Abstractionism can be considered as the movement that results from impressionism. It is an artistic trend where form and color play a very important role, expressing a sense of freedom in art and its creation itself. The modern authenticity of this trend, appears together with the artist Vasily Kandinsky in 1910, for this moment the main characteristic of this artist is that he does not decompose the images as cubists, but instead print his works in an impetuous sense of color.
On the other hand, it is called abstract art, the style that does not try to reproduce the forms of nature or other models, but focuses on the characteristics of the structure, colors and forms of the work itself. This style is like a kind of opposition to photography and realism.
Within abstract art, it is possible to highlight Abstract Expressionism, a painting movement that originated in the 1940s in the United States. Among its main characteristics, stands out its preference for oil (and not for canvas) and for large formats.
In art, abstraction emerged in the 20th century to start a new trend in which new forms are explored. Until then, works of art imitated nature with its landscapes, people and objects that inhabit it; It was believed that something more resembled painting than reality, it was more perfect. Abstract painting is based on the elements of nature, but it is not applied with any standard; the artist manifests his inner world and art becomes absolutely subjective. One of the main characteristics of this period is that it conveys feelings, in the limitless use of colors, like geometric figures, in short, art is liberated.
There are two types of abstraction:
- Chromatic Lyrical Abstraction: It is the one that uses the expressive and symbolic function of colors and the rhythm produced by the relationship between them to manifest emotional processes through painting, whose highest representative is Kandinsky. This form of abstraction is also called chromatic, with Kandinsky and Delaunay as the most outstanding representatives.
- Geometric Abstraction - This, on the contrary, uses simplification and mathematical rigor of shapes and colors in a strict rhythm and calculated order. Its main representatives are Malevich and Mondrian. A clear example is the work of Mondrian.
