Here are 10 different abstract styles of painting, each with its own unique characteristics. Maybe one will interest you!
- Abstract Expressionism
Emphasizes spontaneous, gestural brushwork and emotional intensity (e.g., Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning). - Geometric Abstraction
Focuses on clean lines, shapes, and mathematical precision (e.g., Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich). - Lyrical Abstraction
Emphasizes personal expression and softer, more poetic forms—often fluid and harmonious. - Color Field Painting
Large areas of a single color or soft color gradients meant to evoke emotion (e.g., Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler). - Minimalism
Reduces painting to the bare essentials—simple forms, limited palette, and clean execution (e.g., Agnes Martin, Frank Stella). - Suprematism
Russian movement focused on basic geometric forms and pure artistic feeling (e.g., Kazimir Malevich). - Tachisme
A European counterpart to Abstract Expressionism, using blotches, drips, and expressive marks. - Hard-Edge Painting
Features crisp, clean edges and flat areas of color, often with a mechanical or impersonal aesthetic. - Automatism
Originating in Surrealism, uses subconscious and chance-based methods to guide brushwork and composition (e.g., Joan Miró). - Futurist Abstraction
Emphasizes movement, speed, and technology through dynamic shapes and energetic lines (e.g., Giacomo Balla).
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All abstract art is an excuse to defile that which is natural. The human form, the landscape etc. No subect matter escapes the degradation of abstractionists.
The so called “artist”painting abstractly must seek out art speak babble to find excuses for the sheer lack of respect given to the natural world. Such “artists” and their egos must always strive to come up with yet new ways degrade and showcase how cleverly they have developed their “style/way” of “bodly” expressing their interpretation of the “ugliness of the modern world”. They fail to realize their effortd are in fact, contributing to that very “ugliness of the modern world”. What a sham!
Was abstract painting what you did if you never learned to paint well? Was its source laziness, or something else? If a person were to learn to paint an abstract painting well, good, excellent, and masterful, what would it possess that would make it that? How does one tell the difference between a Rothko painting, for example, done well or poorly executed? What’s the difference?
This is an interesting article. Thank you for sharing. I would be curious to know some examples of artists who paint in the Tachisme style of abstract painting since you didn’t list any. I would also be curious to know what category of Abstract you would place my “Lost” and “Found” abstracts.