I'm really bad at
abstract art. I mean, really bad. I'll show you the horrors that is my abstract are in an upcoming post. One time my mom asked for a piece of abstract art and I warned her that abstract isn't my thing, and she should be specific about what she wants. She refused and, well, she got what was coming to her. Even she couldn't convincingly say she liked it (I'll be sure and find a photo of it for your entertainment). Honesty runs in the family I guess. In college I learned how
Piet Mondrian came up his with abstract art- he started with a tree or a beach scene and then
progressed into increasingly abstract art until it became nothing but squares of color. The step where it is still almost recognizable but starts to become more a study on color, composition, and shape, as in Mondrian's
Grey Tree, is my favorite. That's usually what I try to create when I try to do abstract art and fail. I'm not a huge fan of abstract art in general, although once I sat in front of what I'm pretty sure was about a 6'x6'
Rothko (or something similar) of a gigantic indigo blue square and it was incredible. I can't explain why exactly, just the purity of such a beautiful color evoked emotion in me. Speaking of which, this post was supposed to be about color, not abstract art! Below is a little painting I did in about 10 minutes while chatting with friends.
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| Untitled. 4"x12", acrylics on canvas. |
Although I suppose this could be classified as abstract art I'm not counting this as abstract art because its doesn't fit the purist textbook definition of something that was
abstracted from actual imagery. Maybe it doesn't have to be. I'm really not sure.
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| Detail of above. |
But when I just paint color and lines it turns out a lot better than when I try for true abstraction.
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| Detail of above. |
I find the color and shape of pieces like this to be really interesting to look at and very relaxing to paint.
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| Rainbow. 5"x7". Acrylics on Canvas Board. |
This is another mini one I did on the same day in just a few minutes. I think I'm going to try to do a big one soon. Stay tuned, viewers!
