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Why abstract art?
I have grown to appreciate and love abstract art. As is the case with music, it can be absolute or programmatic. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is a composition from imagination and is absolute in that it invites the listener to unambiguously derive whatever meaning they want. The sixth on the other hand is subtitled 'Pastoral' and is obviously thematic.
The work above is entitled 'Guillemot' and originated from a photograph taken at Rathlin Island. The North Atlantic was calm and the blue sea merged into a glorious blue sky. No photograph could ever surpass the experience of existing in a sublime, real moment, observing the panorama towards Islay and Jura with my own eyes and listening to the sea birds, breeze and nature in a peaceful, calm moment.
I did take a photo as a memory and it was alright, but when I downloaded it and zoomed in there was this solitary Guillemot in the distance. After some experimentation and abstracting of the original there now was an artwork with the bird taking centre stage. Can you see it?
Most of the abstract works seem more interesting to me than the reality. Although I don't assume that anyone else would necessarily agree, I do hope these surrealised, stylised and abstracted CURVEBALL artworks can fire the imagination. Perhaps I don't care too much for present day realities and want them to change! JME
