drawing" in The New Drawing on ...

  7. Abstraction (art) - Wikipedia

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    In the visual arts. Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world [1] —it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art. Artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called abstract; that ...