Comments on: Understanding Contemporary and Modern Abstract Art

By: Abstract painting | Destroying and remaking a painting | yasoypintor | Contemporary and abstract art

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:43:40 +0000

[…] in this video, when you are able to use the difficulty in your favor (in my case the difficulty was the fustration of not being able to create something interesting, and having to paint over and over again on a “destroyed and irregular” surface) the […]

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:21:56 +0000

Hola, gracias por tus comentarios. Yo aún no he estado pero me gustaría poderlo hacer algún día (sobre todo antes de que se contamine totalmente por la forma occidental de vivir),

Hasta pronto

Antonio Basso

By: Ea Pozoblock

Ea Pozoblock — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:03:18 +0000

Interesante e ilustrativa tu propuesta. Será un sitio que visitaré frecuentemente. Un saludo

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:44:34 +0000

Gracias José Antonio.

By: José Antonio Buitrago

José Antonio Buitrago — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:34:52 +0000

Interesantísimo blog. Espero seguirlo con atención. Saludos, José Antonio Buitrago

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:59:45 +0000

Hi Timothy, thanks for sharing your interesting thoughts. From what you say I remark: “the alienation of the individual from nature”; and the fact that some modern art (not all) “is on certain levels more complicated than it appears”. I would say that Joan Miró´s art or the one of the american minimalists are good examples of this, just to name a few.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:53:22 +0000

Hi Rosângela, I completly agree with you. Art must represent emotions and sensations. Why would you want to represent reality when reality is already excellent the way it is and can not be improved. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

By: Rosângela Vig

Rosângela Vig — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:14:31 +0000

I’ve studied Moder Art very deeply, according to the principles of Plato, Kant and Schiller.
The idea of Modern Art is to evoke the deepest feelings, such as music does.
The main idea of Art is to provoke em emotions in the person, not to present the reality. That’s exactly what the African Art does. and the African Art influenced Picasso’s Demoiselles D”Avignon and Guernica. We have to understand Art like this, not as the reality, but as a representation of it, as sensations. That’s what happens when we listen to music.

By: Timothy Roepe

Timothy Roepe — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:59:16 +0000

The relationship between modernism and primitivism is generally understood. Picasso’s use of African masks is the strongest case in point. It, in a way, seems to be part of a shift in concentration away from the outer worlds of observation and the inner worlds that developed with urbanization and the industrial revolution up to the atomic bomb….some say the alienation of the individual from nature. Modernism in part, expresses this shift in expression, and explores primitive motifs as their formal essence shared a common aesthetic.
What appears to be raised is what comes out in the discussion of “content” or intention of the work; the old relationship of motive and motif shows that modernism, though striving for some sort of simplicity, is on certain levels more comlicated than it appears. Look at dilineations of movements and styles in fifty years, for instance

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:28:59 +0000

Hi Yolanda, I´m glad you found this art post interesting. It was a real pleasure writing it. Thanks for you comments.

By: yolanda

yolanda — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:53:06 +0000

I have read carefully your post, I did not know this painter but you have explained his work so well that I know now another great artis, thanks Antonio to share with us your kwoledge and your art:-)

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:32:38 +0000

Hi Edward, I completly agree with you. Words are not enough to describe what this images evoke. Probably your are rigth with the fact that abstract art (which at the end is only two words) is timeless. You can find it in nature since our origens. It´s only a question of seeking it. Thanks for you comments and congratulations for your art.

By: edward jensen

edward jensen — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:01:14 +0000

These photographs evoke beauty that exceeds the capacity of verbal explanation, a language in itself, much like that of poetry, awakening our inner spirit. Abstract art is not modern or contemporary, it is timeless, older than spoken language. Thank you.