Abstraction
Artistic movement and method of rejecting realism
Abstraction is a style and method in art where the artist deliberately refuses to depict objects and phenomena as they appear in reality. It is not only about paintings without recognizable objects: abstraction expresses feelings and ideas through color, form, line, and even empty spaces. At the beginning of the 20th century, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich shocked the public by creating canvases where the main thing is the interaction of spots and lines, not the plot.
Interestingly, such works sometimes shocked the public, causing disputes: did children draw this or great masters?
In art, abstraction is the freedom to be unlike others, experiments with perception and the ability to speak the language of emotions and associations rather than literal images.