Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color, and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Abstract art, non-figurativ
Robert Delaunay, 1912–13, Le Premier Disque, 134 cm (52.7 in.), private collection
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1874), Detroit Institute of Arts
Francis Picabia, c. 1909, Caoutchouc, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
František Kupka, Amorpha, Fugue en deux couleurs (Fugue in Two Colors), 1912, oil on canvas, 210 × 200 cm, Narodni Galerie, Prague. Published in Au Salon d'Automne "Les Indépendants" 1912, Exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne, Paris.
Monochromatic painting has played an extreme role in modern and contemporary Western visual art, originating with the early 20th-century European avant-gardes. Artists have explored the non-representa
Paul Bilhaud, Combat de nègres pendant la nuit, 1882
Brice Marden, The Dylan Painting, 1966/1986, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Allan McCollum, Collection of One Hundred Plaster Surrogates, 1982/1990, Enamel on cast Hydrostone. Collection: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, Belgium
Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962.