Contemporary Abstract Painting Ensures Desired Effects

Contemporary abstract painting is a type of art that does not represent the accurate description of any visual reality rather makes use of gestural marks, forms, colours or shapes to achieve the desired effects.

The meaning of word abstract is to withdraw or separate one thing from the other. This term is applied to contemporary abstract painting which is based on landscape, figure or object , where all the forms are either schematized or simplified. 


Contemporary abstract painting makes use of gestural marks or geometric shapes that have no source of any visual external reality. Many of the artists prefer to use the term as non- objective art or concrete art, but in real practice, the word abstract is used over the distinction and board in between the two which may not be so obvious.

Contemporary abstract painting is often regarded as the art which carries moral dimensions and stands for virtues like spirituality, simplicity, purity and order. In the early 1990s, the abstract painting had been termed as modern art.

Contemporary abstract art makes use of visual colour line, form or shape to create such a composition which may exist with a degree of independence in the visual references of the world. Contemporary abstract art is non- representational, non- objective and non- figurative art depicting loosely related themes. They could be similar but may not have an identical meaning.

Contemporary abstract art indicates the departure of art from reality in its imagery art. Such departure of the actual representation could be complete, partial or slight. Abstraction exists with the continuum. Contemporary art that aims for verisimilitude of the greatest degree can be termed as abstract. Such artworks which take up liberties, instant colour alterations and conspicuous ways could be termed as partially abstract art. Contemporary art with total abstraction has no trace of any recognizable pattern. In the case of geometric abstraction, there are no references to any natural entity. Total abstraction and figurative art are mutually exclusive. But in realistic or representational art there is often a partial abstraction. Lyrical and geometric abstractions have total abstraction.

Characteristics of contemporary Abstract Art

The main characteristic of contemporary abstract paintings is that it is non- representational in practice, which means that the art movement which embraces abstraction departs from the accurate representation. This departure depends on the type of art movement which is being talked about. All the makers of contemporary abstract art make use of visual, memory and colour sensations to depict the reality of the subject. This is the most important characteristic of contemporary abstract art. The subjective approach of contemporary abstract art coincides to the similar approaches of social sciences, especially in philosophy.

There is a return of various art movements in the 21st century as a result of technological development lie the abstract art, hard- edge painting, internet and computer art and digital art. There is a huge comeback of contemporary abstract paintings and we could see many great painters call themselves as abstractionists.

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