What Is Abstract Art?
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- What is abstract art? Why do artists insist on making it and why do the majority of the public dislike it so much? In this video we explore this topic in broad strokes. No pun intended. We take a look at the history of abstraction, what it was reacting against and why artists chose to depict their world in this way. We also take a quick look at some of the methods and modes of abstraction, ways it can be inspired and how it can be read and understood in artworks.
Asking what is abstraction is a pretty complex topic and this video only offers an overview. Future videos will explore some of the concepts listed in this video in more detail including materiality, the works of Kandinsky and the spiritual successor of abstraction, abstract expressionism.
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Enjoying the way the tree is painted and not the actually tree is such a simple and understandable way to approach the subject and even just art in general. I loved that.
Thanks for sharing. We covered abstract expressionism in a U.S. art history class I took long ago in grad school. The abstract pictures I enjoy are the ones that, like you say, have a sense of relationship among the colors. That and where the shapes presented seem to relate somehow to one another. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
I’m just now getting into abstract art and thought about learning the history of it. I enjoyed the presentation of this video and hope you continue to make more.. kudos
Glad you liked it and thanks for the comment!
Hilma af Klint, Swedish painter born in 1862 was the pioneer of abstract art. Her work was little understood back then. I hope she gets the credit she deserves.
Going to be taking a look at her stuff in the near future, they're amazing
@@theartshole311 Thanks a lot! Please keep posting content, it is hard to find good, useful art related videos in you tube nowadays 🎨
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YT just pushed you up in my face and I LOVE your content. Binge watching ev-er-y-thiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
It’s a song with no lyrics.
So instrumental music?
It's what you feel when you listen/see
Its more like free jazz if we are talking about a comparison with music.
@@123agidee_2 No not really. Most abstract art, at least on on a more competent level, has underlying structure. I don't even think instrumental music is a good comparison. Do words in music symbolize a subject in art? The subject of an abstract painting is sometimes formal, sometimes not, but always contains one.
Like jazz or hard bop jazz
I love this art style. I use this in all of my art
"Abstract Err" :D cool way of saying "Art"
Ha, it was a very Avant garde move of mine to make a channel based entirely around a word I apparently can't pronounce
Travel around the British Isles and Ireland, and you see a lot of ‘vowel switching’ going on. There’s a great CZcams vid where a voice actor demonstrates this, fascinating stuff. In the same way the artist employs tonal variation, so does the voice across geographical distance. Irish accent = always a beautiful thing 😎🥰🍀
Are you mad bro art is called art
@@sarikajain159 yeah but it's pronounced ART, not ART
it sounds like
"err" at the beginning that's all
Really nice and informative video! I would love to see you make a video on more strict modern artistic minimalism though as at least I have never really come around to see why its so profound in comparison to the (in my opinion) much greater works of abstract artists like Kandinsky.
Thanks! Videos on minimalism and the more out there modernists are coming, though I'll be covering a bunch of other stuff in the meantime(including Kandinsky in more depth) in order to present the fullest case possible for its value
that last line was really intriguing using abstraction to wage an ideological war.. where can i learn more about that
Hopefully here on this channel once I get around to it. The book The Cultural Cold War by Francis Stoner Saunders is a good resource if you want to read up on it in the meantime
You are phenomenally gifted at what you do, please do much, much more of it! thank you :)
Thanks for your kind words! I'll keep it up if people enjoy it, more new videos are coming soon
Beautiful, and even abstract and figurative art can coexist. The same is true for the coexistence of abstract and portrait art. 💜🌹😍🤩😎⭐️🕊
As an Art Educator, I appreciate what you have created here. I do however have a criticism about your use of the word "Abstract."
Abstract is just a word that means "Changed from reality" and can be a very mild alteration of a subject to enhance or push the subject. Van Gogh's Starry Night does this. We know night skys do not really look like that, but because he did, it's adds a poetic mood to the work. Other 20th century modes abstracted much more, like Picasso's cubism. Subject remain, but are changed more dramatically. Much of the non-subjective work you mention here crosses over into Abstract Expressionism, where the artist expresses feeling, records their body movenets, or experiments within their art. However, you just speak about it as "abstract" when abstration is taking a subject and altering it slightly or dramatically (Constantin Brâncuși and Klee did that for sure as you mentioned) The works of Kandinsky, Pollock, or Rothko are not based on actal image, and therefore are not "abstract."
