Shade and Shapes Come Along with No Hesitation. Van Doesburg subsequently adopted the view that the non secular in man is nurtured particularly by summary art, which he later described as ‘pure thought, which does not signify a concept derived from natural phenomena but which is contained in numbers, measures, relationships, and abstract lines’.

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His work show closely misty mountains through which the shapes of the objects are barely visible and very simplified. Born on December 24, 1978, Bernard Mensah started education at the age of six. Excellent ideas and liked the video, by the time I get to the top I can barely remember the beginning.

Love your use of assorted mediums… Beautiful work, thanks for sharing! Summary art uses a visual language of shape, type, shade and line to create a composition which may exist with a level of independence from visible references on the earth. The work is a portrait of his wife with inexperienced and yellow skin on a multicolored background.

Abstraction in art may be anything you want it to be. It can’t solely be an interpretation of what you see or what you feel, but in addition what you hear. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. Placement and First Prize in Effective Artwork Class, 1986.