Abstract art.

There ain't many areas of public policy that produce more 'heat than light' than contemporary art and in particular that so called illegitimate bastard Abstract Art. So last night we had two programmes devoted to that branch of art on BBC Four. We had an hors d' oeuvres to wet the appetite. Matthew Collings in Rules of Abstraction give us a very informative and educational show. If we go back to its very beginnings at the end of the 1890's and the birth of the movement it was theosophical theories at the time underpinned its belief - that we are motived by spirits and things unseen. So the thoughts and projection were contained within these 'abstraction'. An artist that revolutionized out view of art was the Russian Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) his exhibition in Russia in 1915 of a picture that was totally black with a white frame, upturn all previous conceptualizations of what is art? He has greatly influenced the work of the British architect Dame Zaha Hadid.
In addition artists like Kandinsky have also developed sparse geometric shapes in bright colours to depict his abstraction? The question what is Abstract Art has bedeviled it for many years. Over time we have however become more familiar with its limited line and form that can be the representation of an emotion as in the pioneering work of Howard Hodskin in my opinion a great artists. Britain has produced some of the most important abstract conveyors of that art movement including such as people as sculptures/artists Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson Victor Pasmore, Sir Anthony Caro, John Hoyland, Bridget Riley and more recently Damien Hirst Taken together this is as good a collection of artists as any other country has produced including America. They had the towering power and energy of  Jackson Pollock and the tragic but brilliant life of Mark Rothko. This can bee sen in Abstract Artists in Their Own Words.