...and why stick figure boobs at 7:40m?
thank you for your criticism, I'm still figuring out the best way to go about making these videos and every bit of feedback helps. As you are someone who is interested in art education I find your comment very helpful. firstly I understand that I simplified the various nuances of abstraction in this video. I wanted to make something that would serve as a basic overview of the ideas and reasoning behind abstraction. as you said kandinsky, pollock etc can be considered to not fall under this general banner but in terms of public perception their works are often considered somewhat emblematic of abstraction itself. they are recognisable as being examples of abstract art to the public which is why I used them. I focused in on those as a way of making what I was talking about clear to an audience that may have little to no conception of these ideas beyond the fact that abstract painting exists.
I also attempted to show the wide variety of possibilities for how abstraction can be handled and implemented as I touched on the various methods that could be employed in the process. it was not my intention to simply write it off as embellishing reality and simplify these works.
it was also not my intention to misconstrue the information or make it seem like abstraction is more or less than what it is. it was simply an attempt to see if I could convey some simple and relatable concepts in a way that people with little or no art background will be able to approach. if I had gone into the details of every little bit of abstraction here the video would be ten hours long and I'd never finish writing it. I hope that in my efforts I have not muddled or mangled the information too much. I'm finding that the format of making videos is changing my writing style as I adapt to fit a different medium. As a result I fear that I may misconstrue or omit information without realising while I get used to what works for recording and editing. I will try harder in the future to make videos that are both concise and understandable while also not misconstruing the topic at hand.
as I said this video was intended to be a very simple overview, i find with a lot of topics in art there is a knowledge barrier to entry which I am trying to minimalise by keeping things simple. I will be making more videos on these topics in the future and I hope to explore the depths of the work produced by the various artists you mentioned.
secondly the stick figure. idle hands are the devils plaything as they say. I like the painting and while editing wanted to see if I could alter the image somehow. the idea that occured to me was to draw something deliberately crude with the mouse, the kind of thing a child or teen may doodle on a wall or the back of a notebook. with my awful sense of humour the juxtaposition of the austere gentlemen in the painting with the cruidity of the stick figure tickled my funny bone. in retrospect considering what I was talking about it may have come across in a way that I didn't intend. it had nothing to do with the video and is just a case of playing around with new tools. I am not very good with computers in general and I'm learning what I can do as I go. it had no other meaning beyond being a crude joke unfortunately. if it is offensive or distracting, or makes the video harder to understand I would have no problem removing it. I guess. wasn't something I considered to deeply to be honest. I want these videos to be relatively informal rather than being austere and purely pedagogical. I would like them to be a bit more human and hopefully relatable overall.
Thanks again for your comment, I would be very interested to hear if you have any more advice which will help me hammer these videos into a more useful shape. I'm only learning how to go about doing this and it all helps a lot.
Wait ... starry night is abstract? I thought it was Impressionism.. 😫😫
Wow! I'm someone who has studied art seriously and I'm extremely surprised to find here just how differently from me people understand the term abstract. In understanding it, I always thought back to English lessons at school when we were taught that there are concrete nouns like 'vase' and 'group,' and there were abstract nouns like 'love' and 'principle.' So for me, when it came to art, there was figurative art, which depicted concrete things, and abstract art, which did not. People do, however, talk about concrete things in figurative art being abstracted when they are depicted less naturalistically.
@@waynekasmar4401 Thanks, that's how I understood Abstract Art too!
