Abstraction Thread

[Anonymous No.3586328]

Am I the only one who dares to go abstract here?

[Anonymous No.3586342]

>>3586328
Apparently I am but I'm new so wtf do I know

[Anonymous No.3586358]

>>3586328
is this yours? it's nice. the colors are very comforting.

[Anonymous No.3586400]

>>3586358
Thank you haha
I think people like it a lot

[Anonymous No.3586402]

>>3586342
I like it. Is it digital art? It lioks like a back of a kimono

[Anonymous No.3586404]

>>3586400
Do u do shading? I need help.

[Anonymous No.3586405]

>>3586328
generally if it represents something then it's not an abstract, for example, that's a mountain, so it's not abstract.

[Anonymous No.3586406]

>>3586402
It is my first attempt at drawing, I tried drawing the archangel metatron with his 72 wings. I'll give u the only good pic of him I have ever seen.

[Anonymous No.3586418]

>>3586406
Are you celeste23forever? I see watermark

Its nice. Very strong colors. If you played with the line colors it would add to luminosity and vibrancy of the drawing

[Anonymous No.3586433]

>>3586418
No im not, I'm just some autist who only drew one thing, and that's the metatron with black robes I posted above.

[Anonymous No.3586436]

>>3586433 - me
>>3586406 - not mine
>>3586342 - mine

[Anonymous No.3586452]

We are not allowed to mingle with the others.

[Anonymous No.3586455]

>>3586452
This makes me feel like Jim crows law is in effect.

[Anonymous No.3586480]

>>3586455
No sir Boss, dem Loomis laws der to help us ignorant folk froms getting in trouble.

[Anonymous No.3586487]

>>3586480
I have a meme...

[Anonymous No.3586653]

>>3586452
Your art reminds me of franz kline little bit. Look him up

[Anonymous No.3586709]

>>3586653
ya, I do like him, I got into Motherwell first though. I always forget which one followed the other.

[Anonymous No.3586712]

A painting of mine.

[Anonymous No.3586716]

>>3586712
That's very nice! I like it. It appears to depict a seaweed in water

[Anonymous No.3586751]

>>3586716
It's a very special painting. Thank you for the kind feedback.

[Anonymous No.3586756]

Here is another painting.

[Anonymous No.3586810]

I'm new here. Are the boards slow? I'll keep bumping the thread every hour or so with paintings until I run out or pieces.

[Anonymous No.3586831]

>>3586810
yeah board is slow as shit. An unbumped thread takes like 3 days to die.

[Anonymous No.3586843]

>>3586756
Too dark for my taste. Try using more expensive paint and use a combination of pure a and mixed colors.

>>3586810
Okay please do

>>3586831
Among all your works i like this one more

[Anonymous No.3586872]

>>3586843
The last one isn't mine. I just got myself some oil pastels about two weeks ago and have been practicing with them every day. I'm not really sure how to go about blending colors effectively without messing up the painting. New piece as well.

[Anonymous No.3586873]

>>3586328
Looks like a valley of ice cream with two scoops looming above

[Anonymous No.3586886]

>>3586872
Looks like Black Forest cake

[Anonymous No.3586892]

>>3586886
Are you the same anon who thinks the OP looks like ice cream? Are you high or something? You seem to perceive a lot of food right now.

[Anonymous No.3586897]

>>3586328
It looks like shit. Why waste time studying when you can just put paint everywhere like a mindless retard.
NGMI

[Anonymous No.3586904]

[Anonymous No.3586944]

>>3586904
I like it.

Same oilanon posting more work.

[Anonymous No.3586946]

>>3586328
first thing that came to mind:

>*Trump voice*
>this is a MESS!

[Anonymous No.3587018]

>>3586944
Last piece until I paint more. This one was just a doodle paint.

[Anonymous No.3587128]

>>3587018
You need a better camera with better lighting. It comes out too dark and muddy

[Anonymous No.3587133]

>>3587018
>>3587128


----> >>3587127

[Anonymous No.3587138]

>>3586328
I found this plate that was sprayed with paint accidentally over a few months and it created an art piece that is far better than many abstract art painters these days.

