ABSTRACT ART -Altered or changed from reality. -Modified or changed to emphasize certain qualities or content. -May only look a “little” like real object.

ABSTRACT ART

-Altered or changed from reality.-Modified or changed to emphasize certain qualities or content. -May only look a “little” like real object. -Art is nonrepresentational (does not look exactly like real object).

Is this abstract? Why or why not?

Is this abstract? Why or why not? What does the quote mean?

"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."

Constantin Brancusi (Romanian-French, 1876-1957).

What does Klee’s quote mean?

• "The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."Paul Klee (1879-1940), Swiss painter.

What type of abstraction?Bull by Roy Lichenstein

Georgia O’KeeffeWhat is the source of reality?

Jacob Lawrence

• What is the subject?

• 2 ways the artist abstracted

Ellis Wilson

• From Maysville KY

• Painting hung above mantle in “Cosby Show” living room

Roy Lichenstein – Bull Series

• Simplified colors to primaries- red, blue, yellow, black, and white.

• Simplified shapes and lines

• Flat colors

• Pattern

LANDSCAPE EXAMPLE OF SIMPLIFICATION

Simplify one of tthe pictures below

• You will make a series of 3 drawings in your sketchbook.

• For drawing #1, make a line drawing (paint-by-number style) with no shading.

• Color using a monochromatic, analogous, complimentary, cool, warm, or triad color scheme. Use color pencils.Outline with marker.

• For drawing #2, look at drawing #1 and simplify slightly. Color using different color scheme and outline.

• For drawing #3, look at drawing #2 and simplify more. Color using different color scheme.