Abstract art

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Abstract art is art that does not  depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses colour and form in a  non-representational way.^[1] In the very early 20th century, the term was  more often used to describe art, such as Cubist and Futurist art, that depicts real forms in a  simplified or rather reduced way—keeping only an allusion to the original  natural subject. Such paintings were often claimed to capture something of the  depicted objects' immutable intrinsic qualities rather than its external appearance. (See abstraction.) The more precise  terms, "non-figurative art," "non-objective art," and "non-representational art"  avoid any possible ambiguity.