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HERE ARE SOME OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ABSTRACT ART

Curvilinear Abstract Art

This type of curvilinear abstraction is abstract motifs including knots, interlace patterns, and spirals .Objects characterized by curving lines and shapes, such as arcs or circles.

Robert George Gilberg - Curvilinear, 1950

Colour-Related or Light-Related Abstract Art

Use of colour (or light) in such a way as to detach the work of art from reality, as the object dissolves in a swirl of pigment. This type of art embraces a mix of styles, whose common theme is a naturalistic tendency. This naturalism is visible in the type of shapes and colours employed.

Interior at Petworth - Williams Turner

Geometric Abstraction

This type of intellectual abstract art emerged from about 1908 on wards. An early rudimentary form was Cubism. It is characterized by non-naturalistic imagery, typically geometrical shapes such as circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, and so forth. In a sense - by containing absolutely no reference to, or association with, the natural world - it is the purest form of abstraction.

Black Circle (1913, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg) painted by Kasimir Malevich

Emotional or Intuitional Abstract Art

Intuitional art embraces a mix of styles, whose common theme is a naturalistic tendency. This naturalism is visible in the type of shapes and colours employed. Unlike Geometric Abstraction, which is almost anti-nature, intuitional abstraction often evokes nature, but in less representational ways. Two important sources for this type of abstract art are: Organic Abstraction (also called Biomorphic abstraction) and Surrealism.

Composition No.4 (1911, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen)

Gestural Abstract Art

This is a form of abstract expressionism, where the process of making the painting becomes more important than usual. Paint may be applied in unusual ways, brushwork is often very loose, and rapid.

Untitled by Kare Appel

Minimalist Abstract Art

This type of abstraction was a back-to-basics sort of avant-garde art, stripped of all external references and associations. It is what you see - nothing else. It often takes a geometrical form, and is dominated by sculptors, although it also includes some great painters.


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