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Abstract Art


Abstract Art
Term applied in its strictest sense to forms of 20th-century Western art that reject representation and have no starting- or finishing-point in nature. As distinct from processes of abstraction from nature or from objects (a recurring tendency across many cultures and periods that can be traced as far back as Palaeolithic cave painting), abstract art as a conscious aesthetic based on assumptions of self-sufficiency is a wholly modern phenomenon.

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Artists Associated with Abstract Art — 28 artists:

John E Alexander
Hans Arp
William A Baziotes
Georges Braque
Richmond Burton
Dan Christensen
Willem DeKooning
Robert Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay
Adolph Gottlieb
Hans Hofmann
Wassily Kandinsky
Franz Kline
Morris Louis

Henri Matisse
Robert Motherwell
Louise Nevelson
Barnett Benedict Newman
Isamu Noguchi
Pablo Picasso
Jackson Pollock
Dan Rizzie
Mark Rothko
Mike Solomon
Clyfford E Still
Mark Tobey
Cy Twombly
Jack Tworkov

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