الأحد، 11 ديسمبر 2016

How To Choose Meaningful Abstract Paintings For Your Home

By Karen Russell


Art has remained important because it is one way to chronicle the lives of people living throughout history. While science and its facets are very important to our survival, art has remained to be the reason why we survive. It gives life meaning and without this meaning, there really is no point of surviving.

Famous painting and the artistic movement started getting famous in Europe and started to be carried out in America. While realism and symbolism are very anatomy based artistic movements, abstract painting started to catch on. One interesting thing about LA abstract paintings is how they just keep evolving throughout time.

What makes an abstract piece stand out from among others is composition. This is true to all types of art, but can be quite difficult to determine in this case, technically speaking. Not only does its aesthetic rely on color choice but also on so many unsuspected shapes and concepts.

Pablo Picasso was a very famous painter because of the political nature of his abstractions. While it had its own visual identity, it also had a political stand point. The most famous one would be the Guernica. This one was about the bombing that happened during the Spanish Civil War. The subject would be the victims of war during these times.

Take a Picasso, for example. One of his greatest and most famous works is the Guernica. This is one way of him relaying his political opinions during the time of war. Specifically, this was about the victims of the bombing by the Nazi that occurred at the civil war in Spain. The shapes and even facial expressions perfectly portrayed the grief and loss that was evident during that point in Spanish history.

Sure a 10 year old can do it, but they would not be able to on the original scale of the piece, much more with its political meaning. Contemporary artists best flourish in the cities these days. Technology and the invention of different materials have allowed people to come up with new and different mediums to play with.

As a buyer choose something with a good story, apart from what strikes a cord in your head or heart. Buy the weird and unusual ones if it seems fit for your personality and go all out. Be careful with what you buy though, while there are installations and paintings that can cost a lot, they can still be made by people who are merely doing it for the shock factor.

It does not make sense that a painting is considered phenomenal based on who made it and not how it was made and how much effort and heart was given to it. This does not only extend to painted pieces but also to sculptures and installations. These contemporary pieces are more often than not lazy and pretentious.

Let us face it, it makes you question if there really is still some cultural significance to what is being displayed. This is not to say that all abstracts are random and just drips of paint and a composition of shapes. You can check out a Pollock piece and realize that the intricacies of its fractals and patterns create a mathematical pattern. Then again looking at art technically is a matter of study. It takes experience and genuine interest to actually see what is good and what is pretentious.




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