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“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” Pablo Picasso.

Abstract Paintings are not an exact representation of an object; they evoke a visual perspective of reality. With the coming of Abstraction, artists started making big transformations to an unconventional art. Altering color and form, for example, they were able to either simplify or exaggerate the physical object, keeping a slight depiction of the original natural subject, and avoiding to make things totally recognizable.

In the 19th century, the Romanticism (William Blake, Theodore Gericault), and Impressionism (Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir) had enormous influence towards Abstract Art, achieving more form and structure as well as more expression and emotion into their paintings. Their approach that moved gradually to a dominant Abstract Art was that subjects were transformed from nature to the point where they no longer reflect a predictable reality.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Post-Impressionism (Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh) led away towards Cubism (George Braque, Pablo Picasso) and Fauvism (Henry Matisse). With these two major movements, the vision of art, drastically changed to manipulate even more the emotional states of the human being. The simplification of reality, where detail is eliminated leaving only some degree of recognizable form; the idea that color, shape, line, and form could be the subject of the painting; and the introduction of different textures and surfaces; developed a powerful non-representational, non-figurative or non-objective art.

All these changes had a huge impact on Contemporary American Artists in the 1940s, during the World War II. With a strong influence from famous European painters, the Abstract Expressionism (Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko), was originated in the context of diversity. Emphasizing on performing art in a spontaneous way, this art movement best known as “The New York School” or “Action Painting” (Jackson Pollock), paid attention to the surface quality, impulsive intensity and self-expression.

Abstract Art and Abstraction involve and explore basic human emotions, and therefore, Abstract Paintings manipulate people’s feelings creating emotions that they otherwise would have never imaging.

This explains why Abstract Art is my Passion. It opens my mind to something unimaginable. It brings thoughts, experiences and feelings you can only find in something you truly love.