Harvey Moore
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Abstraction
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Its an abstract now - thanks folk.
sourceNational Gallery of Art said:Abstraction
Painters and sculptors do not always strive to depict persons and objects realistically. Rather than imitate their subject's natural appearance, some artists deliberately change it. They stretch or bend forms, break up shapes, and give objects unlikely textures or colors. Artists make these transformations in an effort to communicate something they cannot convey through realistic treatment. Works of art that reframe nature for expressive effect are called abstract. Art that derives from, but does not represent, a recognizable subject is called nonrepresentational or nonobjective abstraction.
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Energized by new artistic possibilites, American artists synthesized European innovations into a variety of forms.
Lyonel Feininger, The Bicycle Race, 1912, National Gallery of Art, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Lyonel Feininger's cubist constructions incorporate the color and movement typical of Italian futurism. Max Weber and John Marin fractured images and reassembled the faceted planes into dynamic compositions. The organic abstractions of Georgia O'Keeffe and Arthur Dove add a new dimension to familiar forms from the natural world.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, 1930, National Gallery of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe
Arthur Dove, Moth Dance, 1929, National Gallery of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Abstraction dominated American art beginning in the 1930s. Fleeing fascism, a wave of European artists and intellectuals emigrated to the United States, bringing with them avant-garde ideas and artistic approaches. Influenced by the émigrés, American artists became interested in Freudian and Jungian psychological theories that emphasized mythic archetypes, the unconscious, and non-Western imagery. Surrealist art embraced these new theories and tried to illustrate the workings of the unconscious mind.
Arshile Gorky, One Year the Milkweed, 1944, National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1997 The Estate of Arshile Gorky / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Arshile Gorky's One Year the Milkweed combines biomorphic shapes reminiscent of animal or vegetal forms with loose veils of color to evoke an abstract pastoral scene.
Kevin,
The absence of Harvey's picture has a presence. This in itself is a hole in our being. It's defined by being deleted. It is an antithesis.
Asher
Sorry Asher
I have seen Harvey's image, and obviously it would have be an excellent visual support for this discussion....
Harvey can you repost this image please? It is right in the center of the above comments on abstract/abstraction.
Wether it is or not an abstract it is an interesting image to be shared and commented...
No need to change thread of place nor its title.
Hi Klaus,
I deleted your last message, because I guess you 'hit the button' twice. It often happens. If I see it, I normally hard delete it, but just in case you thought I was being 'off on one', I soft deleted it so you could see what was going on. Of course, what you say may well deserve repeating ;-)
wrt your english, usage thereof wrt subtle thoughts, looks OK to me, but then subtle is something that I am not ;-)
Best wishes,
Ray
Should we stop listening to, enjoying and learning from The Beatles because George Harrison and John Lennon are dead? Or Elvis Presley because he's dead? Or the dead Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Vera Lynn, Ted Heath, Miles Davis, Buddy Holly and others in a list much, much longer than Ko-Ko-s?
Just because they're dead?
Photography is NOT a REPRODUCTION of reality - it is always an interpretation of reality.
Of course i know the conventional, academic, explanation of "abstract" - i don´t agree with that. I doubt that some "native" artist would describe his/her cave-paintings or pottery as "abstract" - it´s our cultural orientation which say "this is not recognizable - it´s abstract art" . . .
Would Bach use more modern instruments, if he was alive today? Would he have written rap, or whatever? Would he have extended his music to encompass later mathematical concepts? Would he be happy with the standard of cd reproduction of his original sounds, or would he have said, 'mp3's on an ipod is good enough for me'.<smiles> I just took delivery of 155 CD's, the complete John Sebastian Bach.
Sorry Harvey and others.... did not mean to let that slip from Abstraction and stuff.... but well, you know Alain....
;o)
Alain Briot said:This is a flower, not an abstract.
Abstractions are images where the subject is not recognizable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art