Dynamic craftsmanship is workmanship that doesn't attempt to address an exact depiction of a visual reality anyway rather use shapes, shadings, structures and gestural engravings to achieve its effect. WHERE DID IT BEGIN? abstraction arguably first began in prehistoric time periods, with the inability to render subjects accurately However, we will look at abstraction beginning in the late 19th Century. FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION FIGURATIVE ABSTRACT Figurative art represents objects or events in the real world, usually looking easily recognizable. Abstract art is always connected to something visual from the real world EXAMPLES OF FIGURATIVE ABSTRACT HELEN FRANKENTHALER, MOUNTAINS AND SEA, 1952 CY TWOMBLY, LEDA AND THE SWAN, 1962 WASSILY KANDINSKY, COMPOSITION X, 1939