#nonrepresentational art

[vulpine111]

"amazed about my resurrection" 🙏

[meat-brick]

“UnNamed Piece” (2023)

Sharpie, Micron, Poster Board

[piroshky]

Kazimir Malevich’s work displayed in The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10, Petrograd, 1915.

[ciriceart]

Feelin’ fine 🌀

[valeria-corvinia]

Playing with non-representational mixed media.

[joliec]

Bought some new painting spatulas. They arrived yesterday, so I haven't used them yet, but here is a fun piece I made last year using a spatula and a roller. I am excited to see what I will make in the new year.

[aliceferox]

Provoking My Anxiety // 2023

[molepawproductions]

[thetryhardaesthete]

My Top 5 Painters 2/5 - Yves Tanguy

Tanguy's paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoebae suddenly turned to stone

[marlowbrown]

16 x 20, acrylic on canvas

[caffeinesystem]

Probably gonna call it done here.

woooo my eyes are killing me but I enjoy how this turned out. thinking about posting printable and transparent versions of the file for coloring, would folks want that?

[vulpine111]

I'm willing to let this go for $10, plus shipping and handling. Please message or email me if interested!

[csny]

something something about tumblrs relationship to art that really troubled me a lot in my own development. it’s obviously the fandom and characters website but the incredible pinpoint focus on drawing people, drawing digitally, not knowing how to do backgrounds, making eyes of matching size, “same face syndrome”—all that stuff that i’m sure everyone else has seen ad nauseum as well—is honestly so reductionist. i remember being a teen and thinking my friends art would “never make it” because it was abstract and geometric. obviously in hindsight that’s so stupid, but that was what being online for so long had distorted me into believing. i mean im not saying drawing characters (original or fanart) is bad! im not saying drawing digitally is bad! im just saying that people of course engage more with art on here that they already have some kind of connection to. “wow you drew my favorite character!” etc. so of course that’s the kind of art you’re going to see more of online.

i feel like the only art advice posts i’ve seen circulate also are ones focused on this character-based art focus. things like: how to draw noses, you need to learn how to draw diverse people (true, but like. not if you never draw people. or do nonrepresentational/abstract art), how to do simple backgrounds. even the entire constant discussion of “1. sketch 2. lineart 3. color” i think probably reduces people’s thinking of their own art. idk. it’s not the biggest issue in the world by a long shot. i just wish young artists could hear that the only advice they really need is “make art.” make whatever you are drawn to. never try to compromise something for social media engagement. please

[machine-saint]

i've seen some "modern art" (not sure what the actual term here is, the highly abstract nonrepresentational stuff) that was deeply impressive to me. i saw delaunay's rhythm no. 1 in person and it was astounding. i've also seen some stuff that didn't move me at all, like cy twombly's work; i just couldn't get anything out of it. this is centrism, i think

[un-monstre]

New art exhibit where we fill the hall with nonrepresentational art. When people view it and inevitably say "I could do that" we put a bag over their heads and whisk them into a beginning art class. You can make art, and you will

[sivavakkiyar]

People know nonrepresentational visual art precedes the 20th century Western art world right. And that finding a particularly analogous ‘musical’ equivalent like Cage or anything atonal is particularly kind of silly (as you know before Schoenberg and Cage all music was representational, directly…every just listened to tone poems all the time)