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 Oil Painting Abstract Red Tree Forest Lake Modern Art Wall Decor 24X36 Stretched $98.95 End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 17:39:10 PDT Buy It Now for only: $98.95 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 ORIGINAL ROBERT ATOM PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN ARCHITECTURAL $35.00 End Date: Monday May-21-2012 4:21:00 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 KEN JOAQUIN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN VTG ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SIGNED $72.00 (10 Bids) End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 16:57:06 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Thick Impasto Abstract Early C20th Signed Stael NR $36.00 (5 Bids) End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 20:00:52 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 BENJAMIN HAZARD LISTED MID CENTURY ABSTRACT MODERNIST LANDSCAPE OIL $649.99 End Date: Monday Jun-11-2012 13:41:20 PDT Buy It Now for only: $649.99 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 FANTASTIC 1969 Provincetown Abstract Oil Painting by Egleston Mid Century $255.00 (2 Bids) End Date: Monday May-21-2012 17:24:14 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIG EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN SPACE ROCKET SC FI $41.00 (2 Bids) End Date: Monday May-21-2012 19:18:27 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIG EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN SPACE SHIP UFO SC FI $43.00 (2 Bids) End Date: Monday May-21-2012 19:09:03 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 RPARRET MID CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT MODERNIST ART OIL PAINTING LATE 1960S $195.00 End Date: Tuesday Jun-5-2012 16:42:12 PDT Buy It Now for only: $195.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 KEN JOAQUIN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN VTG ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SIGNED $178.50 (15 Bids) End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 16:57:19 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 VINTAGE ASIAN KOREAN JAPANESE MODERNIST ABSTRACT PAINTING SIGNED OIL ON CANVAS $76.00 (16 Bids) End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 19:36:42 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIG EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN SPACE ROCKET SC FI $40.00 End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 19:03:48 PDT Buy It Now for only: $100.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ABSTRACT ORIGINAL Painting Large 24X48 Aspen Landscape Fine Art by Thomas John $199.70 End Date: Friday Jun-8-2012 10:17:48 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.70 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 KEN JOAQUIN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN VTG ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SIGNED $50.06 (10 Bids) End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 16:57:28 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN VINTAGE AIRLINE STEWARDESS $70.00 (1 Bid) End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 19:06:14 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Original Watercolor MODERN by R MICHAEL WOMMACK Lake mountain blue abstract ART $69.99 End Date: Monday May-21-2012 5:29:10 PDT Buy It Now for only: $99.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Carlo of Hollywood Mid Century Abstract Oil Painting Cityscape 51 by 39 $175.95 End Date: Tuesday Jun-12-2012 14:34:00 PDT Buy It Now for only: $175.95 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 3 EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTINGS RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN SPACE SCI FI ROCKET MOD $91.00 (2 Bids) End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 19:00:20 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 WPA Modernist Abstract Colorist Southwest Landscape Painting Oscar Bluemner Styl $61.00 (8 Bids) End Date: Friday May-25-2012 17:40:22 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIG EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN SPACE SHIP UFO SC FI $40.00 End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 19:00:50 PDT Buy It Now for only: $100.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 VINTAGE 1967 DR IVAN VASEY MODERNIST ABSTRACT UNDERSEA MONOPRINT PAINTING $425.00 End Date: Friday Jun-15-2012 12:36:33 PDT Buy It Now for only: $425.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN ARCHITECTURE HULA TIKI BAR $50.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 19:06:47 PDT Buy It Now for only: $125.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 NIETO PAINTING LISTED AMERICAN MODERNISM CONTEMPORARY COYOTE ABSTRACT $61.00 (9 Bids) End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 14:01:58 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 KEN JOAQUIN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN VTG ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SIGNED $35.00 (3 Bids) End Date: Friday May-25-2012 16:57:17 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIGINAL PAINTIG Abstract Cityscape Earth Tone Large 24X48 Art By Thomas John $199.70 End Date: Tuesday Jun-12-2012 22:23:19 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.70 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Listed African Artist Kre Mbaye Famous Senegal Portrait Modernist Canvas 1997 $24.99 (1 Bid) End Date: Monday May-21-2012 23:26:11 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Vintage Abstract Modernist Watercolor Sketch Sailboats French School 1920s $250.00 End Date: Monday May-21-2012 16:28:08 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIG EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN PIN UP GIRL