Abstract painting explained – Part 4

Art in general is representational or abstract, representational pictures are pictures which you can know what it means from a look at like a picture in your kid’s story an abstract painting is the one where you can’t know what it means instantly.

If we want to define Abstract Art we can say it’s abstracting everything that surrounds from its real form to a new form using colours, shapes & your imagination to describe it.

Abstract art is a high level painting technique which depends on artist’s deep thinking and deepest feelings and also depends on the viewer’s understanding to what the painting say.

“We have to accustom the eye to listen to the painting” Paul Kelly.

There were abstract movements established like: Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism, Neoplasticism, Dadaism, Surrealism..etc. then in the 20th century art Abstract Expressionism was established , and this one was interested in not only the paint but how it’s painted , the material that was used in the painting from colours, papers, toolsetc. which means the overall painting process. Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956), Arshile Gorky (Armenian-American, 1904-1948), Franz Kline (American, 1910-1962), Mark Rothko (Russian-American, 1903-1970) are names that must be mentioned when talking about abstract art of this move.

A very well known example nowadays for abstract art are patterns created by graphic designers, most of the patterns are collection of colours and shapes forming a beautiful piece of art that can be repeated to create a prettier background for cloth, wall, …etc.

How to paint it?

The truth is that you have no rules to follow for painting such art, Which is the good thing about it yet a bad thing, it’s good to have no rules bounding you from doing what you want but the bad thing is that you have nothing to follow but your mind, creativity and imagination. Those are the only tools that will guide you, A one piece of advice you can take is reading more about this art and seeing other painters work and what their pictures means that will help you a lot in your path to being professional abstract art painter. So you can just get a piece of paper and brush and start to output everything you have. But always remember is as easy as it may seems as hard as it is, As abstract art is considered one of the most difficult arts as it requires a lot of concentration and a high sense of colours& shapes mixing to get to your point.

A Look at the Various Fantasy Artwork Available

Art of imagination is also known as the Fantasy art. Therefore this art is called as the universal language of images and focus around unseen forces and life mystery. It is considered that fantasy art has been developing from African magic, Greek mythology, Chinese folklore and other scared traditions.

Observation of the real word and imagination power gives birth to the fantasy art. Generally fantasy paintings consist of the unreal, fantastic, wild thinker fantasy, capricious and dreamy paintings. Usually dreamers as well as imaginative artist practice for this art.

Paintings of the Dutch artist were the mile stone paintings and none other paintings were in comparison with them. The most famous paintings of this painter are a triptych of the Garden of Eden and The garden of Earthy delight. In the painting of triptych of the Garden of Eden painter showed some nude people romping around a giant fruit. Painter has shown sumptuous naked enigmatic by the appeal of world of the flesh.

In the paintings of interpretation of garden painter illustrated origin sin of Adam and Eve designed for hell. This painting is blend of the innocence and haunting poetic beauty. After this during 20th century became more expanded and have been accepted as legal style of art making. Because of modernization and invention of photograph in around 18th century gave rise to the fantasy art work. But during this century realistic representational art starts to lose its direction as well as purpose.

From the classic Roman time realistic and representational art was on the top in Western paintings. Some of the artist during developments process came with sophisticated a painting technique that reduces the picture frame with accurate perspective. But after invention of the photography people left with the portraits and paintings to store their memories. This invention of the photography challenge the artistic more different ways for their fantasy and artwork.

This turned peoples towards different types of styles in the paintings like abstraction, expressionism, cubism, surrealism and fantasy. This gave greater meaning as well as purpose to their art. After this artist were trying to paint unseen and imaginary images. This results in to the paintings into small brush strokes, or dots of the colors. After these artists gets inspired with new science theories of light particles, atoms along with some unseen elements that all were the part of universe.

Many artists were interested in displaying emotions along with working of paint strokes, color expressions, and painting structures of art. These paintings are no more real looking but were different and more meaningful. This work was related to the new science psychologies along with Asian and African artwork. After this many artists try to discover the inner side of the world that is called as unconscious. This was real but invisible. But these pictures were matching the dreamy images. This art became the fantasy art. This way the fantasy art gave the new vision in the world of art.