I love the video and think that the true value of abstraction is that it communicates through basic elements much like Music. And another characteristic might be that it always has an unknown dimension - maybe like life -
so in a way all the inspiration, experience as observation is somehow ways of expressing and communication sensing of significance and as such human experience as synkinaesthetic - and all artforms not just Music take inspiration from human deep experience of life 🎶💜🎵
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Hi... So, I re-watched this video after watching your video on Formal Elements of Art (which, I reiterate, should be teh first vid on your playlist). And I also watched a 6 part vid series called 'The Rules of Abstraction with Matthew Collings' on the channel art documentaries, and the clarifications I had got from your Formal Elements video about technical terms really helped me follow the series. so thanks.
I am still very much a novice, yet I'l venture to state something I was thinking about abstract art: so, regarding why people find it difficult to understand abstract art, or get confused what to think or feel, really don't know how to react - may be one reason for that is spontaneous emotion is triggered by identification. and may be pure forms and colours do not generate that emotion, coz people don't identify with it. this may be a bit clouded by my literature orientation - but in case of drama, novels, stories, even poems - poeple generally respond when they identify either with the character, or the situation, or the mood, anything. may be that is applicable to other forms of art too. may be the purity of pure form is a detriment to its appeal to art novices, common viewers without knowledge of how and why art got there.
The rules of Abstraction is a great series, if you're looking for other good ones Shock of the new by Robert Hughes and Way of Seeing by John Berger are worth a look too. As for identifying with art and pure form, I do think you're on to something. In general people will find it much easier to identify with something recognizable than an abstract concept. I think of it in regard to music, almost anyone can enjoy a simple pop song, but to those whose ear is more developed more formal complexity may be required.
@@theartshole311Completely agree with u regarding music. Even in India we have classical Indian music which really revolves around notes and melody and rhythm and "raagas'. And you have songs, a whole range of songs, semi-classical (quintessentially Indian genre - a derivative form of Hindustani classical music but blended with more flexible and popular elements of love poetry, folks music, etc ) , spiritual, nationalistic, political, resistance, romantic, pop, filmi (songs used in Bollywood fllms) and so on - and unless u have a trained ear, u generally can not fully appreciate Indian classical music. The songs, on the other hand, with their lyrics - be it some deep philosophical poetry or resistance poetry or run-of-mill love-song lyrics - are more understandable to novices. It is as if the words make the emotions, expressed by them (i.e. the lyrics) and the melody combined, more identifiable... May be the figures and shapes of nature and expressions on faces in paintings work in the same way.
@@theartshole311 I'l add an anecdote: So, we had a chapter on European Renaissance in our 7th grade (std 7 / class 7) history text book. Just very basic stuff. And it was a regular textbook, non-glossy pages, longish medium sized. For whatever reason the writer or publisher had included 4-5 full page pics of some Renaissance art - there was creation of Adam, one of Raphael's Madonna, the Last Supper, Michelangelo's Pieta, and perhaps a couple I am forgetting. I didn't know anything about art - well except mandatory school drawing. Nor was I steeped in catholic or christian culture. (I did study in a Catholic school, but it wasn't really a strongly catholic catholic school, especially for non-christian students - we didn't have to learn Catholicism or have bible-study, or attend mass, or anything like that). Yet, somehow I just was so overwhelmed by that non-glossy text-book size print of The Pieta I used to look at it for several minutes and often for quite some time. there was just something in the expression of the bereaved mother that was so sad and so beautiful that my 13 year old self was drawn to it repeatedly. And I did something that I have never done in my life before or since - next year a junior schoolmate wanted me to give her my textbook so she could use it, and I carefully cut off the page with the pictures (fortunately they were pages with pics on both side s, so there was no loss of study material) and kept them in this desk drawer I had at home, and for many years I used to take out the Pieta page and look at it. Much later I learnt to notice the other technical finesse and features of the sculpture, but the first thing that just had this spontaneous yet very long-lasting appeal was something in that expression that made me feel something very powerful... I still have those pages. Although now u get to see stuff on your mobile and laptop and don't need to take out torn-off textbook pages kept carefully in drawers... Anyway, just wanted to share this since we were talking about identification that arouses emotion in viewers.
@@theartshole311 Thanks a ton for the suggestions. I have watched ways of Seeing, found it immensely interesting and intriguing and stimulating. Re-watching it now.
