Concrete art

The concrete Art is a artistic Mouvement related with the movement of the Geometric abstraction.

The concept of concrete art was advanced by Theo van Doesburg, founder and writer of the review De Stijl.

The Dutch artist explained: “Concrete and nonabstract Painting, because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, than a color, than a surface”. One knows the continuation, jusqu `with the will of Kandinsky to substitute this term for that of Abstraction and to recognize a concept “with a future there”.

Proclamation of Concrete Art

concrete art is not a dogma, not a " isme" , it is the expression of a intellectual thought. He knows a plurality of languages.
concrete art is determined by the result, the visualization of a thought and not of a method.
concrete art is the reflection of the human spirit for the human spirit.
concrete art is opposed to sentimental, is opposed to mysticism.
concrete art is not an interpretation, an illustration, a symbol. It is reality.
concrete art is not a transposition of nature.
It is not an abstraction.
concrete art is not narrative, literary. It is close to the music.
concrete art takes form with the assistance of the color, space, the light, the movement. Thus it is concretized.
concrete art does not testify to the private one. It confirms the universal one.
concrete art is related to architecture, with the draftsmanship.
concrete art includes the artificial world. it does not differentiate Art from the applied art. The difference is in the function.
concrete art wants to mobilize our esthetic direction, our creativity, our social conscience.
concrete art wants to clarify, to take part in the harmonization of our artificial world.

External bonds

Site of the space of Concrete Art/Donation Albers-Honegger

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