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Abstract art inspirations: Best of the week discoveries (II) | yasoypintor — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:08:39 +0000

[…] used, light, space occupancy …. Brilliant!!!. It makes me think about opt art as well as a Dan Flavin light installation of the 60´s. Gabriel Dawe thread installation Gabriel Dawe thread […]

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:58:30 +0000

Hi Tavi, somehow, own background and experiences are some of the elements that determine the way we understand, look and see reality (in this case, Art). After reading your explanation, I understand your point much better.

Thanks for adding Dan Flavin´s colours and perception information.

See you around soon.

Rgds

Antonio

By: Tavi Meyer

Tavi Meyer — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:30:35 +0000

The abstract animations are of course digitally created. As for the others…

Dan Flavin’s installation uses red, blue and green. You can not get closer to the foundations of our perception of colours. It’s carries pure mathematical beauty. The way the colours blend to create all shades in between resembles very much the way our computer displays or digital imaging sensors work.
Cardboard installation looks a bit like computer graphics created on very old computers, such as Amiga, Commodore or first PCs. It’s very much like the first Tron film from 1982.
And then if you remove the background from Monika Grzymala’s installation, for me it resembles very advanced graphics achieved my using programs like 3D Studio Max or Photoshop.

I happen to have a bit of a nerdy background, so in this case it influences the way I see these installations. Mainly because I have seen similar things in the past. Which doesn’t make them less fantastic. The effect achieved here, without the use of computer (except for animations, of course) and using very simple methods is astonishing.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:08:06 +0000

Hi Tavi, thansk for commenting. Yes, the four are spectacular. Interesting your point on their similarity to digital graphic design.

Rgds

Antonio

By: Tavi Meyer

Tavi Meyer — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:47:15 +0000

Excellent installations. What is interesting, they all look very much like digital graphic designs… The last one is absolutely stunning.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:14:34 +0000

Hi Seph. Just saw EV Day photos (http://www.evdaystudio.com/). They are striking. They ensure my believe that creativity has no limits. Worth watching!! Thks for the advice. By the way you are absolutely right with the term “ephemeral”. I guess I did a straight away spanish translation of the word “efímero”. Thks for the advice again.

by the way, I enclose you the following link http://yasoypintor.com/2012/04/15/the-10-most-admired-xxth-century-abstract-artists-add-your-preferences/, please feel free to add your abstract painters preferences.

Thks and see you around soon.

Antonio

By: Seph Rodney

Seph Rodney — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:48:47 +0000

Thanks for these images. The first one, Monika Grzymala, I find most compelling. Wish I had seen that when I was in London. You might like E.V. Day, the exploding wedding dress piece, since you like Grzymala. I would check her out. Also, by the way, did you mean to say ‘ephemeral’ when you wrote efimeral? I am not familiar with that term (is it a real word?).

-Seph

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:08:26 +0000

Hi Carla, thanks for sharing your ideas :). I will try to do my best. By the way have just wrote another article in which I ask readers to name their most admired abstract painters. Feel free to add your preferences http://yasoypintor.com/2012/04/15/the-10-most-admired-xxth-century-abstract-artists-add-your-preferences/
Thks a lot

Antonio Basso

By: carla hendriksen

carla hendriksen — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:57:42 +0000

Carla Hendriksen • Even from the picture you can feel the strenght. Thanks for the inspiration. Hope you will find and share more with us because it’s simply not possible (for me) to see it all in RW.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:37:54 +0000

Hi Lloyd, excellent comment and explanations. As you say, Abstraction is not dead.
To me the 4 are abstract representatios of an imaginary and personal world. Of the 4, the Quayola and Memo Akten video, would be the only one that give us some clues of the original object from where they develope the abstraction.
Thanks for comment and hope to read more of them in the future. Good luck with your art.

By: Lloyd Knowles

Lloyd Knowles — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:58:55 +0000

I really enjoy these 4 works. Especially Monika’s – I’d love to see that, photos are poor representation of art (unless they are art). Making such physical objects seem fluid is incredible imagination.
I do have trouble though with the word abstraction. Of the 4, only the 3rd, the video would I call abstraction. As an architect turned artist, I love modern/contemporary architecture. But architecture is very seldom, almost never (I’ve seen one) an abstraction. They are beautifully sculptural.

Abstraction is a process or result of generalization, removal of properties, or distancing of ideas from objects. In other words, the artist is starting with an object (person, whatever) and using it as the basis of abstraction. Cubism was definitive abstraction; so was impressionism. Arp, Miro & de Kooning stretched the idea further. Abstract Impressionism was probably the ultimate dissolution of the object. Abstraction is not dead, a lot of artist today still use some form of abstraction. To a large extent Abstraction gave way to non-representation where there is nothing to abstract.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:31:28 +0000

Totally agree with you Edward. Amazing what these contemporary artists are able to create. Thks for commenting

By: edward jensen

edward jensen — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:50:00 +0000

Seeing art like this allows us to see imagination become reality.