Abstract Art and Realistic Art

This is about abstract and realistic art and how there are many different abstract and realistic art like the Tableau I and the Nighthawks. Why do people make abstract art? They do it because they want to stand out or to express something. They do it to know about famous abstract and realistic art like The Stonebreakers and the Tableau I. In this writing, you will learn a little more or a lot. It depends how much you know.

There are many different artists that make different kinds of art. One example is the realistic artist Edward Hopper, who made Nighthawks. This painting was inspired by a restaurant he saw on Greenwich Avenue in New York. Before this, he made three international trips which had a great influence on the future of his work and the type of art he would do.

Another art form is abstract and one artist that makes abstract art is Mark Rothko who made Orange, Red, Yellow. The reason that he made that was to transcend boundaries. According to an article by Gallery Intell, Rothko’s work includes intensity, force, vibration and purity. Mark Rothko is closely identified with the New York school and Rothko’s work is characterized by rigorous attention to formal elements such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition and scale.

Artists make abstract art to show their emotions, ideas, and experiences and freedom of form and interpretation. Characteristics of abstract art is strong valuation of colors, shapes, lines, and textures and sometimes unrecognizable objects. Abstract art is sometimes about the balance or unbalance of form, composition, and color to achieve harmony, or disarray. Some pieces may focus on the method in the way the piece is made and which material they use. Abstract art also provides an experience that is unique and unconventional. There are moments when we just cannot explain emotions in language, so abstract art images help us to express our emotions.

The idea of abstract art dates back to the nineteenth century and it was influenced by post-impressionism, which was led by painters such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh. Abstract art often included images of mythology and historical events. Wassily Kandinsky is known to have started abstraction in the 19th century. Kandinsky viewed non-objective, abstract art as the ideal visual mode to express the “inner necessity” of the artist and to convey universal human emotions and ideas. Kandinsky also viewed music as a form of non-objective art because musicians could evoke images in listeners’ minds with sounds.

There are many different abstract and realistic art pieces and some are famous. Like the Tableau l, by Piet Mondrian that was made in 1921. He used oil paint and it was a notable piece within the neoplasticism movement. Mondrian is another piece that is currently in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany. The artwork is characterized by the thick black lines and the red, yellow, white, blue and gray that is on the inside of the black lines. The black lines are used to make a sense of order and a flatness that is central to Mondrian’s philosophical and his artistic pursuits.

Another famous art piece is the Stonebreakers. The Stonebreakers was an oil painting in 1849, on a canvas made by a French painter, Gustave Courbet, and it was destroyed in a bombing. Courbet made two versions of it and one of them is displayed at the 1850 Paris Salon in a collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. At the time it was bought by the museum, the painting was referred to as “Courbet’s Monumental Masterpiece.” In February 1945, Dresden was bombed by the Allies of World War II and the Germans decided to move the painting, but it was destroyed during a bombing raid while they were moving it. The second version, a reversed image, survived the war and is in the Oskar Reinhart Collection in Winterthur.

There is a lot of information about abstract and realistic art. Abstract artists make abstract art to show their emotion and their ideas and to show experiences and freedom. Abstract art is characterized by its strong valuation of colors, shapes, lines and sometimes unrecognizable objects. Two artists, Edward Hopper and Mark Rothko are famous abstract artists.