Painting

A Jacobson
Twist Your Mind Production
 I hate abstract art !
What is that?
Why would someone every paint like that?
Looks like my little brother painted it!
 ARE YOU ONE OF THESE PEOPLE?

If you are one

of these people
dont worry.
This
presentation
will explain it.
Hopefully you
will learn to
look at it and
gain to
appreciate
abstract art Willem de Kooning
more.
 The word abstract simply means to draw
from.
hat is ABTSRACT ART?
Abstract
artuses avisual
languageof
shape, form, color
and line to create
a composition.
Abstract art
ideas can come
from lifes
experiences.
Or things we see
in our
imaginations.
Rhythm - Robert Delaunay 1934
Lets take a look art a famous artist and how he
came to creating art like you see below.

Artist: Piet Mondrain

Composition with
Large Red Plane,
Yellow, Black, Gray,
and Blue, 1921

What do you
think inspired
this artist to
paint this?
 The Red Tree 1908, Grey Tree 1910 &
Flowering Tree 1912
ARTIST: Piet Mondrian,

The Gray Tree exemplifies Mondrian's early transition

toward abstraction, and his application of Cubist
principles to represent the landscape. The three-
dimensional tree has been reduced to lines and planes
using a limited palette of grays and black.
In Farm Near Duivendrecht, strong
lines dominate this scene of a His work transforms in 1935 to strong
farmhouse at twilight. linear lines and basic colors.
 A Simplification of the basic things we see.
Pushed by our imaginations
An exaggeration of one or more compositional elements:

L Texture
I Shape
n Form
e Color
Space Value
If You Do not Understand Abstract Art you are Normal

Since abstract
art first
appeared,
many people
had difficulty
understandin
g and
struggled to
accept it as
art because it Wassily Kandinsky was the greatest force behind
the birth of non-objective abstraction, painting
was different. Improvisation Number 10 , 1911
People were use to seeing paintings that had clear
imagery they could understand.
 Our brains our wired to learn through
association.
In order to make sense of the world
we need to connect the new
information with our past experience
or memories.
Ever look up into
Have you ever
thelooked
sky and tried
at the
to
seeclouds
things?
and found
recognizable
images?
 Simply sit back close your eyes, relax
slowly open them and just stare at the artwork.
Dont think just stare
Ask yourself what do you feel? Is it sad,
happy, agitated etc.
What colors do you see?
What shapes?
How does your eye flow over the composition?
Lets look again at some
samples of Abstract Art
No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953
Artist: Rothko
Objective & Non Objective
1. Objective artwork with recognizable
images. Based on Realism

1. Non-objective artwork with no

recognizable images- nothing realistic
 Artwork with
recognizable images.
Based on Realism
You can identify
shapes
Images are just
twisted alerted,
morphed and or
distorted.
Picasso, Head, 1960
 NON-OJECTIVE ABTRACT ART

no recognizable
subject matter
Not meant to be
anything at all.
Just basic elements of
art
Dont try to find things Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950
in the composition
Ellsworth Kelly
The Meschers
(1951)
Museum of
Modern Art, NY.
1. Fold paper
into
sections.
2. Divide
section of
the paper
into rule of
thirds.
1. Fold paper in 4
sections.
2. Divide each of the 4
sections by lightly
drawing the rule of
thirds.
3. Place most
important larger
shapes near the
intersections.
It divides the
paper into equal
sections so you
can place drawn
objects in the
right areas to
gain a better
composition.
Without using it
your work will look
unplanned and
not balanced.
Directions

1. Use geometric and

organic shapes.
2. Stay away from
singular lines that
dont connect to
make shapes.
3. Place shapes in
every third to
balance out your
composition.
4. Small, medium and
large size shapes
 Directions

DESIGN IDEAS
Tryto Use Variety: different shapes together.
Tryto Use Unity: Similar shapes used
together.
Run shapes off the edge of the paper.
Overlap shapes
Dont make it too simple-you will have too
many large shapes to shape.
Dont go crazy busy with overlapping or
using too many shapes. Too difficult to shade.