{"id":19,"date":"2016-02-08T21:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2017-02-17T14:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:07:02","slug":"abstract-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/abstract-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Abstract art is often referred to as non-representational art.\u00a0 This is because such art departs from the once standard assumption that art represents the real world of people (and other creatures), places, and things.\u00a0 But beginning in the early twentieth century, artists began to make paintings that did not represent easily identified things.\u00a0 The paintings in this unit are all examples of such abstract art.\u00a0 After you look at and discuss the paintings, the philosophy unit will raise issues about what it is for something to be abstract.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/abstract-art-1\/\">Start:<strong> Abstract Art<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Exploration<\/strong> \u2192<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Select a piece from below to pick up where you left off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/abstract-art-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-90 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Vassily_Kandinsky_1923_-_Circles_in_a_Circle-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"1. What are the most prominent features of this painting? 2. How does the presence of the intersecting tan and green figures affect your experience of the painting? The large black circle? 3. Are there any elements of the painting that remind you of landscapes? Of anything else? 4. Do you think this painting is beautiful?\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/abstract-art-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-87 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Piet_Mondriaan_Victory_Boogie_Woogie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"1. What features of this painting strike you right away? 2. Does the painting remind you of anything? 3. If it does, do you think the painting is not really abstract? 4. How does the title of the painting affect your viewing of it? Do you know what \u201cvictory\u201d and \u201cboogie woogie\u201d refer to?\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Piet_Mondriaan_Victory_Boogie_Woogie-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Piet_Mondriaan_Victory_Boogie_Woogie-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Piet_Mondriaan_Victory_Boogie_Woogie-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Piet_Mondriaan_Victory_Boogie_Woogie-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/abstract-art-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-89 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/RothkoFourDarksRed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"1. How does this painting differ from the other abstract paintings you have seen? 2. How do the large, rectangular fields of color affect you? 3. What do you think the artist is trying to communicate? 4. Do you think this painting is beautiful?\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2017\/01\/Philosophy-@-The-Virtual-Art-Museum-Abstract-Art.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to get the printable version of this section.<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract art is often referred to as non-representational art.\u00a0 This is because such art departs from the once standard assumption that art represents the real world of people (and other creatures), places, and things.\u00a0 But beginning in the early twentieth century, artists began to make paintings that did not represent easily identified things.\u00a0 The paintings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}