Abstract Art

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Abstract Art

• 8th Grade Painting

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What is abstract art?

• Write down your thoughts in your sketchbook
• Discuss your ideas with the class

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What is abstract art?

• Abstract art
• Departs from reality
• Exaggerates or simplifies real objects from the
  world around us
• Abstract art
• Basic form with no attempt at realism or
  narrative

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Pablo Picasso The Guitar Player 1910
Picasso and Braque created Cubism a style of
art known for its fragmented and geometric
appearance
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Georges Braque Violin and candlestick 1910
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Wassily Kandinsky Composition VIII, 1923
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Wassily Kandinsky Composition VI 1913
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"The more abstract is form, the more clear and
direct its appeal." Wassily Kandinsky
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Piet Mondrian Composition with Large Blue Plane,
Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray1921
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Francis Picabia Red Trees 1912
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Kasimir MalevichBlack Square and Red Square1915
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Ad Reinhardt Abstract Painting 1948
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Jackson Pollock Lavender Mist, 1950
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Ellsworth Kelly Study for Meschers 1951
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Robert Rauschenberg Trophy II (for Teeny and
Marcel Duchamp) 1960
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Joseph Albers Study for Homage to the Square, in
May 1960
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"All art is an abstraction to some
degree. Henry Moore
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Hans Hofmann The Golden Wall 1961
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Jasper Johns Diver 1962
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William T. Williams Trane 1969
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Gerhard Richter Breath 1989