abstract palette
When I first started seeing abstract art, sometimes called bohemian then, circa 1958, I actually thought it was neat, cool, okay, interesting. By the time I was a full-time gallery denizen in the mid-60's, I was splashing a bit of paint around myself. The key is to produce something interesting and then you can sell it, I thought at the time. Well, others were doing it;
This particular piece of rather pure abstract art, I will not append the concept of expressionism here, was produced from 2002-3 as I used this plastic ex-pizza box for my palette. So this is actually an artifact, which in its final incarnaton, appears abstract, though if one looks carefully, one can imagine the brush of the artist, seeking to mix color or to obtain a particularly fresh dab of yellow .... can you see it?
I think andré breton said something similar in the manifesto de surrealisme, oui? or as Magritte said in his famous painting of a man's tobacco pipe, "This is not a pipe," thus by inference, though my photo looks like an abstract painting, it is not a painting, it is a palette.
abstract palette
When I first started seeing abstract art, sometimes called bohemian then, circa 1958, I actually thought it was neat, cool, okay, interesting. By the time I was a full-time gallery denizen in the mid-60's, I was splashing a bit of paint around myself. The key is to produce something interesting and then you can sell it, I thought at the time. Well, others were doing it;
This particular piece of rather pure abstract art, I will not append the concept of expressionism here, was produced from 2002-3 as I used this plastic ex-pizza box for my palette. So this is actually an artifact, which in its final incarnaton, appears abstract, though if one looks carefully, one can imagine the brush of the artist, seeking to mix color or to obtain a particularly fresh dab of yellow .... can you see it?
I think andré breton said something similar in the manifesto de surrealisme, oui? or as Magritte said in his famous painting of a man's tobacco pipe, "This is not a pipe," thus by inference, though my photo looks like an abstract painting, it is not a painting, it is a palette.