Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
(Artist, Curator and Author)
e: gaynor_evelyn_sweeney@live.com
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(Artist, Curator and Author)
e: gaynor_evelyn_sweeney@live.com
w: www.gaynorevelynsweeney.webs.com
m: +44(0)7944141519
Tate: Art Term – Abstract Art
Abstract art is art that does not
attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but
instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its
effect
Strictly speaking, the word abstract
means to separate or withdraw something from something else.
The term can be applied to art that is
based an object, figure or landscape, where forms have been
simplified or schematised.
It is also applied to art that uses
forms, such as geometric shapes or gestural marks, which
have no source at all in an external visual reality. Some artists of
this ‘pure’ abstraction have preferred terms such as concrete
art or non-objective art, but in practice the word abstract
is used across the board and the distinction between the two is not
always obvious.
Abstract art is often seen as carrying
a moral dimension, in that it can be seen to stand for virtues such
as order, purity, simplicity and spirituality.
Since the early 1900s, abstract art has
formed a central stream of modern art.
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