[WICKED]

As I was looking through sijun I realized how i've never really looked into abstract art. A few months ago I had just visited an art museum and was pretty pleased with some of the paintings I saw. So simple but yet they attracted me. So I ask what makes and attractive piece?

Yes this is very simple, but I wanted to get the same type of feel.
Show your abstract pieces

[Jezebel]

I'm actually not a -huge- fan of abstract art, but I'm curious... what is this picture an abstraction of?

[geoman2k]

i like it... i think it woulda been a lot better if it werent cropped so small... what i mean is i the lines shouldn't have gone off the page

[Ahcri]

Well, if it's abstract, then it's not supposed to be anything. The artist can claim all they want, it could suggest objects, figures, or states of mind. I'm all for good abstract art, but sometimes I don't entirely understand it either.

For example, I don't understand this picture above. My first question for Wicked is what medium did you use? If it's done digitally, then I don't really see the point of it. I do like the layered effect, it shows how darker colours are in the background and brighter colours in the foreground, it's one of the advantages of using digital medium, I guess, so that you don't have to wait for the paint to completely dry off. Another thing is that it lacks variety in style: all the lines are headed for the same direction, and they all using the same size of brush.
If you use real paint, it's easier to blend the colours and add variation to the lines. You'll just get the feeling when you pick up your brush. Try it.

[ December 02, 2001: Message edited by: Ahcri ]

[Kamal]

Cool! I love abstract art. I've actually discovered how much I enjoy doing it myself.
I've got some stuff on my web page here:

Kamal's Abstract Stuff

It's mostly abstract art that combines traditional and digital media.

Abstract art, I feel, is mostly about color, pattern, flow and I guess compositions as well. It's a really powerfull form of art because it leaves a lot of up to the viewer. The difference between abstract art and illustration is kind of like the difference between a song and a melody.

Kamal

[WICKED]

Thanks guys.

Yes this was done in digital. I would of rather used conventional paints, but for right now I'm broke and cant afford them
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Jezebel- In a weird way im trying to reflect how i feel about a few things right now. Im stuck in the middle of two things and im not sure which way to go. Heh but you guys can think what you want out of it, thats the fun with art.

geoman2k- thanks I actually like the idea about not crooping it im going to change my version.

Ahcri- I always have a problem with brush sizes. Its easier for me to show it with conventional art mediums. I did use different brush sizes but the big ones I used in the background and thats when they got lost when I added the foreground to it. Ill try the real brush next time .

Kamal- great stuff man I saw your abstarct paintings. I really liked the golden field. I would hang that up in my house if i could =).

[Jezebel]

Achri

(quoted from a website with art terminology)

"Abstract" is frequently misunderstood as synonymous with non-representational or non-objective. Abstraction is the act of transforming visible forms into a pattern resembling the original model. Something of the original form remains, although radically interpreted through varying degrees of stylization, simplification or reduction. Think of reading the "abstract" of a paper. You expect the abstract to give you a representation of the paper, but in a greatly condensed or compressed manner. This is an analogy I use frequently, even though image making is not the same as writing.

This is the way my art teachers always taught me. Abstract are IS something, it just is so simplified or changed that it doesn't look like the initial subject anymore. Non-objective art would be random splotches of paint that don't really mean anything. So that's why I asked what his painting was an abstraction of

If I'm wrong about this, someone feel free to correct me. But I've always been told that everyone is quick to call art they don't necessarily understand "abstract" when it isn't always so.



[ December 03, 2001: Message edited by: Jezebel ]

[Ahcri]

Hmm.. but I actually heard the opposite. I think abstract IS non-representational and non-objective. Give me some time and I think I'll find a quote somewhere..

ps. Maybe what you're talking about is the original abstraction that was derived from Cubism, like Mondrian's tree paintings, the large fields of square are actually transformed from a painting of a tree. And the non-objective abstraction I was talking about is Malevich's Suprematism and its offsprings, where a black square means a black square, and a drip of paint means a drip of paint.

[ December 03, 2001: Message edited by: Ahcri ]

[Ahcri]

Forgot to post my old abstract drawings. The image is quite large, so you have to click on the link.
http://www.gameart.com/ahcri/art/o/smoke1.jpg

[WICKED]

Yeah I think Ahcri is right with his defenition.

I like your painting. The bottom part really gets my attention, but the top part seems a little to bright. It has to much white I think. What is it supposed to be?

[Ahcri]

It's smoke, I guess. I started without thinking and just drew from my mind. After I made a big mess, I started to polish the drawing and added some shades and background to it. Because it kind of look like smoke, so I called it that.

[blahblah]

good abstract art is good design. The same princibles of making a nice looking page layout applies to making a nice looking abstract painting. Its where the lines/shapes/colors go that makes it pleasing to the eye.