Abstract art paintings for sale will appeal to some who might come across them on the Internet, but who might not previous have taken any interest in this kind of painting. Before the Internet Age it would have been necessary to make an extra effort to visit a gallery or exhibition to see such works. Now they can be more easily viewed.
Now it is possible to look through large collections and galleries online, or enter a site that has only the works of a single artist. There is a good argument for believing that viewing experiences have been vastly improved. For those who argue there is no substitute for walking around the echoing halls of a terrestrial gallery to examine works in all their dimensions, that choice remains. Internet research might just make an early reconnoiter of all that is available possible.
Some people marvel at the clear distinction between Oriental and Western art. Although the former is much older than the latter there are such clear distinctions that one is moved to wonder how and why such basic differences occur. One writer observed that the Chinese painters see with the eye of the mind and westerners with the physical eye. If such were to be true some Oriental art that appears representational could also be considered abstract. However, for practical communicative purposes it is probably most convenient to name abstract art as that form of non representational paintings that began to emerge around the beginning of the twentieth century in the western hemisphere.
Movements such as Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism changed western art as the twentieth century began. It may have been the influence of industrialization that brought about new ferment in the art world. New inventions such as photography might have stimulated artists to go beyond representational work that could be done mechanically.
Any movement that departs radically from the conventional is bound to attract negative comment. There are many who attach abstract art viciously, almost as though they have a grudge against it for no apparent reason. Gleefully they hold up for ridicule unfortunate critics who have been taken in by the work of elephants or apes, mistaking purpose for accident.
Ignorance and affectation can both play their respective roles in appreciation but these are really superficial considerations. More important are real efforts to create meaning out of composition of color, line and form. Human evolution from the concrete world of the senses to the world of concepts and abstractions that hover above us is not only a matter of apprehending but also of creating.
Some painters go out to sketch or photographs scenes. They take these back and work on them with color line and form so that a composition is created without much sign of the actual objects originally there but with a personal response to them in the form of what they symbolize to the artist. This amounts to working backwards from the concrete to the abstract.
What constitutes 'good' taste is not something that is easily arrived at in an objective sense. Taste is an intensely personal issue. However, people who have been cultivated in streams of education and well pruned by critical thinking and debate will probably be the ones most likely to recognize in abstract art paintings for sale that which is most meaningful, tasteful and beautiful.
Now it is possible to look through large collections and galleries online, or enter a site that has only the works of a single artist. There is a good argument for believing that viewing experiences have been vastly improved. For those who argue there is no substitute for walking around the echoing halls of a terrestrial gallery to examine works in all their dimensions, that choice remains. Internet research might just make an early reconnoiter of all that is available possible.
Some people marvel at the clear distinction between Oriental and Western art. Although the former is much older than the latter there are such clear distinctions that one is moved to wonder how and why such basic differences occur. One writer observed that the Chinese painters see with the eye of the mind and westerners with the physical eye. If such were to be true some Oriental art that appears representational could also be considered abstract. However, for practical communicative purposes it is probably most convenient to name abstract art as that form of non representational paintings that began to emerge around the beginning of the twentieth century in the western hemisphere.
Movements such as Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism changed western art as the twentieth century began. It may have been the influence of industrialization that brought about new ferment in the art world. New inventions such as photography might have stimulated artists to go beyond representational work that could be done mechanically.
Any movement that departs radically from the conventional is bound to attract negative comment. There are many who attach abstract art viciously, almost as though they have a grudge against it for no apparent reason. Gleefully they hold up for ridicule unfortunate critics who have been taken in by the work of elephants or apes, mistaking purpose for accident.
Ignorance and affectation can both play their respective roles in appreciation but these are really superficial considerations. More important are real efforts to create meaning out of composition of color, line and form. Human evolution from the concrete world of the senses to the world of concepts and abstractions that hover above us is not only a matter of apprehending but also of creating.
Some painters go out to sketch or photographs scenes. They take these back and work on them with color line and form so that a composition is created without much sign of the actual objects originally there but with a personal response to them in the form of what they symbolize to the artist. This amounts to working backwards from the concrete to the abstract.
What constitutes 'good' taste is not something that is easily arrived at in an objective sense. Taste is an intensely personal issue. However, people who have been cultivated in streams of education and well pruned by critical thinking and debate will probably be the ones most likely to recognize in abstract art paintings for sale that which is most meaningful, tasteful and beautiful.
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