"Fluid Forms". Abstract Digital art by E. Moo Young

Insights in Abstraction

Abstract Art Quote:

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. (Lawren Harris)

Abstract Drawing on Paper by Errol Moo Young.

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Errol Moo Young - "Unsettled Molecules"

"Unsettled Molecules" Mixed media line drawing on paper.
The agitated once ignited takes time to subside.

Digital Fusion of drawings, graphic elements and collage.

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So you don't understand Abstract Art?

To better understand and appreciate abstract art, the artists own words can be a useful guide.

Some quotes are deep and profound. Some are difficut and obscure. Some are strange and puzzling. Others give an insight into their thinking and execution.

1. Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I prefer to see with closed eyes. (Josef Albers)

2. When I paint, I liberate monsters... They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience... One does not choose the content, one submits to it. (Pierre Alechinsky)

3. When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely. (Pierre Alechinsky)

4. People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can’t. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood. (Pierre Alechinsky)

5. Abstraction demands more from me than realism. Instead of reproducing something outside of me, 

now I go inward and use everything I’ve learned thus far in my life. (Susan Avishai)

6. Abstract art today needs no defense. It has become one of the many ways to paint or carve or model. But it is not yet a kind of art which people like without some study and some sacrifice of prejudice. (Alfred H. Barr Jr.)

7. If you work with abstract painting for a period of time, you may come to think of it as a melody, a song, a piece of beautiful music. (Judi Betts)

8. All paintings are abstract. Some abstract paintings also have pictorial representation or narrative content, but in essence they are first and foremost abstract because we have only paint. (Robert Bissett)

pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. (Constantin Brancusi)

9. Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. (Robert Brault)

10. When you see a fish you don’t think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. (Constantin Brancusi)

Detail from "Disjointed #3.
Digitally manipulated thicket of bamboo.

In the process of making a painting in an abstract way, the painter is in search of a reality. Not one of realistic objects, but of the complete end result. The painting is experienced as a whole, and must evoke in the painter the absolute conviction that this is how it should be and no other way. 

(Paul Burlin)

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6 Abstract Art T-Shirt designs

Ever wondered what the Stars might be wearing next year... ?
Take a look at 6 abstract art T-shirts. An alternative universe to the mundane.

"CONFIGURE" abstract art by E. Moo Young

Mixed media abstract art on paper.

Abstract art in progress #2b - by E. Moo Young

Abstract art on paper. Mixed media with acrylic painting and drawing.
A fluid line outlining disappearing boundaries.
A thought: if 2 million refugees cross a border, can they be stopped?

Abstract Art in progress 4.19.4

Untitled artwork. Mixed media on paper.
Combining acrylic painting, oil pastels, drawing and collage.

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In progress...art by E. Moo Young

In progress. Mixed media art on paper.

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April 2014 art in progress

From the sketchpad... mixed media on paper.

2 quotes from Alechinsky

Notes for an abstract artist

When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely. (Pierre Alechinsky)

People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can’t. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood. (Pierre Alechinsky)

"Outlines" art on paper by E. Moo Young

From free flowing lines, the forms emerge.
Mixed media art on paper.

Wall of Silence - E. Moo Young art.

Abstract figurative mixed media art. Rapid drawing using oil crayons, acrylic, pen lines to etch out

the abject figure and faces.

Are we remaining silent when we witness injustice?

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I came across an interesting commentary and quote about Madeline Denaro:

The work of Madeline Denaro is very much about process. A painter committed to abstraction for over two decades, Denaro finds the image secondary to the art making. Working intuitively, she enters a realm of the unknown where there is more of a following than any real choice.

“There is an openness that is needed for this direct experience, this self imposed repetitive process of adding and subtracting, as I build, destroy, erase, paint over. There is a definite chaos through which each work evolves and it seems to return repeatedly to its beginning. But with each return, there are the markings, the scars of the previous. I have a relationship to these subtleties, these sensitivities, keeping some, hiding some...knowing full well all that has been before.”

Emooyoung's automatic drawing #17

Automatic drawing #17 

Let the line lead.

If you work with abstract painting for a period of time, you may come to think of it as a melody, a song, a piece of beautiful music. (Judi Betts)

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Abstract art on a yellow t-shirt

Ever wonder what abstract art would look like on a yellow t-shirt?
What the stars might be wearing at next year's Oscar :)

"Obtuse" Mixed media on paper. 

Can there be a once and final meaning for anything?

It’s what you learn after knowing it all that counts. -John Wooden 

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"Figure in Deep Blue" Mixed media on paper.
Lost in the blue yonder. A reconstruction.

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Errol Moo Young Abstract art video.

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Errol Moo Young video - Abstract Experiments.

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Abstract Line drawing on paper. Emerging from a trance.

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Digital Art Fusions - EMooYoung

Digital Art Fusions. Exultation at a Religious ceremony.

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Line Drawing on Paper.

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Abstract Art by E. Moo Young

Abstract Art

Mixed media/collage art on paper.

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Average temperature in Jamaica : 80 degrees F.
Still having a warm time. Escape from the East Coast.

View near Irish Town.

On a recent trip into the Blue Mountains.