Abstract Art Painting

"Above The Clouds" Abstract Art Digital Painting

Abstract Art Painting

"Essence" abstract art digital painting.

Using Abstract Intuitive Art As Meditation

If you would like to try your hand and heart at an intuitive abstract painting all you need is your willingness to try. You don't have to be an artist. In fact, the worse you think you are at painting the more fun you will probably have with it. After all, you're not trying to create a masterpiece, you're trying to master peace.

This is what I recommend:

• Make sure your space is peaceful.
• Play some music in the background that is right for you.
• Have large canvas to work on so size does not confine you.
• Have plenty of colors to choose from that are right in front of you.
• As if you are a child, go into the act without a care in the world.
• Take delight in what you do and allow your instincts to take over.

Modern Abstract Painting

"Aria" Modern Abstract Painting

Who Created The First Abstract Landscape Painting?

Haystack by Claude Monet

In 1896 Wassily Kandinsky saw an exhibit of paintings by Monet which impressed upon his memory and shaped his intrigue for the non-recognizable.  Observing Monet's famous impressionistic Haystacks, here's what Kandinsky wrote:

"That it was a haystack the catalogue informed me. I could not recognize it. This non-recognition was painful to me. I considered that the painter had no right to paint indistinctly. I dully felt that the object of the painting was missing. And I noticed with surprise and confusion that the picture not only gripped me, but impressed itself ineradicably on my memory. Painting took on a fairy-tale power and splendour."

Winter Landscape by Wassily Kandisnky

It wasn't long before Wassily Kandinsky began creating abstract art.  Some call Kandinsky the father of abstract art.  But did he create the first abstract landscape painting?  He very well could have.   In Kandinsky's  "Winter Landscape" from 1909  you can see the impressionistic influence, but it's obvious the composition was created with the intent of painting from the mind and not from reality.   Some might argue that it was post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) who was the first to create an abstract landscape because of the way he distorted reality to express an idea. What do you think?

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

History of Art

Abstract Art is Ancient & New

Abstract art is not actually new.  It was created by the earliest indigenous people all over the world. They used simple lines, shapes, and forms to communicate with symbols. Children even create abstract art. They are known to enjoy finger painting, very intuitively actually, purely for the love of color and abstract form.  But, when it comes to genres in art movements and what exists in art museums, yes, abstract art (from recognized and celebrated artists only) came into existence around the 20th century.  So abstract art is ancient, primal, child-like, but it has been accepted in fine art museums only quite recently.