Driven to Abstraction

Discussing and defining abstract art, from the Stone Age to the Modern Era…

Abstract is a word often misused when talking about art. Some critics doubt that truly abstract art can ever be produced through human agency and is therefore impossible! Basically, abstract art needs to be purely formal without any figurative reference. More precisely, abstract work should contain nothing that remains representational.

Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky was, arguably, the first to successfully achieve abstraction as an art…