Currently I’ve discovered myself drawn to abstract artwork, because it feels like such a boundless territory. An exhibition by forty-six members of the Cercle et Carré group organised by Joaquin Torres-Garcia 32 assisted by Michel Seuphor 33 contained work by the Neo-Plasticists as well as abstractionists as assorted as Kandinsky, Anton Pevsner and Kurt Schwitters Criticised by Theo van Doesburg to be too indefinite a group he revealed the journal Art Concret setting out a manifesto defining an abstract art in which the line, coloration and surface solely, are the concrete actuality.

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Abstract artwork emphasizes a piece’s formal qualities over its representational subject matter, leading artists to experiment with completely different methods comparable to using vivid but arbitrary colours, creating new shapes, and rejecting life like three-dimensional perspective.

Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.”1 To create the work, Reinhardt mixed black oil paint with small amounts of crimson, inexperienced, or blue and allowed the paint to sit down for a number of weeks with a purpose to separate the pigment from the solvent.

The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism in 1909, which later impressed artists resembling Carlo Carra in Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells and Umberto Boccioni Practice in Movement, 1911, to an additional stage of abstraction that might, along with Cubism , profoundly influenced art movements throughout Europe.