Art, indeed, began with abstraction. Sigfried Giedion More Quotes by Sigfried Giedion More Quotes From Sigfried Giedion Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted. Sigfried Giedion representation artist reality Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory. Sigfried Giedion views reality art Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials. Sigfried Giedion essentials mind play The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon. Sigfried Giedion spoons coffee sun Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine. Sigfried Giedion hog submit machines
