Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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INVITING FELLOW ARTISTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS ARTS FORUM OF IDEAS
My name is Lorraine G Huber I am a professional artist working in a variety of media, in a mainly non objective abstract style. I would be interested to hear from other like minded artists worldwide, so that we could exhchange ideas, opinions on art today and make this a forum for open discussion and mutual support. If you would like to contact me please contact me via the comments box
or email abstractloft@blueyonder.co.uk
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
About Abstract Art - Observations by Scottish Abstract Artist Lorraine G Huber
What is Abstract Art?
Some Personal Thoughts on Abstract Art
by Scottish Abstract Artist Lorraine G Huber
Images Above - Summer Sojourn by Lorraine G Huber
Manhattan Mindscapes - by Lorraine G Huber copyright 2006
As an artist today I take it very much for granted that I can express my emotions and inner life in what is termed an Abstract way. As artists painting in an abstract style we owe so much to the early innovators of Abstract art, the great names such as artists Wassily Kandinsky, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko. These wonderful Artists broke the boundaries in art, sometimes shockingly, by experimenting with ideas, colour, form, movement, and showing that painting did not need to be representational, or realistic or impressionistic. A painting could simply be for its own sake, to express the vitality or subtlety of colour, line or form as in Kandisky’s lyrical abstractions, convey feelings moods as with abstract expressionist Mark Rothko or spirituality, power of movement and texture as we have come to recognise by the action paintings or drip paintings of Jackson Pollock.
We see many works of art today that we instantly recognise as being abstract or non representational. Some contemporary artists like to use geometric forms such as circles and triangles in their work, others like myself work from an internal perspective, trying to express what is inside the core of their being, their spirit or emotions. Abstract art can be a very powerful medium for touching the heart of the viewer, often we don’t always know why a piece of abstract art can move us, at least we can’t express it verbally. Sometimes it is the interplay of colours and form that arrests our senses and we can look at the same painting each day and always see something new and alive that excites me and drives me as a painter. As an Abstract artist myself, I love to look at earlier Abstract artists and always find something I hadn’t seen when looking at a work again. I particularly love Kandinsky’s work as they are so full of vitality, colour and lyricism, I know a lot of his early abstractions were influenced by music and his compositions are more complex than we first realise and intricately worked out along the lines of a symphony.
In contrast I remember as a young student visiting the Tate Gallery in London and standing in front of 2 huge works by Mark Rothko one canvas mainly black and the other mainly red, I was just learning then what it meant to be an artist and was very new to abstract art. I must admit that I was baffled by what I was seeing before my eyes, just colour on colour and very sombre and dark. At the time I did not like them, and felt almost angry, thinking that anyone could do that. As the years have passed I look at Rothko’s work with deeper insight and have lived a bit more; I find it intensely moving and powerfully evocative. I find it so sad that Rothko himself took his own life, as he felt that he had expressed himself emotionally and spiritually and was at a loss to know where to go with his creativity. I feel that if he had lived today that his creativity would have known no bounds, as it is due to some of these great artists that we as artists can freely express our ideas and emotions in such an abstract way.
Abstract art is not the easy path to take, sometimes it means grappling with deep thoughts and emotions and it can be quite draining painting an abstract work that has been an intensely personal journey. My own training in fine arts tended to lead me initially towards being representational or impressionistic, but as I experience the highs and the lows of living I find that I cannot go back to being purely representational, my eye has changed, I look at the world and all the complexities of life in an abstract way. I find it exciting exploring, experimenting with new ideas, new media, colour, form, and texture, things don’t always work and there are real frustrations but when it does you can look at your work and feel, yes, that is conveying something from inside me that is true! I see my work as Journey through Life.
