What is the most correct direction for understanding abstraction in art?

Treating it as expression of feeling or idea through form, colour, and rhythm

The governing concept is that abstraction changes or reduces recognisable appearance in order to emphasise relationships, sensations, ideas, or emotions. An abstract work may use line, colour, shape, scale, space, rhythm, and texture without depicting an object realistically. This does not make it careless or meaningless; viewers can examine how its formal choices create tension, calm, movement, balance, or symbolic association. Option D is correct because it recognises expression through visual elements even when direct representation is absent. Option A mistakes non-realism for poor skill, B ignores deliberate organisation, and C incorrectly assumes that abstraction has no connection with lived reality or thought.

This is a Class 9 Art Education question. Chapter: Introduction to Art. Topic: Meaning of art.