cause
no
he painted abstract art
ALL art has a subject matter.Gratuitous scribble is not art. At best it is the early attemps of an infant or it is vandalism and defacement.
It does not represent any objects or subjects from the real world.
yes he did have formal art training when he was 11 years of age
nonrepresentational
no
He Did Abstract Art:)!
Kazimir Malevich
Nonrepresentational art is also called non-figurative or abstract. It means a picture which does not depict anything, only shape and color. Click link for some examples! Representational (figurative) art depicts something (person, thing, landscape, etc).
Wassily Kandinsky
art
Modern abstract
Kandinsky published his Über das Geistliche in der Kunst(Concerning the Spiritual in Art) in 1911.
Paint and teach art.
Paint
The opposite of realism is falseness, fantasy, or fakery. As it pertains to art, the opposite of realism is nonrepresentational art or abstract art.