[Anonymous No.3587154]

>>3587138
It sucks imo

[Anonymous No.3587195]

>>3587138
If you really think that you dont understand abstract art or you have really low standards or both

[Anonymous No.3587223]

>>3587138
better if you look at it as a kind of landscape then as abstract, bit like the early stages of many a concept art piece

[Anonymous No.3587233]

>>3587223
OP pic is a landscape.
what are you on about?

[Anonymous No.3587245]

>>3587233
How do you know its a landscape? It could be an abstract depiction of uncertainty principle

[Anonymous No.3587576]

>>3586328
Nice work.

[Anonymous No.3587578]

>>3586342
Keep posting, your work is some of the best I've seen here in ages. Leave your IG info or whatever if you want.

[Anonymous No.3587611]

>>3587576
Thanks. What do you like about it?

[Anonymous No.3588919]

God Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi

based on the soundtrack from Thin Red Line by Hans Zimmer

[Anonymous No.3589028]

>>3588919
revised

[Anonymous No.3589033]

I only lile manga art.
All other art is crap.
Keep your crap off this board.

[Anonymous No.3589038]

>>3589033
No.

[Anonymous No.3589068]

>>3588919
You just like it because he's a mongoloid

[Anonymous No.3589074]

>>3589068
Who is a mongoloid?

[Anonymous No.3589080]

>>3589028
i prefer the unrevised version, there's some prettier colour relationships in there and the overall composition is more open and airy while the revised version had less of a sense of space and is getting a little bit patterny with all those horizontal strokes adding up

[Anonymous No.3589096]

>>3589080
I think the colors in unrevised version was too screechy and discordant. I prefer the revised version because the colors are harmonious

[Anonymous No.3589179]

>>3589028
you should try limiting your color palate, and letting things dry.. its getting muddy in some places.

[Anonymous No.3589181]

>>3589179
Where do you see mud? Isnt it called colors mixing? That's the whole point of painting

[Anonymous No.3589515]

>>3587138
Your plate is going to make it, best thing in the thread so far.

[Anonymous No.3589542]

>>3589515
What an ignorant troll

[Anonymous No.3589680]

>>3589542
Bet I've sold more abstract art than you, spazmondo.

[Anonymous No.3589951]

>>3589680
Uh huh
You have awful taste
Maybe your art appeals to people with equally bad taste

[Anonymous No.3590515]

>>3589951
muh taste.
I bet you love Rothko, too.

[Anonymous No.3590526]

abstract is relax

[Anonymous No.3590527]

[Anonymous No.3590540]

>>3586405
Way to ruin the vibes b

[Anonymous No.3590544]

[Anonymous No.3590546]

[Anonymous No.3590547]

[Anonymous No.3590548]

[Anonymous No.3590872]

>>3590547
>>3590548
>>3590544
Pretty nice but you are ideologically distorted against me

[Anonymous No.3592459]

Heartbeat III
Oil pastel on gessoed paper, 24 x 18 inches

[Anonymous No.3592460]

Heartbeat IV
Oil pastel on gessoed paper, 24 x 18 inches

[Anonymous No.3592472]

[Anonymous No.3592473]

[Anonymous No.3592595]

>>3592472
I dont like the colors in this one which lack clarity. I like the fact that it is experimental.
>>3592473
I like the graphic quality of this drawing but its not quite experimental as the first one. Not sure which is my favorite but it seems like this one is more complete and finished because it has clarity

[Anonymous No.3592944]

Divine Light

[Anonymous No.3593351]

>>3592595
I really appreciate your critique, it is hard to find a person to provide such insight here without just calling me garbage. I do have lots of trouble with color, black ink has always felt more natural for me.

[Anonymous No.3594019]

>>3593351
Thanks. Never give up

[Anonymous No.3594023]

[Anonymous No.3594175]

>>3590872
huh?

[Anonymous No.3594796]

>>3592944
This is absolutely beautiful.

[Anonymous No.3595133]

>>3594796
Thank you haha

[Anonymous No.3595269]

>>3594796
>>3595133

Stop samefagging you goddamn autist. If you want to masturbate do it in your room, not on this board. Also yes Chunbum, abstract art is perfect for you because the only people who do it are hacks who can't draw or paint.

[Anonymous No.3595303]

Here's an unfinished abstraction from me. I'm new to painting.

