Abstract Paintings and Musings on Art
I love this little painting! I love the chattering teeth character; sometimes I feel like this painting looks. I’m happy with the looseness I managed in this painting, as well as being able to describe so many of the color-shapes with single brushstrokes. More tomorrow!
This is cool. See more of Leafy Tenement’s great photos from Houston.
“Between technique, vision, design, expression there is no seam; neither is one thing the cause and another the result.”
“Painterly…the subordination of individual objects to the sense of the circumambient medium, or the rendering of optical values as distinct from tactile, or as giving weight through color rather than through modeling, or as a distinction of focus through variations of brushstroke, etc.”
“Each painter’s idiosyncratic painting style is the…realization of several successive kinds of reading into the way paint symbolizes air, matter, space, light, flesh.”
“…sustaining of penetration so that the artist continually moves past a simply available solution to one which has greater depth.”
“What we take to be the same color when it has a vague edge is perceived completely differently from when it has a defined edge.”
“color modified by reflected light”
“color modification by simultaneous contrast”
“the amount of visual information which is capable of being transmitted by optical arrangements is in excess of what we require.”
“Rembrandt’s reduction creates and fortifies expression. This is because it acts out the way in which we find meaning in our living experiences.”
“Every choice, every action which decides something about each event must be taken with a view to the longest structure in time and sound which will give to the separate elements the most articulate meaning.”
Strive for awareness of movement from:
Mark Tobey drawing diagram of a fly flying around the studio – what’s behind you is as important as the rest. Fly’s eye view.
1. Cezanne drew from inside out
2. Yin/yang – figure/ground.
3. Color – reacts against what’s behind it.
Go back to the back wall – pull planes forward towards you.
View a gallery of drawings made in this way from this class.
More artists to look at:
Figuration and abstraction.
How ideas are developed.
Comes from nature.
Look at source periodically.
Can you not go back and be very particular after moving fast, getting abstract?
Look at:
Diebenkorn (Diebenkorn’s missing works) – colors on cigar box top – beautiful: Yellow, lavendar, green, pink, peach, white – very pale with strip of red, brown. Archeological presence of landscape – strata, layers.
Giorgio Morandi – simplicity of shapes. The less there is to look at, the more you look at it (a specific edge). Drawing aspect vs. painting aspect – how to find out from different material.
Make a list of verbs and adjectives about your own work.
When struggling with a work, isolate parts of it and do lots of sketches to come up with a better composition.