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Introduction:
Modern Art offers a confusing variety of
movements and mannerisms. Among the prevailing
styles, one extreme is 'Abstract art'. By "Abstraction",
wemean'whatisderivedordisengagedfromnature-the
pureoressentialformabstractedfromconcretedetails'.
Inawayabstractionwillincludeanyformofexpression
which dispenses with the phenomenal image and relies
on elements that are conceptual, metaphysical and
absolute.
AnAbstractPaintingislikeaviolentandthun-
der-wrackedcollisionbetweendifferentworldsthatare
destined to create a newworld by fighting one another.
EveryworkofartcomesintobeingastheUniversecame
into being. As a result, all the instruments play out of
tune, untilfinallytheysingout what we call'The Music
Of Spheres' under the impulse of the beliefs.
Modern Art, as applied to painting is a blanket term, a
patchworkquiltcoveringastrangeassortmentofrather
incompatible bedfellows. The groups or movements
enfoldedbyModernArtrepresentdifferentapproaches
and fashions which overlap each other and have no
fixed dates. In most cases theyreact against each other,
and seem to agree only on the liberty to experiment
freely, unrestricted by classical subjects and Renais-
sance techniques.
Abstract art is sought out as if everything was
there in the perfected internationalism, with cross-ref-
erences to theatre, music and sharp focus on primitive
art,thetotalrejectionofculturalhierarchyandthebelief
thatalotcanbeleantfromchildren'sartandindeedfrom
almost anything at all that was done without thought of
academicsanction. Accordingtodictionary,"Abstract
art is to draw from or concentrate in itself the essential
qualities of a single thing or several things expressing
a quality apart from any object". In the words of Pablo
Research Paper— Fine Arts
Aug- Oct ,2013
Abstract Art- the Whimsical form
of Modern Art
* Dr. Neeta Kabotra
*Asst.Prof. & H.O.D. Dept.of FineArts R.R.M.K.Arya Mahila Mahavidyalaya UnderGuru Nanak Dev
University,Amritsar
'Abstraction' will include any form of expression which dispenses with the phenomenal images and relies on
the element of Expression- they could be conceptual, metaphysical or absolute. The universal and timeless
shapes found in geometry: the circle, square and triangle become the spatial elements in abstract art; they are,
like colour, fundamental systems underlying visible reality.
A B S T R A C T
Picasso- "AllArt isAbstract…….." According to him
pictorial form of feelings and emotions is Abstract
Art.Imitative nature of man to be as close to nature as
possible or trying to reach to the perfection, but what
is abstraction? According to Herbert Reed, "Abstrac-
tion is what is derived or disengaged from nature, the
pure and essential form in concrete details."Hence the
term 'Abstraction' is understood as something 'Ab-
stracted fromNature'. But this rather is a matter ofcon-
troversy because since the 19th Century the Artists
havebeencautiouslyarguingforPaintingasanactivity
in itself, rather than an imitation or derivation of some-
thing else. The Abstract Art while not representing
Nature, represents the subject subordinated or dis-
tortedinordered placeandemphasizesontheplasticor
expressive means.
ThisArtformhasdevelopedinaperiodoflast
50 years. Its aim is to summarize emotion and to select
theirsignificant aspect,apart fromanyparticularexpe-
rience.
TechniquesandArtworks:
It is always abstruse form of Art and tries to
concentrate on the essential qualities of things. The
Artist dealing with abstract Art attempts to extract the
essence from nature & life and portrays the ideas of
things. For instance, 'TheWorld Watered'is an abstract
term, not liquid, wet or cold, in fact it has none of the
physical characteristics of reality, but as an abstraction
it suggests many things to the reader.
AbstractArtist shrines to create similar representation
of the idea, for instance- water in painting by choosing
some features of water which has to be potrayed as
element of structure like water doesn't have a color, it
hasasurface,aripplingeffectandperhapshasavolume
and occupies space. By using these features, artist can
depict water as a river or an ocean. The abstract artist
Keywords: Abstract art; Abstraction; Sublimation; Modern Art; Wassily Kandinsky

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makes use ofArt structures to recreate his own feelings
andtoexpresshisstimulationwhicharetobeconveyed
by structural elements. Abstract representation of wa-
ter on canvas on the basis of its qualities.
Wassily Kandinsky should be considered as the first
Abstractartist.HerealizedtheimplicationofNon-Rep-
resentation Theory. He settled in Munich in 1908 and
thereafter his paintings began to show tendency to-
wards Abstraction.Kandinsky's creation of abstract
workfollowed alongperiod ofdevelopmentand matu-
ration of intense thought based on his artistic experi-
ences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervour
of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was a
central aspect of his art. Kandinsky painted the first
conscious abstract painting in water colour in 1960,
placing dynamic colours in juxtaposition.
in Art." Any art piece that contains no references, no
avocationof realityisArtist'spointofSublimation. The
value of abstract imagination lies onArtist's Genius as
acolouristanduponthequalityofhislyricism.Abstrac-
tion in art relates the egocentric man from ages who
interpretedNature in terms of himself. Man has been
portraying God in superlative proportions whether in
terms of Athletic figures from Rome and Greece or
Multifaced Superstructures of human forms in India
and in the East.
The idea of clustering from reality in order to create
something Supernatural, Unreal or Super real in all hu-
man. ActuallythebeginningofCreativeArtstartedfrom
this urge of human nature that constantly drives one
towards innovation.
Conclusion:
The term'Abstraction' is not onlyreference to
final product, but the origin maintains mighty signifi-
cance, and hence can never be separated from the work
of art. It isthe quality of dealing with ideas rather than
events.The spiritual dimension and can transcend 'ev-
ery-day' experience, reaching a spiritual plane and can
henceturnabrushstrokeinto anescapeintotheElysian
Fields.1. Meaning of Art -by " Herberd Reed"
2. History Of Art (3rd Edition) (1977)- by "H.W. Janson"
3. Concerning the Spiritual in Art by "Wassily Kandinsky"
4. The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 by "Maurice Tuchman"
5. Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art, 1960-70 by "E.A. Carmean"
R E F E R E N C E
WassilyKandinskyandhisartwork.
Abstract art is Art that departs significantly
fromnaturalappearances.Formsaremodifiedorchanged
to varying degrees in order to emphasize certain quali-
ties or content. Recognizable references to original ap-
pearances may be slight. The term is also used to de-
scribeartthatisnon-representational.Itisdrawnoutor
extracted from the objective reality, unusual concep-
tion, only thought or felt as against the reality seen. A
Painter's poetic creation is vision of impassion of real
things, no similarity to any recognisable object. Actu-
ally the intention of Abstract art is to give picturesque
or illustrated form to the sensations, whether they arise
in form of a concept or an object. Precisely-
"EveryartificiallycreatedformisknownasAbstraction