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1. Drawings and abstract paintings are a playground of shop @ Virtosu Art Gallery delights. Artists use line, color,
form, texture, pattern, composition and process to present ideas and evoke emotions in a poetic fashion. An
abstract painting may be about any one or combination of those elements.
Abstract Painting
Abstract art has the ability to express what other visual art styles cannot. It can address notions that are theoretical
and subjective, existing in the realms of mind and soul, as opposed to in outer reality. Abstract art utilizes colour,
shape, and form to express its meaning, without becoming bogged down in the storylines carried by scenery and
objects. As abstract art can get the emotions in a raw, brand new and powerfully direct manner.
On this site I write as a type visit Virtosu Art Gallery of art and as a topic in art. This page will focus on the qualities
of abstract art - that is, what it looks like and what form it takes. To deepen your understanding of context,
purpose, history and the significance surrounding art, I highly recommend reading my abstract art article.
There are many different styles within the genre, although art exists as a general style describing non-objective art.
Each style of art that is abstract serves its own particular meaning or agenda. Moreover, each artist has his or her
own individual style. But minimal color is used by others for example, some virtosuart.com artists use colours.
Some artists incorporate lots of details and patterns, and others just paint vast blocks of color. There are lots of
different ways to approach art that is abstract!
A brief list of the many artwork styles/movements include: post-painterly abstraction, abstract expressionism art
neo-plasticism, colour area, lyrical abstraction, minimalism, Russian Constructivism, geometric abstraction, and
action painting.
Whew, what a list!
To examine an abstract painting or drawing in terms of its style, you need to actively pay attention to the
following areas: composition, colour, line, texture, pattern, form and process.
The main element amongst all forms of art is that the work is non-representational and non-objective. It follows
that the artwork does not look like anything. Abstract art can be based or it can be based purely on the
imagination. There are many ways that an artist can apply paint to an abstract painting, such as brushing, rolling,
splattering, dripping, scratching or soaking the paint. Their brushstrokes might be rough and choppy, or delicate
and fine. They may work entirely intuitively, making the painting off the top of their head. Or they might take the
strategy, before putting the brush to 19, carefully penciling in the details. In addition artists can attach the canvas

2. and sand or other forms of texture together.
Here'a a quote from the man credited as being the"first" abstract artist in Western art:
It demands that you learn how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors,
and that you be a poet. This last is essential."
-- Wassily Kandinsky
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