Paintings
From 2003 to 2006 I used a bedroom in my home in Santa Rosa as an art studio. Using acrylic paint and other media, I painted over a hundred paintings. I did a few gallery showings of my works, managed to sell a few paintings, and gave several away as gifts. My paintings are primarily abstract expressionist. Many are in imitation of the works of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Tobey, and Hans Hofmann.
Appreciating Abstract Art
The best way to approach and appreciate an abstract painting is to not ask: “What is it?” That question is appropriate for representational paintings, with images that represent people, objects, or scenes in the real world. A representational artist begins with what is ‘outside’ – the world out there – and arrives at a ‘within’ – the artist’s way of seeing and representing what he/she sees. The abstract expressionist painter, on the other hand, begins with the ‘within’. He/she ‘looks within’ and then expresses his/her thoughts and feelings in color and form on canvas.
Instead of asking “What is it?” about an abstract painting, it is best to simply look at the painting and note the artist’s choices – the colors, the forms, the placement of forms, painted space vs. white space, warm colors (red, yellow, orange, white) vs. cool colors (blue, green, black) – and then to speculate on why the artist made those choices. Most important is to look at the painting and note what feelings and thoughts it invokes in you. That’s what the painting ‘is’.
I have organized the paintings into four galleries, according to the year painted. Click on the links below.
Paintings, 2006: http://kenlosey.weebly.com/paintings-2006.html
Paintings, 2005: http://kenlosey.weebly.com/paintings-2005.html
Paintings, 2004: http://kenlosey.weebly.com/paintings-2004.html
Paintings, 2003: http://kenlosey.weebly.com/paintings-2003.html
From 2003 to 2006 I used a bedroom in my home in Santa Rosa as an art studio. Using acrylic paint and other media, I painted over a hundred paintings. I did a few gallery showings of my works, managed to sell a few paintings, and gave several away as gifts. My paintings are primarily abstract expressionist. Many are in imitation of the works of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Tobey, and Hans Hofmann.
Appreciating Abstract Art
The best way to approach and appreciate an abstract painting is to not ask: “What is it?” That question is appropriate for representational paintings, with images that represent people, objects, or scenes in the real world. A representational artist begins with what is ‘outside’ – the world out there – and arrives at a ‘within’ – the artist’s way of seeing and representing what he/she sees. The abstract expressionist painter, on the other hand, begins with the ‘within’. He/she ‘looks within’ and then expresses his/her thoughts and feelings in color and form on canvas.
Instead of asking “What is it?” about an abstract painting, it is best to simply look at the painting and note the artist’s choices – the colors, the forms, the placement of forms, painted space vs. white space, warm colors (red, yellow, orange, white) vs. cool colors (blue, green, black) – and then to speculate on why the artist made those choices. Most important is to look at the painting and note what feelings and thoughts it invokes in you. That’s what the painting ‘is’.
I have organized the paintings into four galleries, according to the year painted. Click on the links below.
Paintings, 2006: http://kenlosey.weebly.com/paintings-2006.html
Paintings, 2005: http://kenlosey.weebly.com/paintings-2005.html
Paintings, 2004: http://kenlosey.weebly.com/paintings-2004.html
Paintings, 2003: http://kenlosey.weebly.com/paintings-2003.html
Ainigma
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