Abstract Art Modern Painting Techniques by Peter Dranitsin. For me, a big realization came when I saw that every image was the result of editing. A landscape or portrait or madonna and child all edited out from a larger picture or arena. A close look at a Franz Kline painting is a revelation of skill and this idea of editing and adjusting. The reason Im fascinated by this is that it seems to drive us to getting an essence into the material image that has no substance. Its like trying to capture the immense forces that created the hills in a landscape by rendering the hills as result of those forces instead of getting the contours visually right. Like. Follow Joel. Joel Kahn Check the links on my profile to see examples of my algorithmic math based output. How do you think my work fits with these ideas about abstractionLike. Follow Peggy. Peggy Kerwan Thanks for all of this input. As a fairly new artist 6 years who loves color, movement, texture, I paint mainly whimsical interpretations all subjects and mediums. I share my art and others art with many non artist friends, several of whom struggle to get it when it comes to abstraction. I must say Im not great at explaining it. Your comments have made me feel better able to do so. I especially like your comment, Hufreesh, and cant wait to share the slap with my buddies. In these tutorials I will be posting a series of videos on my YouTube channel that you can follow along at home. Its free to subscribe to the website so you can. Sign up for our Newsletter and get FREE tips on how to look and feel amazing here. Like. Follow Catherine CathyCatherine Cathy Shapiro im a wordsmith too, so I love Stephens commentary. Abstraction is like love. Art itself is akin to the act of catching lightning in a bottle You cant do that no matter how hard you try. Like. 1Follow Chris. Buy Renaissance Hq, Dvd, Divx, Ipod,. Chris Myers I could not find a way to edit a previous post with a URL that I will stop using, so that post is now gone. I am switching over to http cribet. I did not delete the post because this was not an interesting discussion I find it very hard to classify a lot of my work and end up calling it abstract, but I do not really know if this is accurate or not. The question of what is abstract and what is not is always on my mind. I guess I can define a couple things that help me decide if I should tag an image abstract. These are hardly definitions for abstract across all media, but they help. For my own works if their content is no longer clearly derived from the actual physical subject of the photograph and becomes more an expression of form or a fundamental geometric shape, then I call them abstract. I am less certain if there are those same forms and geometric shapes in the art, but the content is clear. My gut says that if mentally my imagination gets stirred up and I see other worlds and stories in images, then they are abstract. I do see the same sometimes in the oak tree portraits or fungi work that I do as well, but that is on a different level. Like. Follow Jill. Jill Campbell For me it is always important to try to keep some sort of connection or truth to the original subject so it is often about trying to find some kind of balance between representation and abstraction. My aim is to develop a pictorial language which will enable me to make visible my own experience of being in the world in a way that has a universal sense and so can be communicated to others. Removing any obvious references to observed subject matter mean the paintings do not operate as windows. They become painted surfaces built with marks and colour that represent my personal expression of the relationship between self and the world. Like. 1Follow Stephanie. Stephanie Smith Its great to see all of these comments I recently participated in an abstract exhibit, where the curators asked us all to write a description of whywhathow we perceive abstract art Ill start with my own writing, and if theres some interest, Ill keep adding other writings from the other artists. Just like this discussion, they ideas that have been flowing down from this one exhibit are eloquent and thought provoking. The artists of the Renaissance did not invent human anatomy, but made strides to understand it by looking to and reflecting on information outside of what convention allowed. Similarly, abstract art is not a step out of reality, but rather a step into a greater reality. Creating and studying abstract works, is what examining a new species of exotic flower, excavating for ancient fossils, or mapping the inner apparatus of the human body is. Sometimes these acts are not so much beautiful as odd, or even gruesome our imagination never truly anticipating their fragile existence. Yet, when our eyes fall upon them, their untamed presence provides a mind altering experience. Observing their form, color, and behavior, augments our perspective of the natural world. Artists have long owned the resourcefulness to bring to forefront, forgotten, or veiled certainties by providing intimate reports on compelling, but pre existing realities. Like. 2Follow Jeffery. Jeffery Rowe I believe art and the process of making art are the cultural DNA that makes us who and what we are, as individuals, a community and a society. While there are many endeavors that are rooted in creativity, to be considered art I feel the work has to speak to the audience in an intimate and primal way, if not it becomes just decorative. I am interested in exploring the notion of chaos and order and their relationship. That is why I introduce pseudo geometric forms and lines in my work. My primary goal is to get the audience to think, and consider something they may not have considered. I occasionally try to provoke the thinkingquestioning process with titles that may not be obvious choices. I also use hints of representational and symbolic elements in primarily non representational pieces in an effort to challenge notions of reality. I tend to think that we compartmentalize our worlds into easily digestible boxes and by doing so edit out essential elements of the things we are boxing up. Once this is done we tend to believe these are absolute truths without further consideration. I hope to stimulate people into reconsidering these truths. The world was flat and then it was round and now it is flat again. Art is a gift that allows us to accept these inconsistencies because our human realities are primarily a function of our perspective. Art aids and alters that perspective. I do not possess the arrogance to think I can necessarily alter that reality but, I may be able to influence the perspectives. Like. Follow Stephanie. Stephanie Smith A quote from a fellow artist Alexis Mclean www. From Abstract Views Artists Statements 2. I consider all creation to bea na abstraction. I strive to let intuition and emotion flow into form when I paint. Defined images may appear although the whole comes from subconscious layers and raw emotion. The moment weh our inner cauldrons boil over and we leap into the void is already unique. We all relate to the sensations of being human, raw passion, loss gain, hoy. This provokes me. Like. 1Follow Tony. Tony Reynolds At one point in my scattered art education I heard or read that abstract art, perhaps it was more modern painting, was an attempt to create a new thing, a real object, not seen before. The painting was not to be understood as a window representing anything else reality, emotion, etc but rather that it was a thing of its own identity. Does this ring true Like. Follow Conn. Conn Ryder Eegads To whom is it necessary that we provide this one all encompassing definition of abstract art What an ominous task. Im aware of, anyway. It seems to me that the term abstract iswas to art, what alternative iswas to music although even more wide ranging.