[Anonymous No.3595312]

>>3595303
very 1st year art school

[Anonymous No.3596193]

i wanted to paint a blue house but i got angry and squirted black directly on the canvas

>>3590547
is that tin foil

>>3586452
i like it, minus 100 points for digital

[Anonymous No.3596388]

made an abstract

>>3592472
I'd like a window like this
>>3586342
cool concept
>>3590526
nice touch gold flakes

[Anonymous No.3596421]

>>3596193
works pretty well, very gestural, it'd need to be big though

[Anonymous No.3596590]

>>3586328

[Anonymous No.3596592]

>>3596590

[Anonymous No.3596593]

>>3596592

[Anonymous No.3596594]

>>3596593

[Anonymous No.3596601]

>>3596594

[Anonymous No.3596611]

>>3595269
Leave if you won't contribute.

I'll post a new piece soon.

[Anonymous No.3596692]

Okay guys you have to cool it with the black paint. Black paint right out of the tube is dominating. and it's giving a lot of the paintings in this thread the same really dark tone, and all kinda look the same.

[Anonymous No.3596698]

>>3596692
stfu

[Anonymous No.3596755]

>>3596698
No critique on the critique board eh?

[Anonymous No.3596788]

>>3596755
stfu

[Anonymous No.3597142]

>>3596611
This dude is not me

How did he get (you)s?

[Anonymous No.3597534]

>>3586328
i am. when i'm painting its the only thing i can do actually. it just requires feeling and the right amount of colours and chaos.

[Anonymous No.3597584]

>>3586831
wack.

[Anonymous No.3597676]

>>3586328
On occasion

[Anonymous No.3598154]

>>3596193
it's variegated gold leaf

[Anonymous No.3599880]

Abstract piece I work on here and there

[Anonymous No.3600440]

>>3597534
I love this one. Very nice

>>3598154
This one is also nice

>>3599880
Its pretty cool. Thanks for sharing

[Anonymous No.3600510]

>>3587611
Composition, color, balance, overall German expressionistic feeling. It has an alien feeling to it as well.

[Anonymous No.3600627]

[Anonymous No.3600629]

>>3600627
the "filing cabinet"

[Anonymous No.3601874]

is /ic/ into generative art at all?

[Anonymous No.3603185]

>>3595303

olga rozanova inspired?

[Anonymous No.3603210]

>>3586843
>Among all your works i like this one more
me too tbphwyf. Can't wait to finish it.

[Anonymous No.3603229]

>>3586831
>>3603210
please stop posting non-abstract work. every thread has an image-limit.

[Anonymous No.3603258]

My first attempt on an abstract drawing I did a few weeks ago. Tried to make it simple as possible

[Anonymous No.3603284]

>>3603229
If this thread makes it to 150 images I'll half-heartedly apologize.

[Anonymous No.3603319]

>>3603284
wow thanks asshole

[Anonymous No.3605224]

>>3603210
>>3603284
look at this asshole spamming his shit in an "abstract" thread.
your paintings may be grotesque and awful, but they are definitely not abstract. can you just stay the fuck out of these threads with your "bozo tbphwyf wabi sabi haha HAHAHAHAHAHA" -- shit for once???? Can you??

[Anonymous No.3605261]

I feel like Im missing something here

[Anonymous No.3606329]

>>3605261
Make the white ribbons glisten in metallic reflection

[Anonymous No.3606366]

>>3586328
Daily reminder that abstract art is what happens when an artist decides it's just too hard to actually draw shit.

[Anonymous No.3606402]

>>3606366
I draw realism but I disagree. realism evokes emotional response through associations the viewer gets from the picture. same thing with abstract, but there are less concepts and as a result the associations can be more free, obscure and subtle. If you are trying to convey a very obscure feel, it can be easier and more precise to do so with only color and form, instead of a scene with figures etc.

[Anonymous No.3606409]

>>3605261
yeah, like this anon said >>3606329, something has to be done, they feel rather blank

[Anonymous No.3606414]

>>3605261
I think this would look way better without the paper strips

[Anonymous No.3606427]

>>3603319
Suicide is painless
>>3605224
Was just leaving a comment m8. What do we got 153 more image slots available? This thread gonna still be around in 4 months or whenever the rate is that it would be filled?
>your paintings may be grotesque and awful, but they are definitely not abstract.
never said they were. the one with colors and shit on it is non objective.
>can you just stay the fuck out of these threads with your "bozo tbphwyf wabi sabi haha HAHAHAHAHAHA" -- shit for once???? Can you??
Why would I? Look at how much of it upsets (you). That's worth it by itself. Now there is yet another image spot being taken up by a shitty meme that could have been taken up by a shitty abstract painting. And it's because of (you) m8.

