10 Amazing Abstract Paintings That Art Lovers Need to Know
Abstract art uses shape, form, color, and lines and always doesn’t represent anything in the real world.
Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color, and line to create a composition that always doesn’t represent anything in the real world.
Piet Mondrian.
A 1939–1942 oil on canvas painting by Piet Mondrian titled Composition №10.
After painting in a realistic style for years, Dutch artist Piet Mondrian joined the abstract art movement and quickly become a groundbreaking figure.
He formed his own philosophy on an abstraction called neoplasticism (also called De Stijl).
“This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance…on the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color.”
Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay, 1912–13, Le Premier Disque, 134 cm /52.7 in. In private collection.
