Does anyone know about Abstract Art?

Abstract Art is a tern used to describe paintings/sculptures that abandon the traditional European concept of art as an imitation of nature. It is the reduction of natural appearances and construction of works of art from non-representational basic forms. It is spontaneous and a form of 'free' expression.There are many sub-categories under abstraction and some of these are constructivism, suprematism, de stilji, neo plasticism, expressionism and abstract expressionism. Some of the more famous artists are Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) who stresses on the importances of spirituality. Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) who headed the art movement de stijl, believes that binary opposites like static and the dynamic, horizontal and vertical, negative and the positive should be brought into equilibrium. While Jackson Pollock, as mentioned in the above answer, was involved in gestural/action painting. It is painting with no preconceived idea of what the final painting will be like. It can be ...  more