Abstract Paintings

Abstract art work is really hard to appreciate especially if you are not an artist yourself. Only the real artist can explain the meaning of his or her artwork. Modern and past art works are not far from each other. Symbols seen on textiles, pottery and rocks with linear or geometric signs.

If you happen to observe this kind of painting, you can see different colors and shapes with different sizes. The painter make their art in a unique way and it is not easy to understand the meaning. Abstraction is when the painter make a real image into his or her own art with the use of expression.

There are many different styles available that you can use in making your own painting. Splattering and dripping are two of the most used techniques in this era. For the beginners, these two styles will be easier to use. In using this You let the gravity guide the paint on it’s opposite way.

The splattering technique is like the dripping technique but here you will dip your brush and just whip it through your blank canvass. You can also use different tools such as a toothbrush, combs or just use your hands.

In its purest form in Western art, an abstract art is one without a recognisable subject, one which doesn't relate to anything external or try to "look like" something. Instead the colour and form (and often the materials and support) are the subject of the abstract painting. It's completely non-objective or non-representational.

A further distinction tends to be made between abstract art which is geometric, such as the work of Mondrian, and abstract art that is more fluid (and where the apparent spontaneity often belies careful planning and execution), such as the abstract art of Kandinsky or Pollock.

Also generally classified with abstract art are figurative abstractions and paintings which represent things that aren't visual, such an emotion, sound, or spiritual experience. Figurative abstractions are abstractions or simplifications of reality, where detail is eliminated from recognisable objects leaving only the essence or some degree of recognisable form.

In Western art history, the break from the notion that a painting had to represent something happened in the early 20th century. Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and other art movements of the time all contributed by breaking the "rules" of art followed since The Renaissance. Impressionism saw painters not "finishing" their paintings. The Fauvists used colour in a non-realistic way. Cubism introduced the idea of painting an object from more than one view point. From all of these the idea developed that colour, line, form, and texture could be the "subject" of the painting.

Abstract Expressionism, which emerged in the 1940s, applied the principles of Expressionism to abstract painting. The action painting of Jackson Pollock, in which paint was dripped, dropped, smeared, spattered, or thrown on the canvas, is a good example.

In 1864 the critic Ernest Chesneau wrote that if the trend the Impressionists were setting continued, paintings would eventually consist of nothing but "two broadly brushed areas of colour".

Making any art works are fun, exciting and also challenging. The main key here is using your imagination, creativity and your emotions. Think about anything for your idea and make a new version of it using this kind of art. Release the inner artist in you.