What is abstract painting? How to appreciate abstract paintings? It has always been a matter of "it can be understood, but it is difficult to express".

Great realism vs. great abstraction are the two mainstreams of art.

In 1912, Kandinsky published an important essay "On the Question of Form" that shocked the international art world in Munich's "Annals of the Blaue Reiter." The article pointed out: "There are two main mainstreams in art, one is Grand Realism, and the other is It is the great abstraction. The two are like two branches of a tree, and I want to carry forward the great abstraction." This paper directly points out that "abstraction" and "realism" are the two extremes of artistic expression. A contrary but constant trend in the history of art. Indeed, looking at abstract paintings is like appreciating music. People can feel Beethoven's special feelings and admiration for his "hero" in "Symphony No. 3" without "understanding" the notes. Music, which is not attached to nature, is a purely abstract art. Therefore Kandinsky once said: "Painting is a combination and arrangement of images and colors, a representation of mood, rather than a representation of objects." He also said: "Abstract painting is 'visual music'."< /p>

When appreciating abstract paintings, transform the elements that make up abstract art, such as image, color, line and space, into the true feelings of inner emotions that are equivalent to music, and use your heart to experience the impact it brings to you. Use your emotions to feel the message that the author wants to convey to you, trust your intuition, do not impose identification, and eventually it will resonate with the beauty. This is a "visual metaphor" rather than a "visual narrative", and then achieve Kandinsky’s “form without name”.

Abstract painting is different from other paintings. The appreciation of abstract painting is actually to appreciate the feelings (emotions) given to the work by the author, either in terms of composition or color. ． ． In fact, all works of art express the emotions of the author. From ancient times to the present, paintings have been appreciated by a small group of people with high aesthetic standards in society. Most of the works created by painters have a certain purpose and are It's not a riddle for everyone to guess. Abstract painting is nothing more than a painter's high-level summary and refinement of the real world. It is a conceptual form of expression.