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Formal abstraction
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The same way between the thematic abstraction and formal abstraction there's a loss of sense, while in the first the theme is lost but motives remain understandable, in the second motives are lost for colorful tasks and pure forms. Thus movements like symbolism and surrealism are part of thematic abstraction, while Malevich's Suprematism (with his interest in pure form), Kandinsky's informalism, or Jackson Pollock's abstract expressionism are part of formal abstraction. In his book Questions on General Aesthetics (2010), Barbe says that if Turner is a clear antecedent of formal abstraction, this one is historically and ideologically posterior to the thematic abstraction. The vanguards themselves have first decomposed the forms, as in cubism, and then have attacked directly the representation itself. Although the impressionism and attempts to Moholy-Nagy and photography about the light, which have been parallel to the decomposition and reduction of pictorial imitation in simple geometric forms by cubism or constructivism, are first manifestation of the later formal abstraction which appeared during the postwar years, in movements like abstract expressionism of the 40's or in the work of Yves Klein during the 60's. See Also
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