Nonrepresentational or nonobjective art isn’t a discovery of the twentieth century. A number of cultures, like the Islamic and Jewish, have developed over the centuries a high standard of decorative or non-figurative art forms.
Today, abstract art is in general accepted to be the art form that doesn’t outline objects in the natural world, but instead uses shapes and colors in a nonrepresentational or subjective way. According to art professionals, in its best form in Western art, an abstract art is one without a recognizable subject, one which doesn’t relate to something external. This kind of decorative art, without figurative illustration happens today in numerous cultures. As the modern abstract movement in sculpture and hurting appeared in Europe and Northern America between 1910 and 1920, 2 approaches have been sometimes accepted to provide different abstract styles: pictures that have been “abstracted” from nature to the point at which they no longer reflect a standard fact, and nonobjective, or “pure” art forms, which don’t share any reference to fact. Another excellence is made between abstract art which is geometrical, eg the work of Piet Mondrian, and abstract art that is more liquid, eg in the works of Wassily Kandinsky.
It was Kandinsky who once expounded that “of all humanities, abstract painting is the hardest. It demands that you know to draw well, that you’ve got an increased sensitiveness for composition and of colors, and you are a real poet; this last is essential.” Abstract art started in the fashionable movements of the late 19th century -Impressionism, neo-Impressionism, and post-Impressionism. These painting styles reduced the significance of the first material and started to emphasize the creative process of painting itself.
As artists in Europe at the early twentieth century “broke free” from the traditional representational rules art forms had to follow, figurative abstractions, or simplifications of fact, where detail is eliminated from recognizable objects leaving only the essence or some amount of recognizable form, became favored accelerating the modifications of art forms and viewpoints.
With different abstract styles, like Synchronism and Orphism, abstract art emphasized on color over form, on feelings over logic.
The action painting of an American Abstract Expressionist, Jackson Pollock, who dripped, dropped, smeared, spattered, or thrown paint on the canvas, is an excellent example of such an incredible change in art focus and strategy.
After the advent of technology and the mass function of software programs that assisted folk “play around” with their own pictures, paintings or other art forms, abstract art has gained more recognition than ever seen. But though having the ability to draw well isn’t a problem anymore, as Kandinsky indicated, being a “true” poet is what still separates the beginner tries to create abstract art from the artifacts of a real talent.