“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.” – Jackson Pollock
The End of the Cold War, a watercolor I painted when the Berlin Wall fell.
Abstract Art
The above painting wasn’t meant to be abstract art, but a lot of people see it that way. I painted it back when the Berlin Wall came down, and titled it “The End of the Cold War.”
It’s an imperfect flower poking its way up through rusting mortar rockets designed for warfare.
It’s one of my favorite paintings, and currently hangs above my bed.
The photograph below, whose hue has been doctored a bit, was inspired by a blog post I read this morning. http://tinyurl.com/z9u2nr8 The post, Travel Theme: Abstract, suggested readers post their own abstract photography. I loved the blogger’s examples and went hunting through my own photos to see what I could find. As I looked, I also glanced up at the painting in my bedroom – and thought it fit the theme as well.
The untouched photo on the left is simply a small section of a photograph I took of a cheetah in Tanzania, and the doctored photograph below is simply river water.
A River of a different hue. — Photo by Pat Bean
Now go find your own abstract art – and if you like, tell me about it.
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Nice watercolors, Pat!