ABSTRACTIONISM

An artistic style in which the natural appearance of objects becomes unimportant, and images
are reduced to geometrical shapes, patterns, lines, angles, textures, and colors.

 It is emerged at the same time as the expressionist movement in the 20 th century.

 Abstractionism is logical and rational. It involved analyzing, detaching, selecting, and
simplifying.

There are two types of Abstractionism:

 Representational Abstractionism depicts still-recognizable objects.
 Pure Abstractionism is where no recognizable subject could be discerned.

ARTSTYLES GROUPED UNDER ABSTRACTIONISM:

 Cubism
 Futurism
 Mechanical Style
 Nonobjectivism

CUBISM is a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the

expense of other pictorial elements, especially by displaying
several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by
fragmenting the form of depicted objects.
 The name is derived from the cube, a three-dimensional
geometric figure composed of strictly measured lines,
planes, and angles.

THREE MUSICIANS
Pablo Picasso, 1921
 FUTURISM is a movement in art, music, and literature that is marked
especially by an effort to give formal expression to the dynamic energy
and movement of mechanical processes.

 As the name implies, the futurists created an art for a fast-

paced, machine-propelled age.

ARMORED TRAIN
Gino Severini, 1915

MECHANICAL STYLE is an artistic movement in which

figures and images were reduced to basic elements, such
as planes, cones, spheres, cylinders, and other mechanical
components; even human figures were mere outlines
without expression.
 This artistic style that emerged is a result of the
futurist movement.
THE CITY
Fernand Léger, 1919

NONOBJECTIVISM is an artistic style that had no reference to

recognizable objects; lines, shapes, and colors were used in a cool,
impersonal approach that aimed for balance, unity and stability.
 From the very term “non-object,” works in this style did not
make use of figures or even representations of figures.

NEW YORK CITY

Piet Mondrian, 1942
POP ART, OP ART
POP ART is a form of art that depicts objects or scenes from
everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and
popular illustration.
 It also made use of commonplace, trivial, even
nonsensical objects.
 Their inspirations were the celebrities, advertisements,
billboards, and comic strips that were becoming
commonplace at that time.

OP ART or optical art is a style which made use of

precisely planned and positioned lines, shapes, and
colors to create the illusion of movement.
 This is yet another experiment in visual
experience—a form of “action painting,” with the
action taking place in the viewer’s eye.

CONCEPTUAL ART
CONCEPTUAL ART is intended to convey an idea or concept to the perceiver, and need not
involve the creation or appreciation of a traditional object such as a painting or sculpture.