Tag abstraction

Abstractionism

After more than 100 years of Abstractionism, there are still people who say, ‘I don’t get abstractions, it’s stupid art, I could do the same…’ Seriously? That’s like hearing a language you don’t understand and dismissing it as stupid. It’s…

How to Read a Painting, or My Personal W.T.F

Here is a wonderful example: “Woman with Sunflowers” by Tania Parchouto. A black-and-white inverted negative, it attempts to return to the basics—rock paintings, children’s drawings. The layering of textures and colors, the interplay of black with tiny islands of high-pitched…