Arte abstracto

<p><strong>Abstraction shook Western art to its core.</strong> In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with <strong>vivid visual poems </strong>devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized by allegories of <strong>emotion and sensation</strong>.<br /><br /> This<strong> radical artistic adventure </strong>established new artistic means, as much as narratives. Expression became characterized by <strong>shocking juxtapositions of color, light, and line. </strong>Artists abandoned the conventions of brush and easel and played with <strong>new materials and methods of artistic gesture</strong>: commercial paints and housepainter’s brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands.<br /><br /> This essential introduction spans the international breadth, conceptual depth, and seismic impact of abstract art with a thorough survey not only of the big names such as Picasso, Klee, Kline, Rothko, and Pollock, but also lesser-known figures who made equally significant contributions, including Antoni Tàpies, K. O. Götz, Ad Reinhardt, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.</p>