A historical overview of the understanding of art and the path to abstract painting

Abstract

This paper deals with the analysis of the historical work from the beginning of the ancient era, when painting was considered a craft, until today, where the artist has complete freedom of expression. It is about the time when painting was declared as a spiritual skill and through which stages painting and society itself went through. Many challenges were imposed on artists in order to survive in the coming periods, until they fully freed themselves and started making pure art from the depths of their souls. Pictures that are full of emotions and feelings can only create a pure spirit. Artists resisted the way they were accepted in society, with new rebellious ideas of the time. Starting with modernism and the emergence of abstract painting, and later abstract expressionism. The very position of the most influential artists of those periods in which they lived is analyzed in this paper. Through various applications of their most famous works, how their art contributed to the development of painting and how they inspired other artists to continue to always search for something new.