abstractionists
Painters avoiding realism
Abstractionists are artists who practice abstraction—creating work that departs from realistic representation in favor of shapes, colors, and forms.
The term applies especially to painters of the early-to-mid twentieth century who rejected figurative art: The abstractionists broke from traditional landscape painting.
Someone called an abstractionist may also deal in abstractions generally, preferring theory to concrete particulars.
Bauhaus painting instructor
Not depicting reality
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
- gesturalRelating to body movements
- color fieldArt of saturated expanses
- drip paintingArt via gravity-fed paint
automatism · impasto · layering · spontaneity · flatness · reductionism · pure form
Concept stripped to essentials
- color theoryFramework for understanding hues
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- emotional expressionConveying feelings outwardly
- spiritual artArt expressing religious themes
universality · essence · reduction · visual harmony · transcendence · formalism
Abstract geometric art movement
- ConstructivismGeometric Soviet art movement
- MinimalismArt stripped to essentials
- Op ArtIllusion-based visual movement
Kandinsky
Bauhaus painting instructor
nonrepresentational
Not depicting reality
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
- gesturalRelating to body movements
- color fieldArt of saturated expanses
drip painting · automatism · impasto · layering · spontaneity · flatness · reductionism · pure form
pure form
Concept stripped to essentials
- color theoryFramework for understanding hues
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- emotional expressionConveying feelings outwardly
spiritual art · universality · essence · reduction · visual harmony · transcendence · formalism
Suprematism
Abstract geometric art movement
- ConstructivismGeometric Soviet art movement
- MinimalismArt stripped to essentials
- Op ArtIllusion-based visual movement
- innovatorsinnovator, innovators, inventor, pioneers, pioneer
- intelligentsiaintellectuals, professors, intelligentsia, academics, philosophers
abstractionistsrealists
Those accepting things as-is
photorealists · hyperrealists · naturalists · portraitists · illusionists
abstractionistsrealists
Those accepting things as-is
traditionalists · classicists · academics · illusionists · objectivists