Geometrical Art Vs Vital Art: A Critique of the Modernist Abstract Art

Abstract

Experimentation with form, during the Modernist period, by disrupting the continuity between the subject and the object, the world and the canvas, by adopting unusual-and multiple points of view, by smuggling ugly and strange themes instead of standard and socially accepted material into the artistic world, and by abandoning all linear sequences in distorting accepted modes of communication exhibited a new kind of art in style, content, form, and medium. This kind of interrogation of the notions of artistic value called for a reconsideration and revaluation of th~ values previously accepted as standard by society.