I remember some words by Walt Whitman:
“I sound my barbaric Yawp from the rooftops of the world”! In my own work I am trying to do that daily, let out that essential voice within, I hope that some of these rambling thoughts make sense to you, please let me know if you share any of the same sentiments or even disagree strongly, I like a good heated debate, an exchange of ideas. Email me: abstractloft@blueyonder.co.uk
Thank you for reading these thoughts on Abstract art and I hope that you also enjoy looking at my work and even better for me, buying it,
Lorraine G Huber
Some Abstract Expressionist Artists To Explore Are:
Jackson Pollock (action painter)
Joan Miro
Mark Rothko (colour field painter)
Hans Hoffman
Clyford Still
Philip Guston
Jack Jefferson
Barnet Newman
Richard Diebenkorn
...to name but a few, please add you own!
These are some of the movements within Abstract art to further research
Cubism
Prominent Artists:
Pablo Picasso
George Braque
Expressionism
Prominent Artists:
Mark Rothko
Jackson Pollock
Neoplasticism
Prominent Artists
Piet Mondrian
We see many works of art today that we instantly recognise as being abstract or non representational. Some contemporary artists like to use geometric forms such as circles and triangles in their work, others like myself work from an internal perspective, trying to express what is inside the core of their being, their spirit or emotions. Abstract art can be a very powerful medium for touching the heart of the viewer, often we don’t always know why a piece of abstract art can move us, at least we can’t express it verbally. Sometimes it is the interplay of colours and form that arrests our senses and we can look at the same painting each day and always see something new and alive that excites me and drives me as a painter. As an Abstract artist myself, I love to look at earlier Abstract artists and always find something I hadn’t seen when looking at a work again. I particularly love Kandinsky’s work as they are so full of vitality, colour and lyricism, I know a lot of his early abstractions were influenced by music and his compositions are more complex than we first realise and intricately worked out along the lines of a symphony.
In contrast I remember as a young student visiting the Tate Gallery in London and standing in front of 2 huge works by Mark Rothko one canvas mainly black and the other mainly red, I was just learning then what it meant to be an artist and was very new to abstract art. I must admit that I was baffled by what I was seeing before my eyes, just colour on colour and very sombre and dark. At the time I did not like them, and felt almost angry, thinking that anyone could do that. As the years have passed I look at Rothko’s work with deeper insight and have lived a bit more; I find it intensely moving and powerfully evocative. I find it so sad that Rothko himself took his own life, as he felt that he had expressed himself emotionally and spiritually and was at a loss to know where to go with his creativity. I feel that if he had lived today that his creativity would have known no bounds, as it is due to some of these great artists that we as artists can freely express our ideas and emotions in such an abstract way.
Abstract art is not the easy path to take, sometimes it means grappling with deep thoughts and emotions and it can be quite draining painting an abstract work that has been an intensely personal journey. My own training in fine arts tended to lead me initially towards being representational or impressionistic, but as I experience the highs and the lows of living I find that I cannot go back to being purely representational, my eye has changed, I look at the world and all the complexities of life in an abstract way. I find it exciting exploring, experimenting with new ideas, new media, colour, form, and texture, things don’t always work and there are real frustrations but when it does you can look at your work and feel, yes, that is conveying something from inside me that is true! I see my work as Journey through Life.
I remember some words by Walt Whitman:
“I sound my barbaric Yawp from the rooftops of the world”! In my own work I am trying to do that daily, let out that essential voice within, I hope that some of these rambling thoughts make sense to you, please let me know if you share any of the same sentiments or even disagree strongly, I like a good heated debate, an exchange of ideas. Email me: abstractloft@blueyonder.co.uk
Thank you for reading these thoughts on Abstract art and I hope that you also enjoy looking at my work and even better for me, buying it,
Lorraine G Huber
Some Abstract Expressionist Artists To Explore Are:
Jackson Pollock (action painter)
Joan Miro
Mark Rothko (colour field painter)
Hans Hoffman
Clyford Still
Philip Guston
Jack Jefferson
Barnet Newman
Richard Diebenkorn
...to name but a few, please add you own!
These are some of the movements within Abstract art to further research
Cubism
Prominent Artists:
Pablo Picasso
George Braque
Expressionism
Prominent Artists:
Mark Rothko
Jackson Pollock
Neoplasticism
Prominent Artists
Piet Mondrian
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