| Abstract Landscapes Contributor(s): Coles, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 1072723395 ISBN-13: 9781072723394 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Subjects & Themes - Landscapes & Seascapes |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" (0.62 lbs) 108 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Two great American painters, Mark Rothko and Milton Avery, were both interested in the idea that the essence of a painting was not its illusory representation of "reality and depth" but instead the painting's colors and their relation to each other. Rothko thought that a painting should have no "Representation of Reality" at all. Just be blocks of different colors. And, while Avery agreed that Color Fields, colors and their relationship with each other, were a crucial element in a painting, he also thought paintings should have, however vague and abstract, some reference to "Representational Reality". In this series of abstract landscapes, I tried to find a Middle Path between "Representational Reality" and pure "Color Fields". Even though I later developed a more representational style similar to the German Expressionists, I still see my often heavily distorted representational images as opportunities for extreme use of non-representational color. |