Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Objective abstraction sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Objective abstraction (1933 – 1936), it traces one movement that shaped it, a well-established link: Abstract art.
Objective abstraction was a British art group or movement c. 1933–1936, taking its name from the "Objective Abstractions" exhibition of 1934. It is a misnomer in the sense that a minority of the artists in the exhibition were at that time engaged in abstract painting. The grouping was short-lived, lasting only a few years, with a number of the artists involved later taking part in the Euston Road School of realism.
Objective abstraction was a form of abstract art developed by a group of British artists in 1933. Experimentation was prevalent in British art at the time. Read more ↗