Abstract Art

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ABSTRACT ART

For my next art project I decided to focus on abstract art. I love abstract art because it gives you the freedom to create literally whatever you want. At least that’s what I thought when I began this process. However, through my research I found that abstract art is defined as art that does not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world, even in an extremely distorted or exaggerated way.  I began the process of creating my art by first looking at multiple examples of abstract art. I saw many examples, but the ones that stood out to me the most were those that incorporated bright, bold colors, and textures. I decided to incorporate this into my painting.

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My piece is about life. As babies, we are born as a pure clean slate. However, the moment we enter the world, its influence starts to affect us. I used the white space to represent innocence and the pink to represent us as humans. As life goes on you are presented with many different challenges in life, but you also have many triumphs. There are also days that aren’t challenging or triumphant. In my painting I used the black to represent the challenges, ombre grey to represent the just regular days, and the gold glitter to represent the happy times in your life. I also wanted to use glitter to add texture to my painting.

 I really enjoyed the process of creating this painting. One joy I found during this process was the freedom in creating this type of art. I had a backstory for my piece, but you don’t need any kind of story to do abstract art. You can just do. One negative of the process was not having the subjects in the art represent something from reality. I like for the subjects in my painting to represent reality. It was hard not to paint actual figures.

Through working with abstract art, I learned that painting doesn’t always have to have an elaborate story to represent it. It can sometimes just be and that is beautiful.

A site with great abstract art lessons:
http://www.teachkidsart.net/tag/abstract-art/