[Anonymous No.3606446]

>>3606427
tits or gtfo jimmy

[Anonymous No.3606459]

>>3586328
That's really good OP. You could be Hitler someday.

[Anonymous No.3606467]

Yall need to pay more attention to proportion, shape language, tension, noise and rest - all the different ways you can create contrast and navigating those, drawing something with a cohesive harmonious form language.

[Anonymous No.3606468]

>>3606467
Im just gonna post a bunch of things that might be of interest

[Anonymous No.3606469]

>>3606468

[Anonymous No.3606470]

>>3606469

[Anonymous No.3606471]

>>3606470

[Anonymous No.3606473]

>>3606471

[Anonymous No.3606474]

>>3606473

[Anonymous No.3606476]

>>3606474

[Anonymous No.3606478]

>>3606476

[Anonymous No.3606480]

>>3606478

[Anonymous No.3606482]

>>3606480

[Anonymous No.3606484]

>>3606482

[Anonymous No.3606488]

>>3606446
I can't find any pictures of my tits but here's a picture of my back from the time I got attempted mugged and elbowed one guy in the mouth and knocked a bunch of his teeth out. Knocked his buddy out with the other elbow too, but that was to the side of the head into a car.

Whole arm ended up getting super infected within 24 hours though. Ended up costing thousands in goddamn medical bills because America is home of the free. They put like 15 inches of gauze inside my elbow and it was like a magic trick when they pulled it out.

Not sure what your request this has to with this thread though. Seems super off topic and rude.

[Anonymous No.3606536]

[Anonymous No.3606655]

[Anonymous No.3606677]

why so many figuratives in an abstract thread?
anyway, this is some of the shit i do. i work mostly with technical repesentations, graphics and shit, sometimes handdrawing, sometimes digital and sometimes i go 3D stretching elastic canvas over the frames, tensioning from the back with different objects and painting it all with metallic laquers.

[Anonymous No.3606682]

>>3606677
here some drawings and a couple of paintings exploring technical representations of forces, fluxes and tensions, which are the things that i dig.

[Anonymous No.3606685]

>>3606682
These are very very nice. Wonderful

[Anonymous No.3606883]

[Anonymous No.3606887]

>>3606682
i love the texture of the second from the left. i want to wear a coat with that texture

[Anonymous No.3607062]

>>3586328
>dares to go abstract
aka throwing paint at a canvas randomly with no design

[Anonymous No.3607089]

>>3607062
Dude

[Anonymous No.3607092]

>>3607062
thats non objective tho

[Anonymous No.3607124]

>>3605261
>>3606467

Thanks contrast bro, I developed my idea further but I feel like I have to redevelop this from the beginning to get somewhere further

[containercore !o3a0NktvbA No.3607257]

I do but I don't post much of it.

[Anonymous No.3607335]

>>3606685
thanks. i also do some figurative drawings, paintings and sculptures, i like a lot to draw people on the street, but i feel that abstract art is more challenging to me, and far more intriguing than figurative art.
a matter of personal taste, of course.

>>3606887
that texture is an exploration on graphical representation of fluxes in weather and other technical stuff.

[Anonymous No.3607344]

>>3607257
i like that. those grey halos are part of the work or reflections on the glass/paper?

[containercore !o3a0NktvbA No.3607347]

>>3607344
It's 100% digital.

[Anonymous No.3607360]

>>3607092
OP's wasted canvas doesn't have any desgin or thought put into it. Therefore it's not art. I think he's just trolling
>dares to go abstract
>post that shit

[Anonymous No.3607632]

this is a good thread!

>>3607335
really liking this stuff man. I want to make stuff of random things too.

did this with pastels, I usually draw realistic but would say this counts as abstract.

[Anonymous No.3607642]

>>3607360
>OP's wasted canvas doesn't have any desgin or thought put into it.
It clearly does tho
>Therefore it's not art.
anything can be art.

