The reason why? The reason why I decided to paint my latest piece of abstract art is due to what I am hearing and seeing on the news. Everyday, the news is full of people deciding to hate other people. Why? Well probably because they are being convinced by other people that is what they […]
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I have entered four paintings into the “A Space to Grow” Exhibition which takes place between the 28th March and 27th April 2024, in the Barony Centre, West Kilbride, North Ayrshire. The original brief was to explore the concept of growth within a creative practice. How a sense of space and place can impact on
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Composition has often been covered within realistic art but rarely mentioned in abstract realism art. This is partly due to the seemingly lack of any need for composition within abstract paintings. However, if we split composition into several parts we can discuss the importance of the need for the viewer to come to some kind
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Colour within Abstract Realism Art is important not only to help the viewer relate to the image but also to appeal to their emotions. Every artist wants their viewer to react in some way to their artwork and by the colours they choose they achieve the desired outcome. With Clements McCulloch’s abstract realism paintings, the
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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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