abstract art
September 17th 2007 00:46
I lost respect for the system following that disastrous year (the last year of internal assessment at my high school). I ended up having to sit exams at the local university designed to fail you. I passed and gave the system the finger. But my passion for producing art had been irreparably damaged.
My father is an artist – a new renaissance man he was once described as by another artist friend - so I’ve always had art surrounding me during my childhood and adolescence. Both my younger brothers, and also my much younger half sister, have spent time making art, although these days the three brothers make original music as opposed to throwing paint against a canvas, and my sis is pursuing fashion design.
As much as I love realism, I really love abstract art. I love the idea that you can formulate your own ideas and concepts from some one else’s use of line and curve, colour and texture, light and darkness. I do love traditional landscape and portraiture, but there’s something intrinsically more interesting to me about art that can’t easily be defined.
The artist expresses themselves and the viewers interpret the expression. The more abstract and enigmatic the art, the more the viewer gets to interpret.
But enough of the art wank, here are some examples of abstract art that grabbed my eye, took my fancy, fuelled my thoughts.
I love all these examples of abstract art ... very hard to pick favourites, but if I had to point the oily finger I'd say; the Augustine, the Danckeart, the Ilachinski, the Stepanoff, and the Pollack. Appreciation of art is in the eye of the beholder. My style of eye couldn't be more subjective.
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