[Anonymous No.3607730]

>>3607632
>really liking this stuff
thanks again! here some more abstracts, always playing with the schematic/technical stuff, mixed with some gestual treatment of the material.

i take elements from geographical, weather or finantial graphics and i use them to (kind of) make graphics of my emotional and thought processes. it may sound pretentious but i'm only playing and having fun with it.

i find really fascinating all kind of mixtures between visual languages, but since i work all day in front of a computer, when i do art i tend to not use digital resources, or only as a sketchboard to try color combinations, forms, etc, that i later carry to paper or canvas.

>>3607632
>did this with pastels,
beautiful.

[Anonymous No.3607764]

>>3607730
I think it's very difficult to mix concepts in an artistic manner without it sounding pretentious when you explain it. Being aware of it, makes it totally okay imo. I like the concept of visual languages, inspiring.

pic related is my first pastels did two weeks ago, strangely similar to one of yours!

[Anonymous No.3607779]

>>3607764
im sorry but this looks like an infected zit on my ass

[Anonymous No.3607795]

>>3607779
No problem, It was totally random trying out pastels, posted because it was remarkably similar to one of the other guys pics. His picture was of an entirely different aesthetic quality, though.

[Anonymous No.3607807]

>>3607764
>without it sounding pretentious
i know, but i do not care too much for that. i don´t consider it more pretentious than trying to imitate reality, but to each it's own, i guess.
to me, abstraction is more like an adventure for the mind than for the skills in capturing a skin tone or a certain kind of shadow. not to deny the excellence of figurative painting, though. and there are some artists that i think are all the time playing with the limits of that, and it's amazing. check some turner, for example.

[Anonymous No.3607814]

>>3607807
or this awesome degas, it's at the museo de bellas artes de buenos aires.
it's clearly an almost abstract composition, full of overlapping geometrical figures and strongly remarked straight lines and angles. with not much care about anatomical correction or shadows.
if you squint your eyes a bit you can clearly see the geometrical composition.

in the end, what mondrian did was nothing more than stripping the excess of simbolism of a apinting like this, taking the minimalist view to an extreme.
as i said, an adventure for the mind

[Anonymous No.3607818]

>>3607807
Are you saying some abstract art is only conceptual and not meant to be aesthetic in it's expression (form, color etc)?

Your stuff is aesthetic in it's expression and I think that takes skill in terms of a sense of form and color no matter if it is realism or abstract. Unless it's photo copying... that takes no sense of aesthetics, only an eye for detail.

[Anonymous No.3607831]

>>3607818
>not meant to be aesthetic in it's expression (form, color etc)
wellll.... some abstract art is like that, not all of it, and as you say, tends to fall into conceptual art.
and i tend to like abstract expressionism more than some variations that don't rely so much on the technical skills and habilities.

that said, i enjoy some conceptual art a lot, i think there are amazing visual and intellectual creators doing amazing things, and many times they don't know how to grab a pencil. of course there are lots of crappy conceptual "artists", as much as figurative or abstract ones.

[Anonymous No.3607833]

>>3607814
I know nothing about this, but I think I know what Mondrian was doing, and I am trying to apply that to this degas.

[Anonymous No.3607842]

>>3607833
>I know nothing about this
i'm far from being an expert, but i've always been interested in art and art history, and i think art history is fundamental and crucial to understand and appreciate all forms of art.
you can find (or get close to) the real motivations that lay under every work of art, from religious medieval manuscripts to conceptual video installations, from impressionism to petrogliphs in caverns. and in that way you can reaaly see what the artist was doing, the motivations, what the painting mean in that special place and time context.

take for example this work of mondrian. if you don't know nothing of it you can consider it just a bunch of lines, boring and with no skills showing..
but for it's time was a revolution, and it was talking about a revolutionary kind of music. both the visuals and the music were at that time as revolting as punk or industrial rock were later.

[Anonymous No.3607872]

>>3607842
Yeah, I'm pretty new to art so I don't have a lot of experience with different forms of communication. I guess that is kind of the thing right? some art is concept, some art is composing forms and color, some art is evoking association and emotion through scenery... Most works probably use many categories. But I can't say I understand that Mondrian at all, and it's probably because I have no frame of reference. I can get the simple squares, but this is too complicated.

