Lexic.us

Definition of Abstract art

1. Noun. An abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation.

Definition of Abstract art

1. Noun. Art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Abstract art

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"Writing the history of Modernism, particularly that of Cubism and abstract art, has transformed the history of art since World War II. ..."

2. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"But sculpture never quite recovered from the effects of this neglect, and its development as an abstract art was therefore ..."

3. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"But sculpture never quite recovered from the effects of this neglect, and its development as an abstract art was therefore ..."

4. Cubists and Post-impressionism by Arthur Jerome Eddy (1914)
"It is toward the development of this more abstract art that the modern ... With this development of a taste for a very abstract art all the arts and crafts ..."

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