Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, colour and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

It has its roots in the 19^th century European society, when the patronage from the church diminished and private patronage from the public became more popular for providing a livelihood for artists.

The artists freely examined the mechanism of light and visual perception and experimented with them. Romanticism had put forward ideas about art that denied classicism emphasis on imitation and idealization and had indeed stressed the role of imagination.

In summary, artists began to imagine more wildly and expressed freely on canvas and in stone.

Three art movements which contributed to the development of abstract art were Romanticism, Impressionism and Expressionism. Artistic independence for artists was advanced during the 19th century. An objective interest in what is seen, can be discerned from the paintings of John Constable, J M W Turner, Camille Corot and from them to the Impressionists who continued the plein air painting of the Barbizon school.

Major movements of first two decades of 20^th century including Fauvism, Expressionism and Futurism in some way emphasized the group between art and natural appearances.

Through these movements, modern art emerged and colored the lives of the common and the elite.

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