Will be watching The Shock of the New after re-watching Berger.
Thanks a ton.
Thanks for sharing that anecdote, I know what you mean when an image resonates with you like that. The Pieta is a very striking work alright, I find it interesting that even without the catholic background it still resonates in such a universal manner. Modern art tends to move away from such religious imagery as its symbology is less well understood outside of historically catholic/christian cultures, yet some works like the Pieta seem to overcome this. I also sympathize with wanting to keep the picture! I must have drawers full of images I hold onto for drawing reference or just because something in it speaks to me
I tried to draw normal but this is just where my head goes something feel right when I draw my lines and add more things to the paper
This is a great video!
As an arts educator I try to find videos to show my students...so they don't think I'm just making stuff. The overview of abstraction fits into what I've been talking about and showing them.
I laughed out loud at the stick figure with boobs edited on to the academy painting. Well played.
Thank you, glad to hear it is useful!
very informative, and spesificly described, altough the english is a bit too advanced for me (indonesian) but i am learning a lot!
Thank you, that's a very good point that I admit I had not considered, in future I'll try to make sure the language is more easy to follow.
Excellent video. Much appreciated man
My pleasure!
Very thoughtful explanation. I know now as much as before. I believe that these " painters " were mostly painting for themselves. Only they knew what they were painting. If you ask them what they were painting, you have to do so quickly, as tomorrow they might not remember what they saw when they painted the " art work ". To avoid these complications and to avoid delving into the mind of many of the modern or contemporary " artists " , one could simply go to an art gallery and have a look at art produced by painters who knew how to paint. The mind would also be grateful, not to have to make useless summersaults in aid of nothing worthwhile.
Your making the assumption AS IF its objective that people should know what they are painting therefore it should be representational and clear to everyone...BUT that's just a subjective opinion and one of taste and not definition...That wouldn't explain at all how a painter like Gerhard Richter can paint people and landscapes and such, realistically as well as choose to paint abstraction ..Are Richter's abstractions just paintings he is "doing for himself" yet remain some of his most popular and talked about works? It seems clear in this instance that his and other abstract painter's works are accessible to more then just the painter's that make them? ...Where you are going wrong here is in again in the suggestion that the subject matter be clear to everyone what it is...the subject matter of abstraction very often are new objects never before seen and its best to keep that under consideration when critiquing a whole mode of painting...People that appreciate abstraction like myself realize these issues and they offer no impediment to the enjoyment of abstract art itself.
@@HANECart1960 You say that under the assumption that the painters are painting for anyone at all and that there is a "Gerhard Ricter".
@@iamasalad9080 Thnx Buddha..
I like a lot of abstract art but i think it led in a lot of charlatans through hack critics like clement greenberg who promoted foolish trendy nonsense like flatness
Great video! It was really helpful
Thanks glad it helped
Such brilliant videos! Come back! The world could use more quality content about art which is as fun and easy to digest as yours.
Thanks, I will be back, I have no PC right now, once I sort that I'll have more videos coming soon
give them something to look at,,thats what its about ,and releasing the inner stresses they cant see ,if they like looking at it ,u will be famous and they will talk about you for a long time ,art is what we do ,abstract is creating a new reality that only you know ,and they want to know ,Humans need to be entertained ,art is the original form of expression and entertainment ,there is something for every one ,good video
For me it's all about the experience, you have to see and feel the textures, lines, etc. Go to the gallery and see it yourself
That is why I like to do Abstract
So informative video. Keep going!
Thank you! Will do!
I love this video because you explain the truth the world needs art. Art helps the pain in this world. Thank you
To paraphrase the great “new objectivity” painter Otto Dix, “non representational art is art, in the sense that wallpaper is art.”
It doesn't sound like he had a great grasp on what abstract art is. It was still fairly new during his time. I could quote many famous representational artists who understand it much better.
A lot of modern art is essentially graphic design
Abstract art is why we need art history... sometimes we just don't get where things are coming from.
What I understand is Abstract art is totally depends on ur own imagine nd what u see in Messier way nd represent.... with enjoying the prosses
Good video! I love this stuff
Thanks!
