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Originally Posted by Odyshape
What qualifies something as abstract. I hear this word used all the time but I really don't have much of a clue as to what it means.
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In the most general sense, it means art which is non-representational. It doesn't depict actual scenes or subjects but instead is pure expression through color, shape, texture, etc. Jackson Pollack is an example of a well known abstract artist:
Mark Rothko is another: