Being the form of art what does abstract art represent? Abstract art is an extremely formalistic form the partisans of which represent the real world as the combination of abstract forms or color blurs (S.I. Ojegov, Dictionary of Russian Language).

For many years painting had been “tied” to certain laws requiring reproduce the forms and the objects of the real world. In the beginning of XX century many artists felt a need to create a new form of art which do not reflect any statistic shapes of reality, but serves for self-expression of the painter. It was abstraction that became the new form.

Abstract art negates in its way the realism as the traditional idea of painting like a reflection of the objects of the real world. In difference with the realism, the abstract art means elimination of reality, of imitation of the rational visual world. The abstract painting is called to evoke different associations in spectator’s mind by certain combination of colors and geometrical forms and must not be tied to any concrete objects. That’s why the abstract art is also called “non-objective” art.

Among the famous European artists who had ever created abstract paintings were Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Francis Pikabia and Uno Boccioni.