For me abstract art is the purest way for a piece to create itself.
amazing intro into abstract art for the newbies
Thanks!
I am an abstract artist although my art has some representation. Nice video
So i can draw or paint whatever i want in abstract art?
@@therealmate1767 basically. It could be anything. It's very subjective art. It could have a meaning or not.
Abstract Eeert
Very interesting and informative as usual! I didn’t understand the part at the end about using abstraction to wage a cultural and ideological war. What do you mean?
I know, right?! What a cliffhanger! Makes me want to see the sequel. Maybe he’s referencing Nazi Germany’s squashing of abstract art? But then again, he refers to America - so maybe it’s Warhol who killed abstraction? So many questions!
Sorry, I probably got a bit carried away putting that bit at the end without fully explaining what I meant! I was referring to what happened after the second world war when the US began championing abstract art in opposition to the Soviet realism of the USSR as a part of Cold war politics. Its a very interesting part of art history that I'll finally get around to covering later this year when we get to abstract expressionism. Apologies for being unclear!
Thank you for sharing ❤
I do Abstract. It can be what people want it to be.
Great!
Hmmm if i'm not mistaken, Hilma Af Klint was actually the first abstract painter.
She may well be, she's one that I intend to do a video about at some stage. The subject of first abstract painter is something of a chicken and egg question too, shes a good candidate but I bet you could go back further and find other examples too
Great Video , subscribed .. the channel name made me lol..
Thanks, glad I'm not the only one who found the name amusing
yo dude wanted to ask you where did u get the info that joshua reynalds actually wrote that book? thanks
Sorry it's been a while since I did this one, which book is it you'r referring too? Reynolds has a few books out there but I must say the thought that he himself had not wrote them didn't occur to me!
Could somebody let me know the piece at 4:00, I'd love to see more of that
That's from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights
Abstract art is a very special category. It's most salient feature is that there have been so remarkably few good practitioners, so very few artists capable of genuinely formulating clear ideas and expressing them definitively. I find that most well-known abstract artists leave a lot to be desired; this includes those like Kandinsky, Klee, Stella, much by Pollock, and on and on. Their works are often cluttered and badly organized and reveal poor color sense and design, although Pollock produced much more interesting paintings based on subject matter. We see only a few abstract artists of real merit and clarity: Mondrian, Malevich, Rothko. And I add Matisse, Picasso, and Gorky, even though these artists usually based their art on recognizable subjects. So while I hold out much hope for abstract art, it is an extremely rare artist who truly excels in this field. Most bad abstract art just takes up space, and is so often overrated. The bottom line is that abstract art just has not panned out, with so precious few exceptions.
Rothko? Are you ____ing nuts? He's the nadir of relying on apophenia to seem profound. Im hoping your message is supposed to be dry trolling
@@greghuffman3061 I mentioned a number of very good artists besides Rothko. If asked to rank them, I would place the other five above him as for composition, abilities, and ideas. Still, there are admiral qualities in Rothko.
Hieronymus Bosch was a mad genius of some kind. A futuristic version of Pieter Brueghel (perhaps discuss that artist!)
Lol, that's a great description of Bosch, he's on my list of artists to cover, will definitely discuss him (and Bruegel too) in the future
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Appreciating much modern art, whether figurative or abstract, depends on spending time looking at it. Generally speaking , the more you look at it the more you can end up liking it. But it's not all that easy to begin with. You really have to be prepared to study it. That can start out being a dry sort of experience. But if you persevere the rewards can be great.
3:14 whose work is this ?
it looks wonderful
That is a nice one, it's called "murnau street with women" by Kandinsky
Can you please name the painter & painting at 0:59 (green squares) and 1:21 (palms/hands) ?
And also the first one shown in the video?
This was extremely helpful
Glad to hear it!
Grateful to have found African American Abstract Artist that are getting their recognition finally 💜
Compmaturism as a direction based on the emotional process of creation does not allow for direct consumption. There are no glazed delicacies served on a tray. Here it all starts again and continues.
