#Abstract art

[ericaofanderson]

Telos.

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KnownOrigin / SuperRare / OBJKT / Zedge 

[darkrooklobby]

"Trapped in endings I don't want you to know."

(-- alternative colors cuz i'm indecisive:😄)

[metmuseum]

Vessel in the form of a boar. ca. 3100–2900 BCE. Credit line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Anonymous Gift, 1979 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/326617

[abstraktr]

[dailyrothko]

"Slow Swirl by the Edge of the Sea is really the first painting I remember. It was hanging over the couch in the living room of the family brownstone in New York City. But it's also a very important piece in the family because my father painted it for my mother shortly after meeting her in

1944-45. It's subtitled, "Mell Ecstatic," my mother's nickname was Mell and the painting shows two figures, presumably my father and my mother, at a surrealistically styled seaside.

But they're twisted and distorted in the way that our mind does so in dreams and in the imagination.

He was in New York at that point and he was still living in very, very modest means.

He and his first wife had recently divorced and not too long after that, he had met my mother and I think this was actually a very joyful period for him because they had a very romantic courtship and married shortly thereafter. But he's really just barely, barely on anyone's radar in terms of being a known artist.

He is really struggling to get his voice heard."

-Christopher Rothko

Mark, Mell and Christopher Rothko with the painting Slow Swirl At The Edge Of The Sea in background. (c. 1944)

Photographer Unknown

©️ Rothko family estate

(Identity of the other child is unknown to me at this time)

[arthuntblog]

Ilya Bolotowsky (1907-1981) [Russian] — ‘Untitled’, c. 1970. Screenprint in colors on paper (86 × 24 cm).

[colormush]

[granstromjulius]

Hilma af Klint

[doppleganger-rental]

BIG one. 48x60”

Untitled. acrylic on canvas

[hellsgate-roadhouse]

Artist: dietmar höpfl

[ericaofanderson]

Let Me Cook.

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[elusive-wow]

Nenad Bacanovic

[metmuseum]

Waterpot (Suichū). ca. 1850–60s. Credit line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/47081

[thefugitivesaint]

oakoak, 'Free Rothko', 2024 Source

[fandomsandfeminism]

When people look at abstract art and go "uh I could make that"

Fuck, I wish you would!

I wish you would let this inspire you. I wish that seeing a piece of abstract art would move you to self expression.

I wish you would go to the craft store, buy a cheap canvas and some cheap paint and let yourself play with color and form just to see if you can.

I wish that there were more amateur painters, trying their hand at geometric abstraction and color field painting. That would be so fucking cool.

"I could make that" should be a joyous revelation, not a snarky dismissal.

You could make that? Holy shit. please. Please make that.

Jack Bush

Kenneth Noland

Piet Mondrain

Pat Lipsky

Joan Mitchell

Helen Frankenthaler

Kikuo Saito

Marilyn Kirsch

Mark Rothko

Adolph Gottlieb