CAT NUDE $41.00 (2 Bids) End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 19:12:57 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Abstract Oil Painting Wall Art Decor Modern On Canvas Contemporary Textured VG53 $94.98 End Date: Monday Jun-11-2012 14:55:57 PDT Buy It Now for only: $94.98 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 ORIG EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN SPACE SHIP UFO SC FI $81.00 (7 Bids) End Date: Monday May-21-2012 19:15:30 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 GUZMAN CALIFORNIA PLEIN AIR EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM ABSTRACT LOS OSOS LANDSCAPE $36.00 (4 Bids) End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 12:54:23 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIG EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO EAMES MID CENTURY MODERN TIKI BAR CAT HAWAII $66.00 (5 Bids) End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 19:09:10 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Superb Contemporary Art Painting Oil on Canvas $105.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 17:48:09 PDT Buy It Now for only: $105.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 KEN JOAQUIN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN VTG ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SIGNED $20.50 (6 Bids) End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 16:57:26 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Juan Bernal Ponce Chilean Mid Century Modernist Abstract Original Oil Painting $950.00 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 15:01:14 PDT Buy It Now for only: $1,425.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Juan Bernal Ponce Modernist Abstract Original Oil Painting Chilean Artist 1960s $329.99 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 14:07:10 PDT Buy It Now for only: $489.99 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 TSCHACBASOV 1899 1984 AUDREY McMAHON WPA DIR 1937 PORTRAIT $18,500.00 End Date: Thursday May-31-2012 1:17:37 PDT Buy It Now for only: $18,500.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Juan Bernal Ponce Modernist Abstract Original Oil Painting Chilean Artist 1960s $329.99 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 14:23:56 PDT Buy It Now for only: $489.99 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 NR Huge 36x48 Abstract Modernist Musicians Charcoal Pntng ROSE KUPER 1888 1987 $0.99 (1 Bid) End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 19:56:47 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Vintage Modernist Oil Painting signed Gromaire after Marcel Gromaire $95.00 End Date: Monday May-21-2012 16:46:31 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ABSTRACT ORIGINAL Modern Painting Large 24X48 Verticle Fine Art by Thomas John $199.70 End Date: Wednesday May-30-2012 8:33:03 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.70 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 AHARON GILADI LISTED ISRAEL VINTAGE ABSTRACT PAINTING FIGURATIVE MODERNISM $100.00 (12 Bids) End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 16:09:11 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ED WEBER VINTAGE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM NON OBJECTIVE PAINTING $90.00 (5 Bids) End Date: Friday May-25-2012 15:19:25 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Elmo May 1985 Abstract Expressiont Oil Diptych California NY Artist 2 panels $0.99 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 19:06:40 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIGINAL PAINTING Abstract Modern Large Fashion 24X48 Fine Art by Thomas John $199.70 End Date: Monday Jun-18-2012 10:11:37 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.70 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 VINTAGE ABSTRACT PLEIN AIR PAINTING LANDSCAPE EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SIGNED $12.34 (1 Bid) End Date: Friday May-25-2012 11:33:05 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 GUZMAN CALIFORNIA PLEIN AIR EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM ABSTRACT MONTEREY LANDSCAPE $51.00 (5 Bids) End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 12:54:10 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 J J McVicker Oklahoma Modernist Scape 2 Abstract Color Aquatint $629.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 14:35:25 PDT Buy It Now for only: $949.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 VINTAGE ABSTRACT MODERNIST OIL PAINTING $140.00 End Date: Thursday Jun-14-2012 8:18:23 PDT Buy It Now for only: $140.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 KEN JOAQUIN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN VTG ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SIGNED $41.00 (9 Bids) End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 16:57:06 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 VINTAGE ABSTRACT PLEIN AIR PAINTING LANDSCAPE EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SIGNED $12.34 End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 18:02:24 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 OPTICAL ABSTRACT STILL LIFE WINE OIL PAINTING SIGNED MODERNIST MODERN OP ART NR $180.00 End Date: Monday May-21-2012 10:42:00 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 EDWARD OKRASKELISTED PAMODERNIST MID CENTURY DRIP PAINTINGRARE SIGNED $775.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 20:54:01 PDT Buy It Now for only: $775.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 James McCray Abstract Expressionist San Francisco School 1960 $1,150.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 7:42:47 PDT Buy It Now for only: $1,275.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Harold Black Abstract Expressionist New York National Academy 1960 Modernist $1,850.