I want to make this thread especially for posting your favorite works of art that don't fall under the realism umbrella. Anything and everything you can thing of, except the art movements that are related to realism.
No more than one painting per person per day. Please specify the artist and the title of the work.
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Kandinsky's audience was quite shocked by the transition from the apocalyptic emotion of his previous Composition to the geometric rhythm of Composition VIII. “Composition VIII” reflects, to a certain extent, the influence of Suprematism and Constructivism assimilated by Kandinsky in Russia and in the Bauhaus.
@dencal , now it's your turn.
I'm going to post two paintings to illustrate the range from semi-abstract to complete abstraction.
An example of a painting I love and which may, or may not be regarded as realism, is Picasso's Guernica. It is huge and a powerful image on many levels. We see objects in it we may recognize but they are highly abstracted.
Guernica
Another painting I really like, and which is about as abstract as you could get, is this one by Rothko:
No.2 - Red, Green and Blue
I can lose myself in those colour fields. To me it is beautiful. I imagine some will see a landscape in this, although I doubt that was Rothko's intention.
I'd be interested to see what abstract works others post.
A Moment of Calm (nga.gov)
The online image does not do this justice. Viewed in person, it shows a variety of subtle patterns that coalesce into objects that appear and then change into something else. The surface, for an oil painting, is complex, with varying depths, and edges which catch and reflect the light. If you look at it for more than a minute, it changes in front of your eyes! Many moving creatures showing different emotions in the image and reacting to each other. Careful modeling of close values. It is pretty big at about 5x10 feet.
A masterpiece.
Violating Lucian's rules: the Alexander Calder room in the same NGA: an entire room filled with moving mobiles and stable stabiles. In shifting light over the day from the windows. Some parts of the mobiles are made of translucent colored material, so the light shines not just on them but through them. One may lie on the floor and look up at the constantly changing patterns. It is like floating in a coral reef on an alien planet.