In other words, art no longer had to refer to something in the everyday world. Artists like Paul Klee developed his own vocabulary of form, symbol and color as well as new techniques to express his inner vision. Picasso is probably the innovator who did the most to popularize and give legitimacy to abstract art. How to create an abstract painting. Firstly, as has been stated, abstract art is not merely messing with paint.
Abstract art requires great formal discipline.
The following exercise in abstract art should make this clear. Begin your first abstract work of art by painting or drawing something from real life. Consider this a form of sketching or preparation for the abstract painting. Begin, for example, with something very ordinary, like a bowl of fruit, a flower, or a portrait. For purposes of this demonstration we will take a picture of a cat.