Yorkiechef

Looked at the link, the painting "ice-cream". Very good, but they have conveniently chopped the paining to delete the "Howard aged 3" from it!



If you look carefully, it looks more like my mother in law than an ice cream.

magnumpi

Brilliant? Hmm! Little early for a session the pub isn't it Shard ?

bats

Wonderful colour use. I'm never sure about abstract art mainly because I can't do it.

Oakvillian

I quite like the way he declared that he had never painted an abstract picture in his life, but was a "figurative painter of emotional situations" - I'm not sure how that can be semantically separated from the idea of abstraction, but if that's how he chose to describe his process, then that's what it is! I love the painting he's photographed standing in front of, towards the end of the article.

Yorkiechef

To bats and Oakville..

emperors clothes and all that.....

bats

I wonder if his description is related to, agh can't remeber the correct term, but crossing over of senses. When people sense taste as colour or form. Maybe emotions are felt that way? After all certain colours have feelings atriibuted to them such as blue for sad, red for passion. Perhaps shapes are the same?

I intend to go to an abstraction workshop as it will help with my painting, and presumably interpretation of abstract work.

Shard

Such a wonderful use of colour and in some works, motion. The paintings, in the flesh, are truly 'alive'. Although that applies to many paintings, in figurative art there is much is plenty of visual narrative to appreciate, even from a photograph.

Shard

This is an expression that, try as I might, I can never seem to get my head around. What exactly does it mean?

DaveLovesDee

Something like, 'believing something is more than it actually is', I think.

bats

There's a fable behind the story. The emperor is told by his tailors that only the best can appreciate, see, his new clothing. He can't see them because the don't exist but he won't admit it so he marches naked in his new clothing rather than say that he can't see anything and the crowds laugh at him because they can't see anything either

So if you don't say it's rubbish you're a fool. Unless of course you can see it.

Yorkiechef

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Shard

Thanks. Actually, I know the fable, and its confused me more ! Would something like "brand new" on box of detergent be an example of emperors new clothes?

bats

Only if it were a lie and the person using it and everyone else watching believed it to be brand new in spite of clear evidence to the contrary but once a small boy cries out that they all have seen that brand before they then realise that it is a lie.

Oakvillian

Oh, synaesthesia? Quite possibly. I heard a fascinating interview on CBC radio the other day with a synaesthetic pianist - I can't remember his name. His description of the patterns of colour he sees as he plays, say, a Beethoven sonata was extraordinary.