Wait youll see why they took me by surprise. People use abstraction in maths and science if you think they are good maybe youd see how that might translate. Thing is once you realise things seem a bit pointless but justified in there inertia somehow. do you like the sky or feel indifferent about it?

But if something smells bad, I'm not gonna eat it, no matter how many people tell me that how it tastes wasn't the chef's point.

I took an MoMA online course on abstract expressionists. We had the opportunity to optionally submit assignments in the style of the artist being studied. I can honestly say, it was then that I saw the light and was able to appreciate Rothko, Barnet Newman and Pollock. I submitted an assignment in the style of Barnet Newman. I had experience in painting abstract. I couldn’t imagine that regardless, to materialize a feeling in Newman’s zip style will represent a very tough challenge.

for me the difference is between seeing it cooking on tv and actually smelling it ...

@@VfletchS or the looks of it lol

Nothing to understand about that olds men painting

A kid could do that

He could blather on about anything , and he does . Good enough for a bored housewife .

He does all right, and he is sympathetic to the artists he meets.

kind of elitist art, seems to me. But I'm a novice

Shows you not a thinker . Closed minded idiot

+Louise Boucher No, music is not "as personal as your own toothbrush." Music is composed with a specific purpose and creates a specific MOOD. Abstract art usually (not always) fails at creating a specific mood. Modern art in general tries to "make a point" or make a social commentary, always cerebral, not emotional. Music (at least good music) creates a mood and a feeling. So, abstract art is not comparable to music.

+Louise Boucher I am someone who really doesn,t understand or see any quality in this some people call Art.Is there a secret code or something to look for when you look at this stuff. If there is something like a code or some magical potion i can get from somewhere to see something good in this stuff. Maybe some educational institution that I can do a course in to get it.

+Louise Boucher hmm. so I should feel it in my soul My soul is not as well developed as yours. I look at Rembrandts ,Rubens and I really feel something very special and can look at it in amazement for hours. I look at say a Pollack and I see a mess. Or A piece of shit splattered on the wall and I see crap. I have a lot of work to do on myself to elevate to a higher level of development in appreciation of modern Art. Mathew Collins simply doesn,t work for me. If you can direct me to a higher order of understanding please help me.

+Louise Boucher Louise when I went to high school Pollack was all the rage in Australia. I thought he was great after listening to academics sell his Art to me. I have been a painter for over 20 yrs and realized that Art relying on accidents and not much reference to past masters teachings is basically a gimmick, fraudulent and not honest. Very little skill involved. Put a Pollack next to a Rembrandt and you may understand. I have seen Rembrandt's at famous Art museums and am mesmerized by a whole range of quality. In paint application, color mixing ,textures, paint stroke application,focus, honesty, drawing, lighting, composition, color relationships, understanding of color contrasts, tone variations etc. I look at a Pollock today and I see a swirl of paint thrown around in a drunken stupor I look at a Picasso and I see.poor understanding of Art expression and only gimmick. I visit Modern Art Galleries and see very little which inspires me to continue wanting to develop my professional desire of accomplishing works at a high standard. Doing Art without an end goal of accomplishment is futile. Saying you should feel the Artwork in the contemporary sense is a bit like saying if you don,t get it something is wrong with you. You gotta get it to fit in with the new dominant way of thinking in the Contemporary Art culture. If you don,t get it something is the matter with you. That I am afraid is why Art has very few followers by mainstream public support. It is sad because most people don,t like it and see it as a novelty for a small exclusive club of believers I would much rather hang on to my individualism and stick with what I know and like rather than follow a mob following a false Art religion which has no future or historical life. Thanks for your responses..

It's really not a matter of "soul" or of "gimmicks", but it is a matter of sensibility. It's a matter of realizing that, no matter how beautiful a naturalistic painting looks, it is still just paint on a flat surface. Let's see what else we can do with that paint. Let's see what we else can do with that surface. We've been using it to replicate what our eyes see, can we use it for something else? Do our eyes really see the world in the same way we construct a naturalistic painting? Can you actually put a 3D object into a 2D surface? A painting of a pipe is not a pipe, but is a painting of a red triangle a red triangle? If a canvas is an object sharing the same space as me, how does my space interact with the space of the painting? Are they really different spaces? None of my favorite classic artists posed these kinds of questions to me as clearly and urgently as the modernists, and I can honestly say my figurative work has only gotten stronger after I started studying abstraction.

Art made by Artificial Intelligence is quite an odd one..or is it "art"?!

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Old men's painting is total garbage . Just inventing shit in his head

Look like a kid painted that

@@Moodboard39 kid paint doesn't mean bad. I dont care good painting or bad one coz i didnt do it. I dont care expensive or cheap coz i dont buy them. Even criticizing other's work, it doesnt make your work great.

@@TheMomography Yea, of course not ... They just kids lol the point his painting total garbage 🗑️

Paint on 5:24 pure garbage

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What's the struggle ? do you know what abstract art means ????? Or you think it has to be an actual canvas with color or paint on it