Abstract Art Groups In History

American abstract artists is one of the few artists organizations to survive from the great depression and continue into the 21st century. Kandinsky claimed wrongly as it turns out that he produced the first abstract painting in 1911. Abstract art uses visual language of shape form color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

Wassily kandinsky is often regarded as the pioneer of european abstract art.

Abstract art groups in history. As far as we can tell abstract art first began some 70000 years ago with prehistoric engravings. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 first edition with your subscription. Back then not one single painter was painting in an abstract stylebut we could argue that the roots of this movement are much deeper and in fact it seems the neanderthals where ahead of the game in their cutting. By the end of the 19th century many artists.

During world war i the emergence of the de stijl group in the netherlands and of the dada group in zuerich further widened the spectrum of abstract art. Western art had been from the renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. Namely two pieces of rock engraved with abstract geometric patterns found in the blombos cave in south africathis was followed by the abstract red ochre dots and hand stencils discovered among the el castillo cave paintings dated to 39000. Stone age abstract paintings.

Aaa was a predecessor to the new york school and abstract expressionism and contributed to the development and acceptance of abstract art in the united states. History of abstract art originating in europe in the late 19th century abstract art fully emerged in the early 20th century when a decline in the appreciation of realism became more common among avant garde artists of the period.