

It also expands your imaginative abilities, because it forces you to think about your ideas in ways that dont mimic the objective world, and it requires you to see in unfamiliar ways. Of course abstraction presents a distinctly different way for artists to convey their ideas, but thats not all. More likely, however, they havent had much exposure to abstract art, and as a result they just dont know what to make of it.īut thats a shame, because those who shun abstract work are missing some of the most exciting and expressive artwork there is. But many artists and appreciators tend to keep their distance, perhaps because theyre intimidated by it or because they dont trust those snooty galleries.


Sure, it has a loyal (and growing) group of practitioners, and it makes up a large portion of whats hanging on the walls of fashionable New York art galleries. Abstraction isnt the most popular artistic mode around.
