Religious Abstract Movement

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Art movements throughout time have evolved according to the time, place and context in which each movement was introduced. The Religious Abstract movement is from the Classical Religious art to the symbolic, figurative Religious Abstract art. Religious Abstract artworks are created through the artist representation of a religious text or of a complex spiritual idea creating an evolving sub art movement. This is displayed throughout history from the first abstract religious painting by Hilma Kint to the use of traditional Japanese Medias by Makoto Fujimura to the unrecognisable representation of bible scriptures and human souls by Michel Keck.

Hilma Kint was a Swedish painter born in 1862 who based her abstract artworks on mending the connection between God and humans. Kint first started painting these artworks in 1907 with oil paints on tempera; this was three years before Wassily Kandinsky painted the ‘first abstract painting.’

Kint’s first painting was called They Tens Mainstay lV. This painting uses flat, two-dimensional free form, organic shapes painted in duller, greyer colours to represent the humans who had turned away from the path of light and peace; this is shown in the image to the ____. The path was represented with thin, curved, white painted lines
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This leaves quite a big gap until around 1960 when Makoto Fujimura was born. Now Makoto Fujimura is 57 years old and a religious abstract painter. He uses historical concepts, mineral pigments, and his faith to revamp the interpretation of King James Version of the Bible scriptures in modern abstract form. Golden Sea is an abstract mixed media artwork that Makoto Fujimura painted in commemoration of the 400 year anniversary of King James Version of the

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