Abstrahism
Abstrahism is a movement in European contemporary art created by German painter Albrecht Behmel around 2010. Also known as The Magic of the Swarms.
Style[edit]
Intricate chaotic systems consist of simple overlapping elements. The colours help define the shape, but at the same time emphasise the intricacies of the interaction of each silhouette. It is about the fusion of shapes into more complex forms and about the interaction of colours.
Heritage[edit]
When geographer Francis Guthrie made a map of the English counties in 1852, he conjectured that any map could be made with only four different colours. It took mathematicians more than a century to prove that he was right. Abstrahism transports these findings into the realm of contemporary art. Abstrahism is also influenced by ecclesiastical lead lights and Buddhist mandalas and Piet Mondrian.
Technique[edit]
Works start as an outline in pencil on canvas or wood. The resulting network of overlapping silhouettes gets coloured according to a fundamental pattern of colors that mirror the overall design, as in chaos theory or Mandelbaum shapes.
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