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Abstract

This text is a profound and conceptual reflection on abstract painting, focusing specifically on Abstract Expressionism as a means of individual and emotional expression. Drawing on research ranging from cave art to contemporary art, it highlights how abstraction has been a constant throughout the history of art, branching out into multiple, never-ending forms. It argues that abstraction implies a renunciation of figuration, stripping the work of all recognizable referents, allowing the artist to express their inner world freely and intuitively. The duality between geometric abstraction (order, structure) and expressive abstraction (gesture, emotion) is discussed, emphasizing that art does not seek to represent reality, but rather to reconstruct it from the artist's feelings. Painting is presented as an intimate, gestural, and cathartic act, in which color, form, and stroke become vehicles of inner turmoil. This shock is not only personal but also collective: it is associated with the artist's social, political, and emotional context, especially in the face of contemporary violence and conflict. A historical overview is provided of the movements that influenced abstraction (Baroque, Romanticism, Neoplasticism), and key artists of Abstract Expressionism are mentioned, such as Clifford Still, Franz Kline, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, among others. Each is briefly analyzed for their stylistic and conceptual contributions. Finally, the pictorial proposal materializes in a series of nine abstract paintings that, through gesture, color, and composition, seek to envelop the viewer in a "tricolor flag" (yellow, blue, and red), as a symbol of identity, shock, and existential conflict.