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 7:42:45 PDT Buy It Now for only: $2,250.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 JUNE HARVEY MID CENTURY VTG ABSTRACT MODERNISM FLORAL PAINTING FLOWERS VASE JUG $16.49 (4 Bids) End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 16:09:32 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ABSTRACT ORIGINAL Painting Large 24X48 Textured Impasto Fine Art by Thomas John $199.70 End Date: Monday May-21-2012 9:36:07 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.70 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 SAMBA Original Brazil MODERN ART Diptych Acrylic Painting Stretched Signed $69.95 End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 20:46:55 PDT Buy It Now for only: $84.95 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 BOLD COLORFUL MODERNIST IMPASTO O C FISH MOTIF ABSTRACT FUN $74.99 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 20:41:25 PDT Buy It Now for only: $99.99 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Mystery Vintage MODERN ABSTRACT ART Painting Appears to be Signed PF or PB $125.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 18:52:43 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Important JOHN TWEDDLE 1957 Abstract Painting American Mid Century Modernism $1,795.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 13:25:35 PDT Buy It Now for only: $1,795.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 WWII Abstract American MODERNIST Stll Life French School of Paris Ecole de 1950 $350.00 End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 12:16:05 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Modernist Abstract Orig Gouache On paper 15 x 18 Unframed Signed illegible $125.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 12:00:33 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Vintage Abstract modernist modern art Original painting Gallery piece Signed $14.99 (1 Bid) End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 12:03:22 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ABSTRACT METAL Art Large 24X48 Original Modern Fine Art Painting By Thomas John $199.70 End Date: Friday Jun-15-2012 14:18:07 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.70 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 1950 French PAUL P LAMBERT OIL PAINTING Le Pont Neuf PARIS CITY listed SIGNED $9.99 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 19:15:56 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Modernist abstract oil painting Blues Greens Greys Whites $28.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 6:32:32 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 J J McVicker Oklahoma Modernist Printmaker Dark Structure Color Aquatint $579.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 14:35:25 PDT Buy It Now for only: $895.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ABSTRACT ORIGINAL Painting Seascape Large 24X48 Green Ocean Fine Art Thomas John $199.70 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 8:24:01 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.70 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 J J McVicker Modernist Prairie Fantasy Color Aquatint Collage $629.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 14:35:25 PDT Buy It Now for only: $949.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 J J McVicker Oklahoma Modernist Egyptian Series 1 Exhibited Color Aquatint $629.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 14:35:25 PDT Buy It Now for only: $949.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 EL GATO GOMEZ PAINTING RETRO ATOMIC MID CENTURY MODERN SPACE SHIPS SCI FI ROCKET $49.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 10:25:43 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Framed Handmade Large Contemporary Abstract Wall Art Oil Painting GPhtp222 $149.99 End Date: Tuesday Jun-19-2012 23:32:13 PDT Buy It Now for only: $149.99 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Coreen Spellman Earth Contours Important Early Texas Modernist circa 1960s $295.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 17:51:21 PDT Buy It Now for only: $495.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 BRAZIL SAMBA Original Diptych ACRYLIC PAINTING Modern ART Signed Stretched $64.95 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 19:03:44 PDT Buy It Now for only: $79.95 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Coreen Spellman Je Ne Sais Quoi Texas Modernist Watercolor circa 1950s $295.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 17:51:21 PDT Buy It Now for only: $495.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ORIGINAL Mid Century ABSTRACT Art Gouache PAINTING Listed ARTist ROLPH SCARLETT $1,095.00 End Date: Tuesday Jun-19-2012 7:42:36 PDT Buy It Now for only: $1,095.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Josephine Mahaffey Abstract Expressionist Madonna Child Blockprint $29.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 13:16:29 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Josephine Mahaffey Abstract Madonna Child Blockprint $25.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 14:38:40 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ROBERT SELLEM VINTAGE MODERNIST ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST YOGA OIL PAINTING LISTED $495.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 18:03:35 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Original MODERN W C Painting Man Pushing M Diddel $53.90 End Date: Tuesday Jun-19-2012 21:33:09 PDT Buy It Now for only: $53.90 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Original Oil of Desert by Well Listed Carmel California Artist Ellwood Graham $675.