Dog Dance Abstract Painting

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Dog Dance abstract painting

Abstract art – in an increasingly ignorant an self-absorbed world, fewer and fewer understand abstract painting. So why do I bother?

2 thoughts on “Dog Dance Abstract Painting”

  1. Why bother?
    Because you care!

    I share your concern.
    But, remember, each painting you do not paint is another lost chance to enlighten someone.

    “How boring the art world would be if we faithfully painted only what we see.”
    Curtis Verdun

  2. Isn’t the true definition of Abstract art purely non representational? That’s the challenge of abstract art. Isn’t this piece representational because you are describing a dog? What would it be called then? Expressionist vs Abstract?

    This is a common misconception. And unlike most artists, I paint EVERYTHING so I have a lot of experience with misunderstandings. 🙂 In general, “An abstraction is an idea, concept, or word which defines the phenomena which make up the concrete events or things which the abstraction refers to, the referents.” Abstract art, generally, is art “that departs significantly from natural appearances.”

    Before Jackson Pollock, you couldn’t call a piece “abstract” if one couldn’t identify the thing from which it was abstracted. Pollock and the New York school gave us the abstraction of ideation; that is, Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Expressionism serves as the disconnect point between the object and the abstraction of object – and this is the type of art you are thinking of when you made your comment. But Abstract Expressionism is by no means the sum total, nor depth, nor breadth of abstraction in art.

    The piece, Dog Dance, is much too abstract to be called expressionism since expressionism is a type of representational art in which the emotional or intangible qualities of a thing are given preeminence. (see Requiem For A Dead Sister as an example). If I hadn’t called this piece Dog Dance, you would never have found the dog – and that makes it an abstract piece. I like to try to bridge the gap between traditional abstract painting and abstract expressionism in this way – although I also LOVE to do pure abstract expressionist paintings. See, Abstract Snow Tires and Unproved Theorem for examples. Thanks for stopping by, Mary! — cp

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