The general sense, abstract art is the art of modern Western art in a specific trend of thought and the concept of school (we can see that the concept is not covered by the traditional art with "abstract factors" and "abstract way" and "abstract style" art). In actual use, the meaning of abstract art than the broad, and the arts as a relative, referring to estimates of Modern Art in the West with a variety of abstract art characteristics of the phenomenon. The abstract and abstract the meaning of a narrower, and its specific trend of thought in the abstract genre.
Overall, the 20th century, modern abstract oil painting is a simulation of natural Western art tradition of rebellion. It opposed to objectively describe natural objects, abstract ideas and analysis of abstract expressionism. Broad, abstract modern art contains two major types: The first is from a natural point of abstract objects, and form a natural object of maintaining a certain image associated abstract art; The second type is not a natural object on the basis of abstract, creative Constitutes a pure form. In the narrow sense of abstract art, that is, the trend of thought in the abstract genre and are reflected in the second category. It depicts the negative specific object or natural object-based, only the basic language of abstract painting and creative elements in the form of pure abstract art to express some kind of emotional, mental, and other ideas or aesthetic experience.