Structure and Chaos as Non-objective Realism in Painting:
The Avant-Garde inventions of Modernism took objects and spaces from our life-world and applied new and different theoretical purposes, formation techniques, and media-manipulations to them. These Avant-Garde inventions were all about “visible form,” the very antithesis of Kandinsky’s Theory of Abstraction which focused on the “invisible, internal Content of the artist’s self.”
Background:
Image-making and Picture-making:
Human beings have been creating images on different surfaces for millennia. Called Image-making, this has been one of our most important human advancements, with a variety of applications, many of which are still used today. Other relevant factors that advanced this human capability included our increased ability to problem solve, improved skills of observation, and a more creative imagination.
Image-making became Picture-making by including a limited space on the surface where the images are placed. This surface space, called a picture-plane, is where the images are placed. This surface space, called a picture plane, is where the images, sometimes including their surroundings, are organized into a pictorial composition or picture.
Even so, Image-making and Picture-making provide more than just visual descriptions. They also develop our abilities tothink visually, expressions ourselves visually, and communicate with each other via visual means.