Abstract Art

Abstract Art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Abstraction indicates a piece of reality in depiction of imagery in art. This piece of accurate representation can be slight, or partial or complete.

The several artists below are Abstract Artists:

Piet Mondrian, born 1872, was a Dutch painter. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group. Mondrian painted a piece called View From The Dunes with Beach and Piers.

This image was painted in 1909 and depicts a simplistic version of seascape and sky. He has used various tones of orange to portray the sky and grey and white to portray the sky.

What makes this painting abstract is the the simplistic view created in this drawing from what he saw. Without truely studying the picture, it is hard to know what this painting is meant to look like. But after looking at it for a while, lines and colours start to form making it recognisable without having to look at the name of the painting first to see what it is.
The mixture of what appears to be blue and light light orange makes the water recognisable along with the heavy use of orange and dark orange to represent the beach on the left. On the right of the painting, we see a usage of light brown which at first sight looks like unused land, but once you do take a look at the name of the painting, you'll start to realize that the brown is actually a pier.

In this image, called Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, the lines represent streets from obviously a birds eye view of the streets of New York City. This painting is very abstract because there are no objects to represent any landmark or building within New York, or anywhere else for that matter of fact, and all we are left with are reasonably thick black lines which intersect each other in straight, often close lines which represent streets.

This painting was also created by Piet Mondrian in 1937-42.