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Introduction:Modern Art offers a confusing variety of

movements and mannerisms. Among the prevailingstyles, one extreme is 'Abstract art'. By "Abstraction",we mean 'what is derived or disengaged from nature- thepure or essential form abstracted from concrete details'.In a way abstraction will include any form of expressionwhich dispenses with the phenomenal image and relieson elements that are conceptual, metaphysical andabsolute.

An Abstract Painting is like a violent and thun-der-wracked collision between different worlds that aredestined to create a new world by fighting one another.Every work of art comes into being as the Universe cameinto being. As a result, all the instruments play out oftune, until finally they sing out what we call 'The MusicOf Spheres' under the impulse of the beliefs.Modern Art, as applied to painting is a blanket term, apatch work quilt covering a strange assortment of ratherincompatible bedfellows. The groups or movementsenfolded by Modern Art represent different approachesand fashions which overlap each other and have nofixed dates. In most cases they react against each other,and seem to agree only on the liberty to experimentfreely, unrestricted by classical subjects and Renais-sance techniques.

Abstract art is sought out as if everything wasthere in the perfected internationalism, with cross-ref-erences to theatre, music and sharp focus on primitiveart, the total rejection of cultural hierarchy and the beliefthat a lot can be leant from children's art and indeed fromalmost anything at all that was done without thought ofacademic sanction. According to dictionary, "Abstractart is to draw from or concentrate in itself the essentialqualities of a single thing or several things expressinga quality apart from any object". In the words of Pablo

Research Paper— Fine Arts

Aug- Oct ,2013

Abstract Art- the Whimsical formof Modern Art

* Dr. Neeta Kabotra

* Asst. Prof. & H.O.D. Dept. of Fine Arts R.R.M.K. Arya Mahila Mahavidyalaya Under Guru Nanak DevUniversity, Amritsar

'Abstraction' will include any form of expression which dispenses with the phenomenal images and relies onthe element of Expression- they could be conceptual, metaphysical or absolute. The universal and timelessshapes found in geometry: the circle, square and triangle become the spatial elements in abstract art; they are,like colour, fundamental systems underlying visible reality.

A B S T R A C T

Picasso- "All Art is Abstract…….." According to himpictorial form of feelings and emotions is AbstractArt.Imitative nature of man to be as close to nature aspossible or trying to reach to the perfection, but whatis abstraction? According to Herbert Reed, "Abstrac-tion is what is derived or disengaged from nature, thepure and essential form in concrete details."Hence theterm 'Abstraction' is understood as something 'Ab-stracted from Nature'. But this rather is a matter of con-troversy because since the 19th Century the Artistshave been cautiously arguing for Painting as an activityin itself, rather than an imitation or derivation of some-thing else. The Abstract Art while not representingNature, represents the subject subordinated or dis-torted in ordered place and emphasizes on the plastic orexpressive means.

This Art form has developed in a period of last50 years. Its aim is to summarize emotion and to selecttheir significant aspect, apart from any particular expe-rience.Techniques and Art works:

It is always abstruse form of Art and tries toconcentrate on the essential qualities of things. TheArtist dealing with abstract Art attempts to extract theessence from nature & life and portrays the ideas ofthings. For instance, 'The World Watered' is an abstractterm, not liquid, wet or cold, in fact it has none of thephysical characteristics of reality, but as an abstractionit suggests many things to the reader.Abstract Artist shrines to create similar representationof the idea, for instance- water in painting by choosingsome features of water which has to be potrayed aselement of structure like water doesn't have a color, ithas a surface, a rippling effect and perhaps has a volumeand occupies space. By using these features, artist candepict water as a river or an ocean. The abstract artist

Keywords: Abstract art; Abstraction; Sublimation; Modern Art; Wassily Kandinsky

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makes use of Art structures to recreate his own feelingsand to express his stimulation which are to be conveyedby structural elements. Abstract representation of wa-ter on canvas on the basis of its qualities.Wassily Kandinsky should be considered as the firstAbstract artist. He realized the implication of Non-Rep-resentation Theory. He settled in Munich in 1908 andthereafter his paintings began to show tendency to-wards Abstraction.Kandinsky's creation of abstractwork followed a long period of development and matu-ration of intense thought based on his artistic experi-ences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervourof spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was acentral aspect of his art. Kandinsky painted the firstconscious abstract painting in water colour in 1960,placing dynamic colours in juxtaposition.

in Art." Any art piece that contains no references, noavocation of reality is Artist's point of Sublimation. Thevalue of abstract imagination lies on Artist's Genius asa colourist and upon the quality of his lyricism. Abstrac-tion in art relates the egocentric man from ages whointerpretedNature in terms of himself. Man has beenportraying God in superlative proportions whether interms of Athletic figures from Rome and Greece orMultifaced Superstructures of human forms in Indiaand in the East.The idea of clustering from reality in order to createsomething Supernatural, Unreal or Super real in all hu-man. Actually the beginning of Creative Art started fromthis urge of human nature that constantly drives onetowards innovation.Conclusion:

The term 'Abstraction' is not only reference tofinal product, but the origin maintains mighty signifi-cance, and hence can never be separated from the workof art. It isthe quality of dealing with ideas rather thanevents.The spiritual dimension and can transcend 'ev-ery-day' experience, reaching a spiritual plane and canhence turn a brush stroke into an escape into the ElysianFields.1. Meaning of Art -by " Herberd Reed"

2. History Of Art (3rd Edition) (1977)- by "H.W. Janson"3. Concerning the Spiritual in Art by "Wassily Kandinsky"4. The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 by "Maurice Tuchman"5. Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art, 1960-70 by "E.A. Carmean"

R E F E R E N C E

Wassily Kandinsky and his art work.Abstract art is Art that departs significantly

from natural appearances. Forms are modified or changedto varying degrees in order to emphasize certain quali-ties or content. Recognizable references to original ap-pearances may be slight. The term is also used to de-scribe art that is non-representational. It is drawn out orextracted from the objective reality, unusual concep-tion, only thought or felt as against the reality seen. APainter's poetic creation is vision of impassion of realthings, no similarity to any recognisable object. Actu-ally the intention of Abstract art is to give picturesqueor illustrated form to the sensations, whether they arisein form of a concept or an object. Precisely-"Every artificially created form is known as Abstraction