《辞海》中对“抽象”的释义有两层:一、同具体相对,指事物某一方面的本质规定在思维中的反映;二、指思维活动的一种特性,即在思想中抽取事物的本质属性,撇开非本质属性。可以认为,抽象总是同具体相对应,它表现对象的本质意义、普遍性,而非个别事物的表层意义。在视觉艺术中,“抽象”又是如何呈现的呢?抽象艺术诞生于20世纪初的西方社会,成为西方艺术流派的主导,其中各家各派关于“抽象”的理论侧重点各有所不同,代表性的有沃林格、阿恩海姆、苏珊·朗格、康定斯基、蒙德里安、克利、哈罗德·奥斯本等。沃林格从心理学角度出发,认为抽象是对空间、具象的抑制,以结晶质的几何线形 The definition of “abstract” in Cihai consists of two layers: one is the same as the concrete one, and the other is the reflection of the essential provisions of one aspect in thinking; the other one is the characteristic of the thinking activity Extract the essential nature of things, aside from non-essential attributes. It can be argued that abstraction always corresponds to concreteness, which shows the essential meaning and universality of the object rather than the superficial meaning of individual things. Abstract art was born in western society at the beginning of the 20th century and became the dominant school of western art, in which the theories of each school about “abstraction ” are focused on Each is different, the representative of Warring Ge, Arnheim, Susan Lange, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Kerry, Harold Osborne and so on. Verlinger from a psychological point of view, that the abstract is the space, the suppression of concrete, with crystalline geometric line