Abstract Art

Moving away from the faithful representation, abstraction is a category that formed in Western art in the twentieth century, from artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. The works of J.M.W. Turner, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet and the Impressionists, influenced what we categorize today from abstraction. Pablo Picasso And Georges Brava, create the first movement of abstract art, cubism. This is fundamental to futurism in Italy, abstraction without representation (non-objective abstraction) From Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian and the purism of Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant. It is denoted that in the second half of the twentieth century, movements as abstract expressionism, conceptual art and minimalism embraced the power and aesthetics of formal abstraction rather than literal representation.

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