In the above painting, Summer by the Sea, the visual flow is evident. To explain this better, Visual flow is the natural way your eye will move through an image, in this case the above painting. This compositions has obvious elements that direct your eye like the flowers to the beach; to the flowers then […]
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Shapes in abstract realism paintings are important to convey the messages that the artist wants to send out to their viewers. Ever since humans inhabited the Earth drawings of shapes have been used to leave a message for others to see and understand. Abstract Realism Art uses shapes not only to send a message but
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Abstract Realism – what is it? Abstract Realism can best be explained as Realistic art as in what you can see; similar to photography, meets Abstract art which exists through shapes, colours, textures and line form. How much of each type of art you see in each abstract realism artist work depends on
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky to give him his full title, was a Russian artist. It is generally acknowledged that Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. He was born in Moscow but grew up in Odesa, which is part of Ukraine, where he graduated at Grekov Odesa Art School. In Yellow-Red-Blue, shown below,
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Jackson Pollock the Action Painter Paul Jackson Pollock 1912 – 1956 was an American abstract expressionist painter. He is known for his “Drip Technique” of splashing and pouring paint onto canvas lying flat on the ground. This method allowed him to view the canvas from all different angles. The technique was often called Action painting
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Piet Mondrian – his path to Abstraction Mondrian’s path to Abstract art followed that of almost all abstract artists. At first he was taught to draw then paint and he was inspired by Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. Gradually he migrated to Cubism through Picasso. This was the beginning of Mondrian’s use of straight
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When we paint using the Pouring method to produce Abstract art, we like to look for potential possibilities that images may occur. Sometimes we create these images by manipulating the pour. The above painting – “The Visitors” is one of our favourite paintings because of the images within it. In the painting above, “Mystical” we
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When you ask someone what are your Favourite Colours? Most will mention Blue as one of them. Why is that? My reason is that we see the blue sky and are immediately happy. We associate blue sea with a happy time; perhaps when we were on holiday. Blue is everywhere. So obviously it is our
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Recently, as the weather has began to improve with the season of Spring, I thought of the sea. The blue sky and sea seemed to inspire me to start painting sailing boats. Obviously, I still wanted to stick to abstract art but also to add a bit of realism. The above painting had many people
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It is only someone’s opinion as to what makes good abstract art. However, it can be taken for granted that there will be certain aspects of a painting that will appeal to the majority of viewers. Experts who study paintings will have there own opinion concerning whether a painting can be classified as good abstract
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