Talk:Abstract art

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[edit] abstract art

I'm trying to add an external link to the Art Renewal Center about abstract art. Someone keeps removing it?

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I find that many of the definitions brought up in this article are at odds with each other - including the first line. Abstract art has as its base; abstraction. Abstraction isn't necessarily non-representation. Non-representation and abstraction are not necessarily in the same bed together. While people like Kandinsky and Mondrian did often engage in what we can mostly agree on as stuff that does not represent anything, they also developed much of their work around observation of the natural world. The work they created from these observations certainly doesn't fall under the Thomas Kinkade mandate of representation - but - it does represent something.

I think what this article is doing is mixing up definitions of Non-Objective art and Abstract Art. In most art history and/or terminology books - these two forms of art are distinct and separate from each other.

For the reader above - I'm sure the ARC link continues to be removed because the ARC proposes to limit our knowledge of art instead of expanding it. 74.136.9.70 15:49, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Gosh, I didn't know about these guys. Very illuminating - talk about false polarities - and their website does read a lot like New Age kookiness applied to Fine Art - viz, there is a Grand Conspiracy suppressing the (visual) Truth. The funny thing is that I have recently noticed that an awful lot of stuff by their idol, William-Adolphe Bouguereau is used on Wikipedia - in particular as illustrations for articles on mythology. Probably just an accident, but could be a systematic tendency. Tarquin Binary 03:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Isn't representation abstraction? No matter how accurately something represents another thing is it ever a perfect representation of that thing? No. Therefore it is an abstraction of what it is representing. Bus stop 04:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nonsence typing

Someone has typed partially random text into this article. If this happens again, or has happened in the past I would suggest Semi-protection of this page. I think it may be vunrerble due to the topic. Ultra two 17:37, 27 November 2006 (UTC)