Rational Abstract Art

                                                                Matching Quiz 2     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. Arp,  Herrera,  Oldenburg,  rooster,  Process,  Sol LeWitt,  Tensegrity  Olitski,  Bilbao,   Frize,  Crawford,  Ritter,  Aborigines,  Vogels  Complete each line with the best matching word. 1.   He made texture paintings wearing mitts. 2.  Animal sculpture overseeing Trafalgar Square. 3....

                                  Collage and Decollage On a Grand Scale For convenience we will use the term paper loosely to stand also for light or heavy cardboard or sheet material.  A collage is an artwork made by placing papers on a substrate either as complete layers or as bits and pieces to create a design.  In contrast, decollage is an artwork made by partially undoing a collage by removing parts of it by peeling, scraping, or abrading.  The decollage is interesting in proportion to the piled up layers that can be lifted off in places to reveal various undersheets.  Decollage in French means to lift off.  Incidentally, on YouTube the search term decollage brings up videos of airplanes taking off ‒ lifting off ‒ at surprisingly steep angles.  The African American artist Mark Bradford...

                                                       Exhibition of Artworks with Texture                We begin viewing a series of specific texture examples by recognized artists. Please look at the heavily textured 1989 painting called Eternity Domain done by Jules Olitski. The work is about four feet by six feet and is painted in acrylic by an unusual method.                                                           Olitski used painter’s mitts. Those look like fluffy mittens. The fabric is similar to the nap on paint rollers. Here is how the mitten is commonly used. To paint a raili...

                                                                              NeoDada             Recall the Dada art movement after the first world war, It employed whimsical senseless art as a reaction to a senseless war.                Much later, a Dada inspired group, called Fluxus, arose in the 1960s. It cultivated conceptual visual art and music. One of its founders, George Maciunas, was asked to design a no smoking poster to be used at their meetings. The group opposed smoking even though smoking in the 1960s was popular and widespread.           The No Smoking poster, shown h...