Daily Abstract
Visual Arts
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Contemporary by Angela Li presents group exhibition Daily Abstract, investigating the exploration of abstract art by 10 new generation Hong Kong artists using various styles and medium, while studying the meaning of abstract art and its contemporary context.
Abstraction is not only an artistic style, but can also be a daily behaviour. Abstract art can be described as a process of elimination of the figurative. From the earlier methods of reducing and simplifying landscapes and objects, to the use of simple points, lines, planes and colour blocks to get geometric abstraction, to using vigorous brushstrokes to achieve abstract expressionism with intense emotions, abstract art has evolved continuously over time and developed into different movements. In contemporary art, abstraction may be closer to the original concept of philosophy, which is the process of extracting then further generalizing an idea. The creation of contemporary art is often an extraction, refinement and re-creation of a concept. This process is integrated into our daily life as part of our cognitive process, hence abstraction could be said as a daily behaviour. The exhibition Daily Abstract hopes to reduce the distance between art and our daily lives by reintegrating them together.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2018" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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