How can expression remain possible in abstract art even when object identity is reduced?

Color, shape, rhythm, and composition create feeling

The governing concept is abstraction: an artwork may reduce recognizable objects while still communicating through formal visual elements. Hue, value, line, shape, texture, scale, rhythm, balance, and the arrangement of forms can create calm, energy, conflict, movement, or tension. The viewer does not need to identify a person or object before responding to these qualities. Option A is correct because colour, shape, rhythm, and composition can carry expressive meaning independently of realistic representation. B and C are incorrect because abstraction can have meaning without literal depiction. D is also wrong because abstract art may use order or structure, but it is not merely mathematical calculation.

This is a Class 9 Art Education question. Chapter: Introduction to Art. Topic: Art as a form of expression.