Abstract art is a branch of art emerged in the West in the 1910s that broke from the tradition that a painting had to represent something. Before that, realist and impressionist artists painted objects and landscape exactly as how they saw them. In abstract art, artists present their subjective experience and imagination of the objects and scenery they painted. Relative image of the scenery or object no longer exists. Viewers have to use their imagination and senses to explore and interprete the works or art.Most abstract paintings represent things that are not visual. Points, lines, surfaces, forms, colour and texture become the elements that convey the artists’ emotion and spiritual experiences. To understand abstract art, you need to have keen senses and open imagination. Allowing your senses to be linked up with your sight and wandering around the painting and see where it takes you. Abstract art should be admired in the same way as that of listening to music. Let the elements of the painting flow through your senses the way the notes of music wash over your soul. One of the beautiful things about abstract art is its opening to interpretation. Abstract art gives you freedom to explore the artwork and assign your own meaning to the piece. This personalised process enriches a viewer’s experience of an artwork.

Some people may think that abstract art is easy. However, painting or creating abstract arts is not as simple as they look. It demands great drawing skill and a heightened sensitivity for composition and colours. For a piece of abstract art to have significance for anyone other than the artist, it needs to have something that can retain the viewer’s attention, draw them in, keep them looking, and generate an emotional response. Let’s admire abstract art with an open mind and an open heart – let imagination leads.

抽象畫是一九一O年代開始在西方興起的一種破舊立新的繪畫形式，寫實或印象畫家會將他們所感受到景或物的美態描繪出來，和觀眾分享他所見識到的景或物。但在抽象畫裡，畫家把他對景或物的主觀體驗與想象呈現出來讓觀者自己去感受，景或物的具體形象不復存在，讓欣賞者憑各自的想像力詮釋作品。
在大部份抽象畫裡都找不到可以辨識的元素；點、線、面、體、色彩及質感成了抽象畫表達藝術家感覺及觸角的主要元素。因此欣賞抽象藝術，觀眾必須靠自己敏銳的五官與想像來感受藝術家所表達的理念，用眼睛把其他感官連結起來，讓視覺、聽覺、觸覺聯合一起來感覺，你可以從畫感應到剛、柔、軟、硬及喜、怒、哀、樂。欣賞抽象畫，應如欣賞交響樂般，讓畫面構圖如音符般浸透你的心靈。抽象藝術其中一樣好處是任何人都可憑自我感受詮釋作品，每個人可自由探索藝術作品和決定自己的釋義。這強烈個人化的過程，豐富了觀眾對藝術品的體驗。

有人會認為抽象畫如小孩塗鴉，其實抽象畫並非如表面所見般容易。抽象畫家除了需要有精湛的繪畫技巧外，亦需要對構圖和色彩有高度的敏感性。一件抽象藝術品要引發人的共鳴，需要具有一個或多個有力的元素，吸引觀者的注意力，讓人仔細欣賞，尋找作品傳達的意義。讓我們敞開心靈及胸懷，釋放想像力欣賞抽象藝術品，領會藝術家境生象外的世界。