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The Importance Of Abstract Paintings In Your Home

By Karen Russell


There are so many things involved with the creation of art. The peculiar thing about the best artworks is how the best creations and artists come from certain places. At least this is true to the most notable ones. In the United States, New York and Los Angeles seem to produce the ones that gets noticed the most by many important curators.

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.

This is not to go into technicalities but there are so many factors one can consider. First off, is whether or not it means something to you. That should be the highest factor to consider when buying a painting. Whether it is simply something that you found from Bath and Beyond or something you have scoured the county for.

The thing with abstraction is that there is no concrete life form visual and accurate representation that immediately makes the subject recognizable, if even there is a subject at all. Abstract in its essence is a matter of composition consisting of well placed shapes and colors. While this may be true it does not stop it from holding so much meaning and life.

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.

More contemporary artists are meant to do really good in galleries found in Los Angeles. This is because art movements and new or evolved perspectives are still being valued. Not that it is not valued anywhere else either. The crowd and culture is just so much diverse. Look for the weird and the crazy instead of the plain and technical.

Sadly, so many paintings out there get sold for millions and they are just a work of laziness. It is absurd to look at that some pieces that get displayed in galleries are just made for the shock factor. These types tend to be questionable pieces. For those art enthusiasts and those struggling to make their way up such a competitive field, it can be quite unfair.

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.

Funny how people may not be able to identify a Pollock from a random canvas splattered with paint. The latter is more likely the grocery store, interior design piece that you find. A Pollock is one that actually has intricate composition involving patterns and have reached to a point where the way it was made is mathematical in nature. The trick is to know the difference between genius and pretentiousness.




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