Abstractionism

Abstractionism
•
movement arose from
the intellectual points
of view in the 20th
century.
Abstractionism
• logical and rational
• involves analyzing,
detaching, selecting,
and simplifying.
Abstractionism
• grouped into
•cubism
•futurism
•mechanical style
•nonobjectivism
 Cubism
• style derived its name from the
cube, a three- dimensional
geometric figure composed of
strictly measured lines, planes,
and angles
Futurism
• art for a fast-paced, machine-
propelled age
• depicted the dynamic sensation
of motion, force, speed, and
strength of mechanical forms
Armored Train

Gino Severini, 1915

 Mechanical Style
• basic forms such as planes,
cones, spheres, and cylinders
all fit together precisely and
neat lying their appointed
places.
The City

Fernand
Léger,
1919
Nonobjectivism
• logical geometrical
conclusion of
abstractionism
 Nonobjectivism
• works in this style did
not make use of figures
or even representations
of figures
New York City

Piet Mondrian
1942