Abstract art has been painted (or drawn or done in graphic techniques) by thousands of artists in the 20th century and still today. Jackson Pollock has painted really good ones. Abstract art is also painted by Pablo Picasso. It IS done today by people all over the world.
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Pablo Picasso was not an abstract artist, he was a cubist. Cubism represents "abstracted" objects from reality and abstract art does not depict any ties to worldly objects, figures or scenes. Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian created the first purely abstract works in the early 20th century.
The members of the French Royal Academy gave the lowest rankings to Dutch portraits and still-lifes. The members of the French Royal Academy gave the lowest rankings to the classical art.
The afterlife was a main concern of the Egyptian civilization.
developed the use of abstarction
international gothic
proportion and perspective.
a natural setting
engineer
Their rationality
Humanism emphasized human rationality.
balance and symmetry
late medieval italy
The contrast between bright clothing and a dark background (apex)
RAPHAEL (apex)
Mathematical perspective
If you take a photograph from far enough above the earth, it looks like a map. Satellite photographs look like maps, for example.