The main directions of fine art of the XX century
Modernism
Abstract Futurism Cubism Purism Surrealism Fauvism Expressionism Suprematism Avant garde Cubofuturism Neoplasticism Orphism
Postmodernism
Abstract Expressionism Ready Made PopArt Primitivism No Art Optical Graffiti Hyperrealism Land Art Minimalism
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The Central Exhibition Hall in Perm hosts the exhibition "Bag"
15.04.2015
The opening of the exhibition, where two expositions of world famous artists Pyotr Frolov and Natalia Tur are presented, took place on February 27.
There are no funds in the Louvre for the exhibition of Jeff Koons
13.04.2015
The management of the Louvre was forced to cancel an exhibition of works by the artist Jeff Koons due to lack of funding.
10 years after the cancellation, it was decided to return the Edvard Munch Award
10.04.2015
Finally, after many years of calm, the premium has been restored.
This happened thanks to the support of the Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil.
Abstract art
Abstract art (art under the sign of "zero forms", non objective art) is an art direction formed in the art of the first half of the 20th century, which completely abandoned the reproduction of forms of the real visible world.
V. Kandinsky, P. Mondrian and K. Malevich are considered to be the founders of abstractionism.
V. Kandinsky created his own type of abstract painting, freeing the spots of impressionists and "wild"from any signs of objectivity.
Piet Mondrian came to his pointlessness through the geometric stylization of nature, started by Cezanne and the Cubists.
The modernist trends of the 20th century, focused on abstractionism, completely depart from traditional principles, denying realism, but at the same time remain within the framework of art.
The history of art with the advent of abstractionism experienced a revolution.
But this revolution did not arise by chance, but quite naturally, and was predicted by Plato!
In his later work "Philebus", he wrote about the beauty of lines, surfaces and spatial forms themselves, independent of any imitation of visible objects, from any mimesis.
This kind of geometric beauty, in contrast to the beauty of natural "irregular" forms, according to Plato, has not a relative, but an unconditional, absolute character.
After the 1st World War in 1914-18, the trends of abstract art were often manifested in individual works of representatives of Dadaism and Surrealism; at the same time, the desire to find application of unimaginative forms in architecture, decorative art, design (experiments of the Style group and the Bauhaus) was determined.
Several groups of abstract art ("Concrete Art", 1930;" Circle and Square", 1930;" Abstraction and Creativity", 1931), which united artists of various nationalities and trends, emerged in the early 30s, mainly in France.
However, abstract art was not widely used at that time, and by the mid 30s the groups broke up.
During the Second World War, 1939-45, a school of so called abstract expressionism appeared in the United States (the painters of J. Pollock, M. Toby, etc.), which developed after the war in many countries (under the name of tashism or "formless art") and proclaimed as its method "pure mental automatism" and subjective subconscious impulsiveness of creativity, the cult of unexpected color and texture combinations.
In the 60s, op art developed as one of the variants of abstract art; at the same time, during this period, abstract art as a current loses its position and is replaced by various trends.
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