Geometric abstraction

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Geometric abstraction refers to the art direction of abstract painting or sculpture, but sometimes it goes beyond its limits. She uses geometric objects such as square, rectangle, triangle, circles and ellipses. Typical of the geometric abstraction are clearly recognizable lines and the division of the image content into individual areas. The color palette used includes primary colors and achromatic colors such as black, white and gray, in all tones. The image content is therefore not representational. The picture completely dispenses with objective content. The focus is on the interplay of colors and shapes.

Based on the theories of Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg , Concrete Art developed from this .

The term geometric abstraction is very common around the world. In the German-speaking and cultural area, however, less so because there is predominantly a strict line drawn between the abstract representation of concrete pictorial objects ( abstract art ) and the concretization of abstract thoughts, emotions or processes in artistic works ( concrete art ). The concrete artist Max Bill z. B. would certainly not agree with an American gallery classifying one of his works as Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction . The dividing line to abstract art is overshadowed by the term geometric abstraction by encompassing both artistic positions. That probably goes back to the influential cosmopolitan artist group Abstraction-Création , founded in France in 1931 by Georges Vantongerloo among others , with many very prominent members. The name of the group describes the wide range of art styles represented in it. “Création” stands for the creation of a work of art out of nothing , more precisely without a material starting point: that is, the position of the later Concrete Art. In order to unite as many "progressive" artists as possible in this group, an attempt was made to blur the existing dividing lines, but (to this day) it was not possible to do without distinctive terms: lyrical abstraction (French abstraction lyrique) and geometric abstraction ( abstraction géométrique ) .

In North American art after 1945, several art directions (and their worldwide offshoots) see themselves in the tradition of geometric abstraction , for example post-painterly abstraction, hard edge , color field painting and minimalism.

Representative of geometric abstraction

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alpha 137 Gallery, Max Bill [1] , accessed May 12, 2019
  2. ↑ wiki, Geometric abstraction, in American English Geometric abstraction
  3. ↑ wiki, Post-painterly abstraction, in American English Post-painterly abstraction
  4. ↑ wiki, Hard-edge painting, in American English Hard-edge painting
  5. ↑ wiki, Color field, in American English Color field
  6. ↑ wiki, Minimalism, in American English Minimalism
  7. ↑ Iris Müller-Westermann, Jo Widoff: Hilma af Klint - A pioneer of abstraction. Hatje Cantz 2013.