Rational Abstract Art

                                           Reaction, Realization, Feeling              Art is in the eye of the beholder and in the mind too.   Can beholding art arouse feelings?  Well, I invite you to participate in measuring that.  See my attempt  below  at types of feeling or stance or perspective and decide how well those descriptions fit and put your finger on how or why a particular feeling comes about.          Feel free to dispute or have your own opinion because this topic is subjective.  And we might as well admit that music far exceeds art in welling up emotions.          The original title of this post was Feeling.  But the sensory sequence is closer to being these: observation, reaction, realization, then perhaps feeling.  We will in...

                                            Provisionalism          Let's start with a dictionary definition of provisional, that is, arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later.        There is another meaning used in Psychology or in conflict resolution. There, Provisionalism is non defensive communication that shows you are not completely certain you are correct (or you act that way). That, in turn, allows for the possibility that the other person is correct.             Still another meaning exists in religion, philosophy, and science. It holds that knowledge is provisional and subject to change or revision in the future.                                  ...

                                                Quiz 3                                          Matching Quiz        Note that this quiz could be used in reverse if desired.  If you see something that interests you in the quiz, you can then look for it in the posts or even use the search box to find it. -----------------------------------------         Please select from the following list of match words. Migrant life vests, performance art,  Neo Pointillism,  Imperfect Paintings, Tate Modern museum, lines or dots, Emil Nolde,  Anish Kapoor,  Olafur Eliasson, Silvia Bachli, Roy Lichtenstein           Complete each line with the best matching word. 1. She ma...

                                          Painterly Drawing                       Traditional drawing is done with a pencil or pen that makes a fine line.  Expanding on that, a brush can be used to make a Brush Drawing.  These have a wider stroke but are not used to fill regions in the way that paintings do.  Generally speaking, drawings show strokes.           Note that the Lichtenstein works recently seen have outlining, fill lines, and dots that give some of the  character of  a drawing.                                                             Drawings by Two Women Artists        ...

                                        Pop Art f rom  Comics        Later in this post we will examine some of Lichtenstein's abstract works but we will start with the pop art that raised him to prominence.           In the 1960s within the Pop Art movement, Roy Lichtenstein was appropriating images from comic books.  He kept the comic frame word bubbles or changed them slightly or even omitted them.         Please see one of Lichtenstein's most valued and iconic paintings.   It is called In the Car and is about 6 by 7 feet and done in Magna (early acrylic) and oil paint.  It resides in the National Gallery of Scotland.                                          ...