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Movement. naturalism, abstract art. Hilma af Klint (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɪ̂lːma ˈɑːv ˈklɪnːt]; 26 October 1862 – 21 October 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history. [1] A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract ...
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] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not ...
Gabriele Münter (1902–1916) Signature. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky[a] (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art ...
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich[nb 1] (23 February [O.S. 11 February] 1879 [1] – 15 May 1935) was a Russian avant-garde [nb 2] artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century. [2][3][4][5] He was born in Kiev, modern-day Ukraine, to an ethnic Polish family.
Art is an open field no longer divided by the objective versus non-objective dichotomy. Artists can achieve critical success whether their images are representational or abstract. What has currency is content, exploring the boundaries of the medium, and a refusal to recapitulate the works of the past as an end goal. [88] [89] [90] Damien Hirst ...
Lillian August Battan Still (c. 1930 – late 1940s) Patricia Alice Garske Still (1957–1980) Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following ...
Agnes Bernice Martin RCA (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was an American abstract painter known for her minimalist style and abstract expressionism. [1][2] Born in Canada, she moved to the United States in 1931, where she pursued higher education and became a U.S. citizen in 1950. Martin's artistic journey began in New York City, where ...
Style. Abstract art. Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. [1][2] Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. [3] His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and ...