Well i still dont get it. What i got out of this is that every abstract painting tells a story or shows an emotional state and is completly useless without the context given by the artist. If u dont know who the artist was or when the painting was created its mostly gibberish on a canvas..they seem rather meaningless then

@@eisberg7681you get what you give with abstract art

ha....I love that. Very well put.

I'm the extreme opposite of an "introvert" - I'm an AWESOME visual Artist - (I just saw your comment and thought, WHAT)! ART is a NEBUOUS WORD, it means everything and it means nothing - to be fair to you I had not watched this video when I saw the title, "The Rules Of Abstraction" That title caused me to think, I was dealing with an ACCADAMIANAMMAZOID, trapped in an institutional maze - The only "rules" in visual Art, that I can think of are about the products one uses to create the image - for example, if one applies acrylic paint over oil paint - that would cause one's work to disintegrate or fall apart BUTT as for the creative process, NO!!!

enrique guillen I feel the same too

Me too but he did sort of lose it , some of them were horrendous. He died young didn't he? How many had he painted? It felt like it was coming to the end and that's its problem where do you go after that you've got nothing to do.

@@christoph7395 You invent a new art type...

andreasinclair OMG...Thanks = Highly Appreciated !! I love U2 !

I'm really sceptical about the whole thing personally Andrea.

@@taran333tula Me too. Although I do think Bono has gotten a wee bit stale. The Edge and the rest of the band are alright. But nothing can truly replace the glory days of the band. Maybe I just miss that. The new music _is_ ok I suppose....

6/6 is not available on some devices : These can be cellular phones, video game consoles or set-top boxes. (because of audio copyrights claims)

Indeed, Moondog & The London Saxophonic - New Amsterdam

thank you!

Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman

@@uzytkownikinternetu4885 I've always associated that song with Pollock and vice versa, strangely.

+Needle Factory Good point. All of these contemporary abstractionists seem to be copying what they were taught in college, analyzing the techniques without feeling or believing in anything. No passion.

+Howard Wiggins passion is nothing. how to master it and make it useful is everything.

their passion is expressed in their paintings

Pollock’s nicotine infused madness - same thing happened to me- but I was painting walls in a house and went nuts ….lady changed colors every other day ….

@@howtubeable Fucking stupid

itsALLartVideos if you're a purist, yes. But abstraction is a spectrum, not an on/off switch

Blayde Keel “The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I feel it's not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there is no reason.”

I think I sometimes bark too loud about the artistic use of the word "abstract." I am not a fan of Pollock but so what? People know that it takes years of interest, devotion, and practice to play the piano well but often think visual artists are just born into it and that creativity is simply messing around with paint. I suspect that in both art and music first comes interest, then comes years of what some call practice, the problem is that in reality the practice for the most gifted artists is years of playful inter-action with the medium. Pollock may have some of that but I prefer Gerhard Richter because his investigations into abstraction are erudite and playful. As for beauty the scene in the Tin Drum comes to mind, where the guy pulls the horse head out of the water and starts dumping eels out of it. The lady is puking, a guy is helping to put the eels in a sack and the kid is observing the whole thing. Is that beauty? I don't know but it is a great piece of art.

OK, first of all, Rembrandt was not an abstract painter. Recreating reality on a two-dimensional surface is not the definition of abstraction. I think you have to start at the beginning of this series and watch again, listening very carefully with an open mind. Also, look at different kinds of abstract art and expose yourself to it's myriad forms. There are videos and books (most notably the Pulitzer prize winning biography by Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh from 1989) that explain in much more detail what Pollock was doing and why. Collings briefly explains the architecture of the no.32 piece but it's usually difficult to jump right into appreciating Pollock with little or no background in understanding why it's such important art. It's OK to not like Pollock, but I feel you need to come by that conclusion from a place of knowledge. not ignorance, such as saying his work looks like "something he used to wipe his butt." You're probably too intelligent to actually believe that statement. Also, some more hard-core art history might help you. There IS a science to abstract painting, including colour relations and how the mediums interact on a chemical level, plus the science of how the human eye perceives and understands the art. Plus, you don't need to "become a physicist" to understand nature. That's just a silly statement and reveals that you couldn't possibly truly appreciate art, or nature itself for that matter. (Your teaching art scares me a little, sorry) Think of the Impressionists and Turner! They sought to understand an interpret nature in their own way and changed art history forever, without a textbook in sight. In fact, some of Turner's work is just as abstract as some art being done today. Surely you like Monet, Cezanne and Van Gogh. Contemporary abstract art is just an extension of what these artists achieved. The principles are the same.

Julia Hrivnak Fine here is the abstract genius; Gerhard Richter, his "abstract" stuff blew me away. Pollock is way over rated and andy Warhol is under rated, Richter was off the scale until he got so famous. Another example cubism. The greatest cubist painting isn't even recognized as cubism; Marcel Duchamp's Nu descendant un escalier. Here is a great abstraction from Duchamp the urinal, I like it because that object is a piece of art and I like the fact that Duchamp was taking a bit of a jab at snobs in the art world. I shouldn't have said that Pollocks work looked like something he wiped his butt with. I get frustrated because I teach Middle School art where the kids what me to show them the magic tricks, the illusion of art. They want to know how to use the materials to create art, some people in the art teaching profession want them to run before they can crawl. This idea of abstraction in art is often too pedestrian for me. Here is an example of a little side thing I did for the students. When they discovered planet nine, I couldn't make sense of where it was at so I started looking at the scale of the solar system. It was shown in exponential form, which makes no sense visually. I got a meter stick and made one AU equal to 1 millimeter that placed saturn at about 1 centimeter and the edge of the heliopause at about 10 centimeters (the farthest craft we ever sent out into space just left the heliopause). Planet nine at its perihelion is about 20 centimeters and I forget its aphelion but it is over 50 centimeters, long story short the Oort cloud starts near the other end of the meter stick and extends to the edge of the suns gravitational influence about a half block away and the nearest star to our sun is about a block away, in the parking lot. See this a visual abstraction that helps students see and in a sense it became a piece of performance art because I had so much fun acting it out. Its it art or science, I have a hard time with the distinction, weren't radio tubes beautiful Dada? Often I find that I like the artist but not the fans because they make way to much of the product with out understanding the beauty of the process. Sorry about the stupid comment about Pollock, I am sure that I would have liked to listen to him talk.

Julia Hrivnak what a fitting reply. Thank for for your insight

Off you fuck then.

Whether you like Pollock or not, you’ve got to talk about him. He opened things up, blew out the walls, put the pedal to the metal.