Abstract Canvas Art
Many people try to understand abstract art and walk away frustrated at the attempt. It will help to understand something about the history of abstract canvas art and how it first began, thus gaining a perspective of its philosophical and cultural origins. Abstract art has also been referred to as non-objective art. Beginning at the time of the Post Impressionists, Gauguin and Van Gogh and other painters were endeavoring to put their inner world, as well as nature, on canvas. Since the time of the Renaissance, artist had expressed visible reality and linear perspective in painting. With the advance of technology and changes in science and philosophical views, at the end of the 19th century artists were now seeking a new way to express these changes in their art. An early reaction to the Impressionists art movement was Expressionism, the bold use of painting in distorted imagery with intense color and often shocking forms of known objects. Examples of this art can be found in the pai