Blog Intro:

 I LOVE ABSTRACT ART!

It is often times colorful, full of emotion, impression and hidden messages. There, I said it and for you out there who don’t get it, I get that you don’t, but if you follow along with me, maybe we can take this journey together.  I am not an expert, nor a critic, curator or any such.  I started my art lessons when I was young and the first piece I sold was an abstract, but I wanted to be a fashion person. I ended up in realism and from there into surrealism and air brush. I am a photographer now. I have not painted for years, but I have recently dabbled as with this picture I have posted here.

Often, abstract art receives a negative response. What did that guy mean by that?  I could have done that!  My cat could have done that!

No, you can’t and if your cat could, it might be something else, maybe more interesting. 

Most iconic abstract artists had formal, realistic training and then departed. Thank goodness for art movements or nothing would move at all!  

But, okay, so I sold an abstract at age 15 and spent the bulk of my life ignoring or denying its merit, but recently that changed.  I can't give you much of a motivator other than I was bored with everything else. Why abstract art?  Perhaps, eventually, something will grow on any of us, whatever that is. I have a piece that I picked up in a thrift store and I love it – I try to understand it, I can see what it is, or at least what it shows me, and when I walk past it, I say to myself, gee, I wish I could paint like that. It is so crazy, but so interesting that I always want to have it hung on my walls. .

What is abstract art?  Why did it ever get to that nonsensical stuff?  Perhaps the first of it started with Monet and that crowd in the 1800s. This bunch in their movement, shocking those around them at the time, swashed paint to canvas that sort of looked like a lily pond, but not really.  Impressionists were all about light.  It was their “impression." they had when they saw the play of light, usually upon nature. So, it goes like that with modern or abstract art. Plain and simple, someone got a notion.

Seeing is believing your vision:  Up until I moved to Central NY from Los Angeles, nearly four years ago, I was working in a nonprofit. Donors often buy artwork and then they take the write off by giving it to charity.  There was a long painting outside of one woman's office and she complained that she had to stare at that thing all day long. I looked at it and this may not be “PC,” but bear with me.  I said OMG, it’s fertilization.  My workmate thought I was crazy, so I started pointing out the various aspects of what I thought it was … and it was starting to reveal itself to others!!!  She was even more incensed that she had to stare at it all day long. There was another large painting in that office, rather ugly, but I could see the view from the top of a parking structure looking down on concrete and flower beds.  If you stare at modern art long enough, provided it isn’t one solid color, something might strike you and that’s the fun of it.  One of my co-workers said that he saw nothing more than a pizza right in the middle of it and it made him hungry.  

I will be writing about other abstract artists just to share more.  I don’t pretend to be an expert.  I am an everyday person, inviting you on my adventure.  I’ll be talking about other artists.  I will also be taking you on my journey, talking about certain projects that I have been involved in.

I am posting a watercolor today that I did the other night while I watched tv and I looked at it one way and then I turned it upside down and eerily, it gave me two messages about myself. My right brain was talking and it wasn't speaking English.  I’m going to show to you the work I did the other night.  Think of it what you will. I’ll briefly discuss it later, but right now, I want you to get your own impulses from it. If your dog can spit up and do the same, please share it! If you find Jesus in your toast tomorrow morning, well, there you go! I promise to tell you more in the next episode.I will reveal what I see in my own work.

Thank you for spending this time with me! 

I understand that this little site isn’t for everyone, so if you want to give me feedback, I certainly welcome it, but if I surely don’t meet your standards, then I wish you well and encourage you to seek your truth elsewhere.  Until next time.  Hugs!