John Wolseley’s work highlights the blending of spontaneous process with a rich artistic journey, the marks of which are both left on the work and incorporated into his mixed media art.Tate Blog Post “Some artists of this ‘pure’ abstraction have preferred terms such as concrete art or non-objective art, but in practice, the word abstract is used across the board and the distinction between the two is not always obvious.”.Including reference to the fascinating spiritual painter Hilma Af Klint with her work from 1907. BBC arts documentary in which painter and critic Matthew Collings charts the rise of abstract art over the last 100 years.Join us as we explore all styles of abstract art in the Abstraction Exhibition this June 2020 The average viewer will take each work on its own terms and make their own judgments. This probably does not matter except to art historians.

‘Abstract’ is thus a term broadly used, making the distinction between various forms of abstract art not always immediately obvious. The degree and nature of this link varies from artist to artist as can be seen in contemporary works by Wendy Sharpe or Georgia O’Keefe which abstract in a painterly way from clearly recognisable forms. The abstraction employed in other schools of art like Fauvism, Dadaism or Cubism retains more of a link, however attenuated or distorted, to the visual world (such as Henri Matisse or George Braque).īottle and Fishes c.1910-2 Georges Braque 1882-1963

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