THE ORIGINS OF ABSTRACTION AND ITS SUBSEQUENT PARTICULARITIES

Abstract

Originating at the end of the first decade of the 20thCentury, abstract art marks a major shift in the conceptions about art,the most radical of those put forward by the numerous currentsappeared in the same period. It brought about the most dramaticprocess of breaking all ties with the past belief that art was meant to bea representation of the visible world.An analysis of abstract art might seem an obsolete subject atpresent, one hundred years after it appeared. Still, the multitude ofapproaches that were grouped under this large concept, the complexparticularities that have appeared over time, as well as its continuity invarious forms up to the present, make it a vast, multi-faceted object ofresearch in continuous renewal, and therefore of current interest.