[Anonymous No.3607941]

I painted this today. I think it's done, but i'd like some outside opinions on it.

[Anonymous No.3607957]

>>3607941
It's nice monochrome painting. Look into dansaekhwa movement by Korean artists such as Ufan Lee

[Anonymous No.3607965]

>>3607941
is it supposed to be a penis?

[Anonymous No.3607968]

>>3586872
perfect example of good concept terrible execution

[Anonymous No.3608032]

>>3607965
Nope, but now that i see it, it's all it will ever be to me. fuck.

[Anonymous No.3608510]

>>3607872
>probably because I have no frame of reference.
probably, that's what i'm talking about.
and is not that you'll love his art once you know his context, but you'll likely understand it, and appreciate all the investigative and intellectual work that lead mondrian to do it.
and also recognize the size of the balls that an artist that was an exceptional figurative painter (check his early work, you'll be surprised) has to show to embark in an extreme abstract adventure, at the time he did it.

[Anonymous No.3609058]

Revised

[Anonymous No.3609094]

>>3608510
Understanding the artists motivation and cultural context is one thing, but I mean, that mondrian painting has an aesthetic message to it, right? It's not all concepts and context?

[Anonymous No.3609431]

>>3606467
First one I like in this thread. This is good stuff!

[Anonymous No.3609587]

Revised

[Anonymous No.3609683]

>>3609587
How about you post when it's done? In a figurative thread, that is.

[Anonymous No.3609704]

>>3609683
Okay. You hurt my abstract feelings

[Anonymous No.3609901]

>>3609094
>that mondrian painting has an aesthetic message
sure it has, but even the most contemporary conceptual anti-art hyperintellectual installation has one also.
even if is trying to get away from any kind of artsy/handicraft/skill/beauty/traditional art manierism, the aesthetic is there anyway, and for some reason the autor choose the way the piece looks.

[Anonymous No.3609940]

>>3609587
Long time no see, cumbum :^)

[Anonymous No.3611152]

>>3607807
why the fuck are there always people throwing around the word "pretentious" whenever art is being talked about. ugh so pretentious

[Anonymous No.3612376]

>>3586328
saw this thread, thought i might as well.
this is probably stage/session 4 or 5 by now. not sure where it's going, but it certainly needs another workover.

[Anonymous No.3612493]

>>3612376
Its prettt nice. I would put in some warm orange and yellow because green is disrespected

[Anonymous No.3612513]

>>3612493
hey thanks. yeah the green was bothering me. in fact i tried to wipe most of it off after i applied it. probably going to mute it down with a light blue-grey or something.

[Anonymous No.3612519]

>>3612493
>orange and yellow
yeah that would probably put a good balance to it. but i was thinking of letting it tip towards cold colors on the whole.

[Anonymous No.3613188]

>>3607335
blog?

[Anonymous No.3613226]

>>3612376

[Anonymous No.3614314]

>>3613226
yeah there are two or three dull mixed colors in there. Again, this is going to get another workover/clean-up. thanks for the hint, very subtle.

[Anonymous No.3614338]

>>3612376
Dude holy shit i love this! I'd buy it hands down

[Anonymous No.3614544]

>>3614338
cool, send me a discord if you want:

discord.gg / RJDqf2

[Anonymous No.3614808]

>>3613188
>blog?
nah, too busy doing other shit.

i've sold many of my sculptures to some particulars and in a small gallery, but i find them almost works of handycraft and not art, and i got bored of them really quick, so even thinking on doing one more annoys me.

but that's with me, i start to get bored by a thing as soon as i can forsee where it's going.
with abstraction happened kind of the same. after doing a couple of exhibs with this >>3606677 in a gallery and in a local cultural center, i lost interest.

now i´m leaning to do some technical conceptual art (pretentious as fuck).
right now i'm building a machine that slowly drips water collected from the atlantic over a canvas where everyday i write and draw stuff, messages that my sister who lives in europe and i exchange all the time. the water randomly smears and kind of erases some of the messages, so what is left is the remains of a long distance connection. i´ll upload some pics as soon as i get some i like.

[Anonymous No.3617362]

>>3607764
Nice tit. More?