My Love of Abstract Art

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esmith

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Why would I post on the topic of chitchat, when I am not a chitchatter? The very fact that I am, shows I do have an interest in interacting with all of you. There are just so many topics, it's hard to focus on one in particular.

I'm one who enjoys hobbies, particularly abstract art, so if I was posting on chitchat, it would be about my love of art. Jackson Pollack is one of my earliest influences. He started a form of art in the 1940's called drip-art. He was a genius in that his works were carefully planned to show a finished canvas that had style, depth and purpose.

My own attempts at painting have been enjoyable, and at times, intense. I don't spend as much time painting as I used, since writing is my first love, but when I see an abstract in a restaurant, someone's home or in a store, I still find myself mesmerized.
 

Not much on the abstracts, I feel they can get too far out there, but I do enjoy the impressionist. My true love though is the equine paintings of the early English artists. I like to paint as well, but have not devoted the time to it as much as my mind wants to. Maybe this spring, I'll feel more like it. Physical problems have taken over my mind lately, and I don't feel so inspired lately.
 
You can always tell it's abstract art because it means nothing to most people, something to a few people and EVERYTHING to a couple of people. And if you turn it upside down the three groups switch places.
 

Shape and color elicit emotion in abstract art. My favorite genres are impressionism and post-impressionism but sometimes abstracts really move me when I see them in person.

This Helen Frankenthaler, Sun Mountain, 1968, is at the Birmingham (AL) Museum of Art. I can't get the link to the museum's page to load, so am guesstimating size when I say it's at least 10' tall or taller. When I first stood before it, I got weepy. Then kept coming back to it throughout the day and it was the first painting I showed my friend during share time that day. We split up after going through exhibits, then allow an hour or so at the end of visits to museums to show each other our favorites.


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https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Sun_Mountain
 
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I've yet to fully appreciate Mark Rothko's artworks, (isn't he the one producing massive canvases of deepish reds hung in a series at the Tate Modern in London, all in one room?).

However, if Picasso's artworks are sometimes abstract enough for you I love and am mesmerised by them, i love surreslist art, though I'm unsettled by it, as we're perhaps supposed to be, and I do appreciate much of the art I see fitting the abstract description too. .:)
 
I've always liked details that make sense. To me abstract has no appeal. It certainly is a matter of personal taste. Diversity in human nature makes it more interesting.
 
I like Kandinsky and Delaurney who were among the original abstract artists in 1900s. Easy to buy their prints. I bought 2 this week for my walls. Cheery and bright
 
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