🟥 What Is Abstract Art?
4th Grade 🎨 Art
Abstract art doesn’t try to show things the way they look. It uses shapes, colors and lines to share a feeling or an idea.
No need to look real
An abstract painting might be big blocks of color, splashes, swirls or lines. The artist wants you to feel something, not just recognize a person or a tree.
Famous abstract artists
Wassily Kandinsky painted some of the first abstract pictures around 1910. Piet Mondrian used black lines and red, yellow and blue squares. The American artist Jackson Pollock dripped and splattered paint on huge canvases on the floor.
Make your own
Pick a feeling — like excitement — and paint it using only colors and shapes. What colors feel exciting to you?
Quick quiz
What does abstract art focus on?
Which American artist dripped paint on canvases?
Who painted some of the first abstract pictures?