Abstractionism developed alongside Expressionism in the early 20th century. It emphasized logical and rational concepts like space, time, and relativity over emotional expression. Artists abstracted scenes into geometric shapes, patterns, and colors. Cubism derived from cubes and depicted subjects from multiple perspectives by analyzing and reassembling geometric forms. Futurism celebrated the modern industrial world through mechanized, high-speed depictions of machines. Piet Mondrian's nonobjective works used only primary colors and black and white lines and shapes without recognizable objects.

1. ABSTRACTIONISM

2. ABSTRACTIONSM
• Same time with Expressionism
• Concepts: Space-time and relativity
• While Expressionism was emotional,
Abstractionism is Logical and rational.
• It involved: Analyzing, detaching, selecting,
and simplifying

3. Representational abstractionism
• Artists reduced a scène
into geometrical shapes,
patterns, lines, angles,
textures and swirls of
color.
• Depicting still-
recognizable subjects to
pure abstractionism
where no recognizable
subject could be
discerned. Oval Still Life (Le Violon)
Georges Braque, 1914

4. CUBISM
• Cubist style derived its name from the cube, a three-
dimensional geometric figure composed of strictly
measured lines, planes, and angles.
• Cubist artworks were, therefore a play of planes and
angles on a flat surface
• In earlier styles, subjects were depicted in a three-
dimensional manner, formed by light and shadow.
• In contrast, the cubists analyzed their subjects’ basic
geometrical forms, and broke them up into a series of
planes. Then they re-assembled these planes, tilting
and interlocking them in different ways.

5. CUBISM
• In addition, the art of the of the past centuries
had depicted a scene from a single, stationary
point of view. In contrast, cubism took the
contemporary view that things are actually
seen hastily in fragments and from different
points of view at the same time.

6. CUBISM
• Pablo Picasso (Pablo Diego José Francisco de
Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los
Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad
Ruiz y Picasso) – Cubist Spanish
painter/sculptor

7. PABLO PICASSO

8. PABLO PICASSO
THREE MUSICIANS, 1921 GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR, 1932

9. FUTURISM
• Began in Italy in the early 1900s.
• Futurists created art for a fast-paced,
machine-propelled age.
• They admired the motion, force, speed, and
strength of mechanical forms

10. GINO SEVERINI
• was an Italian painter and a leading member
of the Futurist movement. For much of his life
he divided his time between Paris and Rome.
He was associated with neo-classicism and the
"return to order" in the decade after the First
World War. During his career he worked in a
variety of media, including mosaic and fresco.
He showed his work at major exhibitions,
including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art
prizes from major institutions.

11. FUTURISM
ARMORED TRAIN – GINO SEVERINI 1915

12. MECHANICAL STYLE
• In this style, basic forms such as planes, cones,
spheres, and cylinders all fit together precisely
and neatly in their appointed places.

13. MECHANICAL STYLE
The City – Fernand Leger, 1919

14. NONOBJECTIVISM
• Logical geometrical conclusion of abstractionism
• From the term “non-object”, works in this style
did not make use of figures or even
representations of figures. They did not refer to
recognizable objects or forms in the outside
world.
• Lines, shapes, and colors were used in a cool,
impersonal approach that aimed for balance,
unity and stability.
• Colors were mainly black, white, and the
primaries

15. PIET MONDARIAN
NEW YORK CITY - 1942