Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Confronting the Real Thing

Feliks Topolski (1907-1989) painter and illustrator, claimed that abstract art is a means of avoiding confronting the real thing. I tend to agree. Along with the conceptual art, it is a handy device for many who would like to draw and paint the real thing but lack the ability. 

My abstract art (if that is what it could be called) is a fragment of the struggle with the real thing. The images below are fragments from my paintings of the nude figure. I stress the word “fragment” rather than detail, for my endeavour is to suggest rather than define.



Footnote: To celebrate being re-connected to broadband, my regular followers will notice that I've added a new image to the title of my blog. 

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