Abstract art does not try to represent reality as it is.
Rather, its goal is to achieve a sensory effect, to expand the mind, to shake the soul. So it is that it must breaks all rules of form, shape, and even color. Though we cannot precisely define it, we know that it works, even if we’re still not sure why, because it moves us in a very real way.
Abstraction allows one to see with the mind what cannot be seen with the eyes.
Like music abstract art conveys emotion, its notes are found in color and tone, shape and form. A cityscape may become a symphony in silver, a forest of birch a rhapsody in blue.
Abstract art deals with our perception of the world and our curiosity about the reach of our own imagination.
Though many claim that Abstraction is a recent trend, it can be truly said that it has been around for 20,000 years as the Lascaux Palaeolithic cave paintings demonstrate.