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Abstract Art

Abstract Art

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Arts

9th - 12th Grade

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Amanda Mercadante

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Abstract Art

​Wassily Kandinsky - Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor), 1910. Watercolor and Indian ink and pencil on paper. 19.5 × 25.5. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

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What is Abstract art?

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Art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.​

​Doesn’t fit into a little box, can be many things, representational (with purpose, coil mean something) or non representational, (no meaning at all, art just because!

Abstract art is...

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What do you see? What do you think this is? Don’t be afraid to guess!

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​WHAT IF I TOLD YOU......

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IT WAS A BULL!

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Some abstract artists take something from reality (like this bull for example) and break it down to its most elementary shapes, angles, texture and colors.​

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Abstract Art

​Wassily Kandinsky - Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor), 1910. Watercolor and Indian ink and pencil on paper. 19.5 × 25.5. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

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