1. ABSTRACTIONISM
By: Bhakti Patel, Reeva Bourdic, Kiley Baringer

2. Abstractionism
 1910’s to mid 1900’s
 Defined:
 Using abstract art principles to represent internal
thoughts
 Using color and shapes to get the ‘idea’ of the subject
across
 Influenced by Impressionism, Fauvism, and
Cubism
 Happening all over the world (Kandinsky and
Malevich in Russia, O’Keeffe in America,
Mondrian in the Netherlands)

3. Abstractionism
 Abstract Art-
 art that does not represent anything, but tries
to achieve effect using shape, color, and line
 imagery which departs from representational
accuracy

4. Forms of Abstractionism
 Geometric-
 Structural and has a mathematic design. (Comes
from Cubism)
 Organic (Non-Geometric)-
 An irregular shape. Could be found in nature.
 inner self, curvilinear, decorative.
 Lyrical-
 Has an emotional or spiritual connection

5. Wassily Kandinsky
 Born: December 16th ,1866 in Moscow
 Died: December 13th,1944
 Played: Cello and Piano
 Named artwork as compositions because he
had a strong correlation with music
 Believed that colors provoke emotions

6.  Started painting after visiting the French
Impressionists exhibition in Moscow and the
viewing of Monet’s, Haystacks at Giverny and
Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin
 Believed that paintings should be connected
with music

7.  Kandinsky’s work today is in exhibition across
Europe and North America
 Famous for his Composition VIII and
Transversal Lines
 People had mixed feelings about his work

8. Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor), 1910

9. Composition VIII (1923)

10. Transverse Lines (1923)

11. Kasmir Malevich
 Full name: Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
 Born: February 23, 1879 – May 15, 1935
 Studied: painting, sculptures, architecture, and
wrote
 Where he studied: Mascow School of
Painting, Sculpture, architetcture
 Was involved in many exhibtitions
 Childhood: peasant embroidery, decorated walls
and stoves, painted in peasant style

12.  Influences on work: aerial photography,
aviation, revolutions in Russia,
Kandinsky, Larionov, cubism,
expressionism
 Role in Art World: laid down the
foundation if Suprematism
 Publish Manifesto: From Cubism to
Suprematism
 Taught at some schools and wrote the
book The World as Non- Objectivity

13. The Black
Square, 19
15, Kasmir
Malevich

14. White on
White, 1918
, Kasmir
Malevich

15. Georgia O’Keeffe
 Born November 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
 Knew she wanted to be an artist at a young age
 Traveled often
 Married Photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1923
 Loved the “American West” (Texas, New Mexico)
 Died in 1986 in Santa Fe at the age of 98

16. Her Legacy
 The art world was dominated by men when
her paintings became famous
 “The men liked to put me down as the best
woman painter. I think I’m one of the best
painters”
 Awards:
 1977- Received Medal of Freedom from President
Gerald Ford, for her achievements in art
 1985- Awarded National Medal of Arts by
President Ronald Regan

17. Her Art and Influences
 Influenced by: Modern photography, Nature,
“The American West,” and Fauvism
 Use of Color
 Use of Shapes

18. Music, Pink and Blue No. 2 (1918)

19. Blue Black and Grey (1960)

20. Red Cana (1923) Flower Abstraction (1924)

21. Blue Flower (1918)

22. Cow Skull with Calico Roses (1931)

23. Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills (1935)

24. Reactions
 Her paintings of flowers make
the viewer feel “as if we were
human butterflies”
 “The observer feels like Alice
after she had inbibed the ‘Drink
Me’ phial” –James W. Lane
Apollo magazine 1938
 Others thought her paintings
were “unabashedly sensual”
The Miracle Flower (1936)

25. PIET MONDRIAN
•Born: March 7, 1872 in the Netherlands
•Was a theorist, writer, and artist, reflected
the underlying spirituality of nature.
•Liked simple and basic
•Logical manner
•Uses basic colors and forms
•Wrote: Neo-Plasticism and now is key
document for abstractionism

26.  One of the founders of De-stijl
 Major influences: Vincent Van
Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Pablo
Picasso, Cubism, impressionism, Fav
ism

27. Composition
in Brown
and Grey,
Piet
Mondrian,
1913

28. Composition A, 1923, Piet Mondrian