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The Abstract Language
Often, an artist that insists on working in a non-representational manner, experiences life "abstractly." In other words, there is a core necessity to express what we see, feel, hear, etc., through the symbols that best represent our relationship with the world around us. We take in data and reconfigure it through an internal language that only others who understand this language, so to speak, can interpret. It is an intuitive sensing of life, and an outward attempt to express that internal knowing through an invented language of our own devise.
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Permalink Reply by Asandra on -
Yes, we can create out the cosmos, the infinite pallatte, whatever we imagine . . .
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Permalink Reply by Gordon Fraser on -
abstract painting can be split into two camps. The first is the theory painters, which would include artists like Albers or the Op-Art artists, who are dealing with questions of color theory, optics etc. This camp is not concerned with the personal or subjective and in fact tries to remove the personality of the artist from the work as much as possible. The other camp includes the whole range of painters including abstract expressionists, lyrical abstractionists, etc. whose works are often deeply personal and subjective.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon Fraser on
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I think the problem here is with the art therapists. Since the sixties there has been this idea of the healing power of art and many people who have no art training have been directed to painting as a method of psychological and emotional healing past traumas. Obviously these people have been deeply wounded and are deeply angry. The surge in popularity of this form of treatment over the last 40 years has lead to an overabundance of "angry expressionistic" abstract art. Many people who come to paint at the Art Students League in New York City have been encouraged by their therapists and for them it is difficult to move beyond their trauma.
My experience has been that many artists moved away from abstract painting as a way of distinguishing themselves from the mass of people engaged in art therapy. Furthermore, many of art therapy people came to painting without any prior art or art history background and were uninterested and incapable of a serious and sustained discussion of painting. The tend to me more focused on themselves. As a result, the abstract painting studios lost their intellectual and creative rigor as the serious students moved to other studios where there was a more engaging and vital exchange taking place.
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Permalink Reply by Adalbert on -
Maximun Challenge.
Selldom turns limits and boundaries of language more obvious (manifest) then when one tries to describe nonfiguration.
Pure, abstract art without evident substance, yes, nearly lacking of room in usal sense. Cultivated forms and shapes is reduced, transformed in a just as distinctiv as the human language eluding away.
I think , in a formal way or as a locomotiv power, a seaching, trying way the testing is more important than the final result.
To turn things out in thoughts, motion and gestures, more challenging, in good and bad, is selldom abstract art.
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Permalink Reply by ted stanuga on -
Yes and even in the physical world, after a lifetime of painting abstractly, I have a very difficult time driving at night because the windshield becomes a two dimensional plane without perspective, and watching TV is more of the same. Everything on a tv is a planview (like a bird looking down) so a half back running away is running up the screen, or toward you down the screen. I love this.
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Permalink Reply by ted stanuga on
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Guilio, I so agree with your take on this. There is the Didactic paradigm implicit in realism that does not exist in Abstraction which tends toward the Mimetic. This does not have to be a qualitative statement but rather observational, although with me it tends to be qualitative as well.
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Permalink Reply by Asandra on
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The conversation is becoming too abstract even for yours truly! How about some discussion about exhibiting or the art market?
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Permalink Reply by Adalbert on
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This is a beautiful work you show fore us here!
If theres interesst to exhibit together as a group somewere sometime tell me under the dicussion "Were to go from here"
Beautiful picture, Asandra!
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Permalink Reply by Asandra on
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Thank you for the compliment.
Regarding an exhibit; how do we bridge the geographical gap? We could do an exhibit electronically. A virtual exhibit, I suppose. One that members of the abstract circle could promote to all of our individual contacts. And maybe update at regular intervals, such as quarterly (every season). We would need someone to volunteer some computer expertise as well as a place to host the exhibit. There could be a mission statement that you as the founder of abstract circle could write. Something that suggests our mutual devotion to abstraction.
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Permalink Reply by Adalbert on
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I will repley on this at the forumdiscussion "Where to go from here"
"Abstract Language" fills fore me personally an wery fine place to experiment with words and thoughts. I hope you feel thesame even if its get sa little bit wild at times.
And why dont we all contribute a little at "manifesto" just fore fun?
/Adalbert
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Permalink Reply by Jose Lallana on -
Now at this moment i can say that i belive so much in the power of the abstract!
the abstract not only express human feelings, express a non scientific demostration in wich the one who is painting an abstract expression is just linked with another reality that believe or not exist in this wiked apace time reality we live, science fiction is telling us a reality more or less like our, abstract express a reality much more far away, that exist far away or just here, and anything u can imagine is a gift and even more if u can express to others. my question is how this can happen? perhaps is the power of life!
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Permalink Reply by Sorg on -
I think if it's visual it's abstract necessarily, receptive people to the ocular sense of interpreting and connecting with the world are only a percentage of the population. We all relate to our surroundings in different ways of course, some people are very literal or aligorical or who-knows-what-ical.
I like the vision, i like the change, I like the simplified, organic organize. I don't even codify.