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 19:19:48 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 GUZMAN CALIFORNIA PLEIN AIR EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM ABSTRACT VENTURA SEASCAPE $49.88 (6 Bids) End Date: Monday May-28-2012 12:54:45 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 LISTED Vintage Abstract Portrait Art Paris Flower Girl Oil Painting Modernist $160.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 18:23:50 PDT Buy It Now for only: $320.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ABSTRACT MODERNIST PAINTING SIGNED MID CENTURY ART DECO EAMES ART CUBIST MOD $195.00 End Date: Wednesday Jun-13-2012 19:20:18 PDT Buy It Now for only: $195.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Josephine Mahaffey Abstract Expressionist Mother Child Blockprint $25.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 18:00:00 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 AWESOME ORIGINAL SIGNED SEYMOUR ZAYON FRAMED ABSTRACT MODERN ACRYLIC PAINTING $199.95 End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 20:46:56 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Vintage Abstract Moderist modern art Original painting Gallery piece Signed $19.99 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 11:52:50 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ABSTRACT ORIGINAL Painting Large 30x40 Modern Impasto Fine Art By Thomas John $199.70 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 20:49:24 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.70 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 VTG Modernist Kanti Campagna Abstract Mixed Media Painting Unique Composition $250.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 21:01:13 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 WILD FLOWERS Brazil Original MODERN ART ACRYLIC PAINTINGS SET Signed Novica $99.95 End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 17:49:13 PDT Buy It Now for only: $119.95 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 BRAZIL SAMBA Original Modern Art Acrylic Diptych PAINTING Vibrant Gorgeous $69.95 End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 21:00:08 PDT Buy It Now for only: $84.95 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 MARIO de FERRANTE California Modernist Futurist Original Abstract Oil $699.00 End Date: Monday Jun-11-2012 10:50:43 PDT Buy It Now for only: $699.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 INK AND WATERCOLOR ABSTACT DRAWING PAINTING SIGNED JOAN MIRO WONDERFUL COLORS $85.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 7:44:38 PDT Buy It Now for only: $125.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 INK AND WATERCOLOR ABSTACT DRAWING PAINTING SIGNED JOAN MIRO WONDERFUL COLORS $89.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 7:46:29 PDT Buy It Now for only: $125.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 ABSTRACT ORIGINAL OIL $110.00 End Date: Tuesday May-22-2012 10:29:50 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 1940s 50s OriG Pair Joseph Meierhans Oil + Gouache Paintings New Hope MODERNIST $950.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 14:40:54 PDT Buy It Now for only: $950.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Pair of Framed Original Modernist Abstract Composition Paintings on Canvas $250.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 16:50:58 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 VINTAGE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM PAINTING NONOBJECTIVE MODERNISM SIGNED $12.34 End Date: Monday May-28-2012 17:39:01 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Coreen Spellman Expansion and Contraction 2 c1950 Early Modernist Watercolor $295.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 17:51:21 PDT Buy It Now for only: $529.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
More Great Information on Abstract Modernist:
Postmodern gem, reconsidered: Graves' Humana Building, which once drew mixed reviews, now a fixture on Louisville skyline (chicagotribune)
LOUISVILLE, Ky**. —** Much has happened to the art of skyscraper design in the
30 years since architect Michael Graves won the design competition that led to
the construction of the quintessentially postmodern Humana Building here, not
the least of which is that postmodernism itself fell into disrepute.
Critics savaged the style, which reacted against the austerity of modernist
steel and glass boxes, for producing a pastiche of historical references — a
column tacked on here, a pediment there. Architects like Frank Gehry have
since moved in a new direction, using the computer to conjure sleek sculptural
forms that would have been unthinkable three decades ago.
But postmodernism deserves a more sophisticated reappraisal, one that
carefully separates its masterpieces from its mediocrities and clarifies its
contributions to the long-term arc of design. That's the conclusion I reached
after a recent tour of the Humana Building. While the building has undeniable
flaws, they are easily outweighed by its attributes, which have only grown
stronger with time.
To put this 27-story office headquarters — originally built for $60 million —
into perspective, it is helpful to recall the state of architecture in the
early 1980s, when postmodernism was at ...
What is Abstract Modernist Art?
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Here are 2 sites to give you much info on "what" and "who"...it's extensive. They are related closely. Grab a cup of coffee and have a good read. If you read these yourself, the info will stick with you better than if others feed it to you. Abstract: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art - 'Abstract Art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.'
Modernist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_art - 'Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art.'
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