You can contemplate the works for a long time. Each of them receives a new story.
The DADA movement was said to be a reaction against Capitalism, so not altogether non-sensical
Very true, we will be getting to DADA soon, looking forward to discussing that very aspect of it
7:43 My gawd. It's a masterpiece. A million dollars for that fine work.
Can someone please tell me which painting is at 1:17?
Its the opening of the fifth seal by El Greco
I feel it. Gorn the journey. Trapstop! We, us, they inside are the artsprinkler for sophisticated daddy-o$
I searched intentionaly for this vid. its a good vid
I prefer abstract art over other art forms.
What brought about the fall of abstraction in the eyes of the public? What happened after WW2? left me on the edge..
I'll get to it one day, were working towards abstract expressionism and the role of art in the culture war between the US and Russia in the 50's but I've got a lot to cover before we get there.
@@theartshole311 oh thanks!! I have some hints now :)
@@theartshole311 Looking forward to that video!
Nice from india...
i'm vibing with background music
I'm not convinced that the 'public' don't like it though, but perhaps I am confusing the public with the collectors. It seems to fetch high prices at auctions, if it has the appropriate signature at the bottom. Perhaps it is merely the signature that is fetching the high price? Maybe. I have tried, but cannot paint in a totally abstract way; I find that I always find a point of recognition of familiar ground within the work, and thereafter, I can only tease out that truth from within the painting.
You, sir, are more than genius!!! Absolute, resonating truth!
Thanks!
Let’s just say that I needed help thanks
No worries, hope it helped
@@theartshole311 oh and it did thanks I got a 10/10 points on my homework because of you thank you
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I adore in abtract art, that help to handle my feeling. Thank you very much.
You're welcome 😊
A well said video
This made me view abstract art in a new way, do I now like it? Nah shall see. But now its different.
interesting
Abstraction in art is fine with me, we see it from Turner and before, but calling simple abstraction on it's own great art is like calling both the sound of smashed glass and Mozart's requiem great music - both are noise, but only one is great music. Let's call it what it really is - a pretentious pattern. Most look like the wallpaper printer had a seizure, the better stuff looks like good wallpaper. It really is that shallow. Those claiming a pretentious collection of patterns to have depth ( expressive, philosophical or even artistic) is simply helping sell the snake oil they've been gullible enough to buy themselves.
that piano was driving me crazy.
This has me questioning myself
Dudes really gonna leave us hanging like that at the end
1:15 what's that painting?
Its the Opening of the fifth seal by El Greco
Unfortunately couldn’t catch what was. Being said because plinkyplonk piano music.
Plinkyplonk piano music was a mistake! Don't use it anymore (dunno what I was thinking, it's hard enough to understand what I'm saying sometimes without it!)
What do you call abstract art that uses lines, shapes, shadows and colors to show illusions that represent different realities simultaneously? (where one line or shape can contribute to two or more realities of characters or objects) like how I could draw a warrior that looks like a monster at the same time but the reality is mixed with random shapes, lines, colors and shadows. Anyone have a good idea?
I know the ones you mean but I've no idea what the term is, possibly Op art? Not strictly the same thing as what you describe but the principal is similar
@@theartshole311 The closest thing I could find was abstract expressionism with an illusion drawing combined but there’s no category for that.
Futurism
Explosion is true art
It's nature. Art is culture.
So it's describing the essence of something through art without necessarily showing how it objectively looks to the eye?
What kind of art snob are you 9:02 ?
A massive one who says flippant things in CZcams videos apparently
9:37. I couldn't do this. I'm not talented enough.
Well, it look better than banana on a wall.
But can you eat it ?
Alzheimer’s art: a grey area between abstract and representational.
Personally, i think almost all art can be defined as abstract. As it never exactly represents real life.
Yeah at the end of the day these terms are pretty fluid
Lol 3:50 is some serious straw man regarding evocation. But I’ll give it credit as funny.
FAUKIN' LUV ERT
Simple as
He sounds like peter griffin in the family guy woaaa(im not mocking or something im actually find it cool) :)
Lol, I've been called a lot of things but that's a new one, I'll take it as a compliment
be explain abstract on MSc: Thesis
That's just fine ending it there no problem at all...🙃
What in the world were those last few sentences about? That was weird.
