Understanding Abstract Art

This video provides a concise overview of the history of abstract art in Western culture, which began much earlier than you might have thought. Topics include a definition of abstraction as well as non-objective art, Mannerism, Abstract Expressionism, and more.

[susanwallace]

This one of BEST video synopses I've seen/heard to help high school art students will little to no background understand ABSTRACTION in art! So affirming and helpful for me, someone who has been teaching ART & ART HISTORY for @ least 3 decades (plus)! It moved along, was never boring, was clearly explained and the right length to hold on'e attention! Thanks so MUCH! I'm grateful and thrilled! I'll be showing it this week to my beginning high school art students!

[richardhawleytrowbridge]

This is great. Learned, entertaining, down to earth, informative with lots of examples. I would have never thought of the Justinian the Great mosaic as abstract!

[northwesterncorgi]

Ten minutes extremely well spent - I'm just getting to grips with UK abstract painter Jeremy Moon - and this excellent video has been of enormous help - many thanks indeed.

[jacquieprothero]

This has been really helpful, as an abstract painter it’s good to have clarity and a better understanding of what it is and the history. Thank you.

[THICCTHICCTHICC]

Thank you for this - I had no idea there was such a long history of abstract art. I just assumed the bulk of it began around the impressionist era, but evidently I was centuries out.

[kottusekhar]

Comprehensive and insightful. This video captures the meaning and all the dimensions of abstract art in a consummate manner. i am enlightened. Thanks.

[MrIrons-ogrg]

Thank you very much. Can't wait to have my own Art Gallery here in Jamaica.

[ericd]

I just discoverd your site. Wow ! What a joy and fresh approach to break down the vast art world to easily digestible and understandable parts. Thank you! Four videos in and I have already learned so much and now hunger for more.

[curtdilger]

I enjoyed your presentation. One way I like to think of it. Successful abstraction allows people to read many associations to reality, and successful realism always provokes us to look for an underlying abstract structure underneath it. Just like our tendency to read 3 dimensions on a flat surface. What's important in work that represents 3 dimensions is how it resolves on the flat plane, the flatness of depth, and the best 2d work implies layers of space or implied depth, the depth of flatness.

[alicejump]

Recent discussion with a very skilled artisan about judge choices in a community art show and how our works were relegated into categories which seemed unrelated to each other! Your short but informative presentation showed the way toward understanding of how non-realistic art forms dictated the “winning” art pieces! I struggled to explain the concepts but you have done an amazing job of teaching us!

[littlerascal]

Sitting here in the studio trying to figure out what the heck am I this pops up. This was absolutely fantastic. Well-timed soul food. And many thanks. More, please. :)

[amanr]

Wow! This was superb! And clarified many things. It also explains why I love abstract expressionism and don’t quite know why! 😀

[AtelierJay]

Fabulous explanation of "Abstract' in contextual nature.., a written/spoken expression a

[BrightJordan]

Brilliantly explained, thank you Susan!

[kwalityproducts]

Thanks a lot for taking up this subject, very well explained many thanks.

[gurr]

This is wonderful. Great explanation and footages! Thank you

[mariodrvotadebarbieri]

Vermeer and the dutch were not using perspective, they were using the camera obsura model. Renaissance and cartesian perspective was introduced in art as an incorporation of mathematics in daily life.

[amredrisco]

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[c.retana-holguin]

Thank you for this lecture Professor! I understand abstraction a bit better.