In the early 20th century, the most advanced painters turned their backs on representative depictions of the world and began to look for ways outside the mode of art design which seeks to faithfully and directly capture the phenomenal world in distinctive shapes and forms. Abstract art has arisen and evolved in various historical periods, but never to such extreme levels as those conveyed by some modernist artists. The abstraction of organic forms into pure forms has transformed the object world into spiritual art (as a symbolic object without meaning). These artists sought to combine the positive and the negative - both present and absent; therefore, some images are more elementary and others are more intricate (representing more complex relationships between shapes and colors). However, the line between simple and complex and recognition can be very thin. Finding a balance between realism and abstraction creates new avenues of creation.
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