“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. There’s no danger then anyway, because the idea of the object will have left an indelible mark. It is what started the artist, excited his ideas, and stirred up his emotions.” For the Spanish master, the …
A Stake in the Heart of Abstraction: Why Picasso Was Right Read More »
Postmodernism assumes that there is no longer a centre. Every form of expression becomes one of many possible versions of reality, and truth is fragmented into context, perspective, and irony. In this world, language ceases to describe the world and becomes a tool for its constant deconstruction. What was meant to convey meaning transforms into …
Cracks in Language: Tension Between Conscious Abstraction and Postmodernism Read More »
Twentieth-century abstraction became one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of art, revolutionising not only the way the world is represented but also the understanding of the very function of an artwork. Its emergence marked a break with figuration and realistic depiction, introducing a more spiritual and intuitive approach to visual form. Modernist …
The Limit Beyond Gesture – the Conflict Between Conscious Abstraction and Modernism Read More »
The history of twentieth-century art shows that abstraction was not merely a search for new visual forms, but an attempt to redefine the role of the visual record within culture. Modernists, such as Kandinsky, Mondrian, Kazimierz Malewicz, and Hilma af Klint, believed that form could express the invisible: spirituality, order, and the universal laws of …
Interpenetrating Ideas – Modernism and Conscious Abstraction Read More »