Sorry it didn’t make much sense! Couldn’t even tell you myself it’s been so long since I made it.Honestly this video is not my best, I wrote and put it together in a very short space of time to see if I could do a video from scratch quickly. Looking back now it really doesn’t work. I may delete it and try again sometime.
The Arts Hole The video is great. Thank you!
So...what is bad abstract art and what is good abstract art?
It can follow the same formal rules as representational art, or not. Art is subjective.
@@ramenlover1727 then we have different definitions of talent.
Good video. But damn bruh, what's up with Err, Err,?
I know, my bloody accent apparently makes the one word I'll definitely have to say repeatedly impossible to pronounce. Gonna work on it!
0:47 OH NO ITS EVERYWHERE, AMOGUS ITS EVERYWHERE
Abstract art and phychadelic art has changed. And so has music and drugsm . It's more of an energy thing. Art and music and rock and roll are kinda more understanding and better than everm. But everyone and everything is "evolving". Or changing so dang fast. Even the police and laws have changed. It's really hard to keep up with it all. And ya trump's not our president anymore. Wasn't so bad. Artists these days are more understanding and way more talented than ever. Politics and the police have changed alot. Secretly I'm really impressed too. Peace.
What I'm trying to say is more modern abstract art and phychadelic art is different from gosh. Idk. Developed artists. I grew up with visual work and low and behold youbasicnis where I start to sprout. Abstract and phychadelic isn't the same. This is understandable too. And music is wild these days..
Instead of representing real things, abstract art represents itself.
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i mean it can be interesting and cool when they put effort on it, not just random bulshit
I think I prefer the "Random Bullshit" paintings where the person looking has to put in as much effort as the artist. One has to use their imagination. It's like looking at clouds on a summer day and seeing animals and people and castles and so on. At a birthday party my daughter put out an empty canvas and paints and everyone had to put something on the canvas. Any color any style, whatever. When you look at the final picture it's somewhat ugly but if you look at it for a bit of time many things present themselves and the picture becomes beautiful. That's the kind of abstract art I enjoy.
@@guitarstrunged Very well put.
@@guitarstrunged haha, fair enough
I still don't get it, it just looks like a mess to me it doesn't give me impressions or emotions, it just looks like a blob of stuff in most of the cases
Same here!! Even my 2 year daughter paints this kind of stuff.
Well, it's subjective Dumbo
Its a soul without figurez
Eng deme keng netetetenen ebewt ert
I paused your narrative at 2seconds to get this comment out before getting distracted by my own fascination with your subject matter. All fans of science especially students of physics eventually realise that there is nothing that stands as a roadblock to truth quite as much as common sense perception! Exactly how comically superficial and completely mistaken our everyday notions of solidity and matter are alone...should make us all stop in our tracks, on a daily basis.. and question the underlying arrogance and mistaken ideas that colour and influence our every judgment and assumption that we base our entire lives on, even our very language. The giant disturbing truth bombs that Sicience has been dropping on humanity since Einstein just gets funneled into that "information overload" wash of inconsequential facts too numerous and overwhelming to possibly properly assimilate by 20th century and now 21st century man.... Except in the Arts! Most especially modern art! Beginning with the Impressionists and then the all important cubists and Kandinsky's literal visual language right through to Jackson Pollocks Resonance with Quantum mechanics who's work is closser to the realities being dealt with at Cern arguably than any Realist painter. If you're interested in the ultimate "ethical" consequences of what I'm on about here regarding these truth bombs watch Episode 11 Knowledge or Certainty by Jacob Bronowski from the Ascent of Man series you'll never regret it.
Very interesting comment, I get where your coming from though not being a student of the sciences myself I won't pretend to have the expertise required to draw parallels between Pollock and Quantum mechanics. Interesting property of the arts though, to be able to draw those parallels with advances in other fields. Also, yes, I saw Ascent of Man many years ago, must give that episode a watch again