Your views on abstract paintings

[BuddhaGeo]

What are your views on abstract paintings?
Do you find them boring, uncreative, a mere compilation of eye candy colors on a canvas, or do you find them immersing and self-expressing?

[Jamie (K)]

I don't have a problem with abstract art, because I was educated in it at art school.

People usually have a problem with it because they think a painting needs to be a picture of something. However, photography does a much better job of creating pictures, so in the early 20th century artists decided that paintings can be just about color and form. Actually, this started in the 19th century, even when the artists were still creating pictorial images. For example, the famous painting that most people call "Whistler's Mother" is really titled "Arrangement in Gray and Black". The more an artist paints, the more interested he gets in the materials themselves, and the more he realizes that no painter can create depictions or real life that are better than real life, so most decide it's futile to try. Creating abstract art is often more like decorating a cake or cookie than it is like what most people think of as painting.

But here's the funny thing: People who love many forms of abstract art hate it when it's put on the wall. Someone could find the pattern on a fabric, or a quilt, or a cake, beautiful, but if you painted the same pattern with the same colors and put it on a wall, they'll complain that it's stupid or doesn't make any sense. They may even get angry.

[Ralf]

[BuddhaGeo]

[Slava]

Hi BuddhaGeo,
Tremendous picture!
I'm really very impressed!
Regards,
Slava

[Ralf]

[BuddhaGeo]

[edwin]

Hi,if you think it is an ART then it is or it's just worthless and means nothing.

Edwin
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[Jamie (K)]

One thing I know is that the artist is right handed.

[Nicholas]

Oh...red, white and yellow go together in pairs....hmmmm
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[Nicholas]

[NinaZara]

I think artists expect too much from others. I think, I can only appreciate the art, if the person who painted it is somebody I know, I mean really know, might be somebody that I care or love. That way, I might understand his art and passion. But if he is a total stranger, on what basis can I understand and appreciate the art, when it is so abstract?

And I think title helps too. Like the second painting. It made me think, why does a RED devil have a WHITE wing? I don't know, but I should think the artist is trying to say something.

Anyway, bravo on finishing them. In secondary school I only like doing art with color pencils but my teacher insisted they are for small children. Most of my paintings were rated D. I think the teacher was very tempted to fail me . Except the ones done in color pencils. My teacher kept them all. I used to think it was stupid that we weren't allowed to use the tools that we want, but now I know, the teacher was only trying to teach us to use as many tools.
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[Jamie (K)]