Определение abstract art в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
: Art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way
{i} 20th century art movement in which attitudes and emotions are expressed through nonrepresentational means
or nonobjective art or nonrepresentational art Art, including painting, sculpture, and graphic art, that does not represent recognizable objects. In the late 19th century the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature was abandoned in favour of the imagination and the unconscious. Abstraction developed in the early 20th century with such movements as Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism. Vasily Kandinsky is credited as the first modern artist to paint purely abstract pictures, 1910. Piet Mondrian's De Stijl group in The Netherlands widened the spectrum 1915-20. Abstraction continued to flourish between the two world wars, and after the 1930s it was the most characteristic feature of Western art. After World War II, Abstract Expressionism emerged in the U.S. and had a great influence on European and American painting and sculpture. By the turn of the 21st century, artistic output was varied, with abstract art prominent alongside figurative and conceptual work
[ ab-'strakt, 'ab-" ] (adjective.) 14th century. Medieval Latin abstractus, from Latin, past participle of abstrahere to drag away, from abs-, ab- + trahere to pull, draw.