earl broclo ESQ Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 nice, i can see that in some of them. i like these last ones, but i'm still feeling the darker one from your last post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataq808 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 some recent paintings from last semester. any feedback would be great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 i like them, just try to respect the "integrity" of each thread--this is for abstracts, there is another for oils, and another for general 'critique my shit"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earl broclo ESQ Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 i think that first one definitely deserves to be in here, i like that the most. i like the drop shadows you used in it. as mr. fist said, keep to the thread, and you won't get shit from people. post more of you abstracts in here though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataq808 Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 thanks for the advice. i'll post more pics of my other abstract pieces when i get a chance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 The design/fill in the white space in that first one is on point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 hmmm, circle t? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 is it just me or is there lettering in the background on the top and bottom of the page... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 looks like a ten dollar bill to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabloid- Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Diebenkorn is amazing. I find his work very moving in person. The use of color and layer was very forward for the time period. Although I am a bit biased. My first real painting teacher introduced me to the Ocean Park series when I was 17 and it really struck a cord. I paint nothing like RD, but I love the idea of an exposed under painting. His figurative work doesn't get as much shine.... but it should. I always thought Wayne Thiebaud was the opaque version of Diebenkorn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 yeah the california abstract artists were touched on in my younger years Nathan Oliveira was my favorite from that school of Art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I sorta like these for some reason, they seem to be too well executed and may lack enough assertion to chaos yet they somehow still grab me a bit. Patrick Hill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earl broclo ESQ Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 do you have a link to where the show is? i'll go check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 those last couple look like you'd see them in a dentists office. i like the idea, but the execution seems very...clinical. moogle, it was drawn on the back of an oversized novelty ten dollar bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yinz n'at Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 bojangles those are awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 "Electric Connect" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Port-A-John Enthusiest Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 the skateboard is pretty dope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 those are great bojangles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 Aw shucks...Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 shit, that's fresh. so the other day i'm wandering around the Tate, in london, cause you know, i do shit like ball outrageous. anyway, i check out half of it, don't care for anything, then from way across the room i spot was i believe to be a twombly. personally, i dont really care for his stuff, but i know beardo does, so i atleast have a cursory understanding of it. anyway, i checked em out, and decided i liked 1 of the 3 they had. we then go down to the bookstore, where i look at some random artist books, puzzels, crayon sets, lawnchairs and anything else they can attempt to market. me: 'yo, can we please go now? art fucking gay.' not me: 'of course' me: 'cool, we gotta find a bathroom first' not me: 'ok, i think if we take that escalator, thats the floor we came in on, and there's bathrooms there' me: 'um, we just passed the floor we came in on. quick, jump' not me: 'shut up' me: (turning towards the top of the excalador, looking at whats ahead) 'holy fuck' not me: 'what?' three rooms filled with abstract work, the first of which, which is visible from the escalotor, has two giant newmans. as corny as it is, i was like a giddy fucking kid. i just stood there, staring that them. im not sure what sort of magical experience i was expecting, but it was pretty rad. i dont believe ive ever seen one 'in real life'. i may have at the philly museum, but it was before i really fully appreciated it, so it doesnt count (like going to another country when you're 3). i fully plan to go back alone so i can spend more time geeking out on them. perhaps ill remember to get photos. in addition to that, they also had an entire rothko room, filled with paintings that were not the gay ass 3 stripe paintings he's so famous for that i dont like very much at all. these werent exactly my favorite either, but they were huge and no 3 striped, and that made me like them. there was also a clyfford still wich i was stoked on, cause he's another favorite of mine. anyway, that's my contribution to the 'abstract thread' for the week. and probably the month. im not really in any position to be doing any painting, so unfortunately it's gonna have to wait. i am however balling outrageous, so fuck it. conscessions get made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Thought I'd add to this thread, not really on the same level as most of the abstract work in here and I wouldn't know who those people Seeking spoke about are. I'm experimenting with some abstract on paper, I never really knew colors just got lucky a few times. Trying to get this style worked out before I hit a canvas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Damn seeks way to make me feel like shit for not being able to see an exhibit like that. When in Spain i had to settle for the Picasso museum and pre-columbian art. Not as kick ass as a Rothko or Newman, and a Still to cap it off. Fuck nice post. /YesJely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Nice Merc. Try a study with same style where you break up the designs for composition purposes or increase the decrease some shapes. I like the idea, but i think it needs some more composition meaning, it looks to uniformed to me like a design or wallpaper. Nice design or print, but breaking it up a bit will really bring that line work out. But nice, sorry if its too technical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 My wife liked a few I did like that for her in spring colors and thinks it would make a good purse lining.:lol: I'm not sure what you mean by breaking up the shapes, like split them apart and create negative space between them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Yeah more negative space or create negative space by making some fill ins bigger. Its hard to see cause i its so uniform, but it needs to look unique and negative space is great a showcasing nice line work. This is nice though, just try it as an exercise you might find something in the exercise to add to your original design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Thanks, I havn't painted one yet so I'll try that idea while I do some more paperwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 I did not like Cy Twombli for a long time, but after a few years of regularly going to his building at the Menil Collection, I finally came to really appreciate some of his stuff. my favorite is this one (I can't find a better photo, but in person it is pretty breathtaking): Newman is pretty fuckin rad. Him, and Rothko have been large influences on the way I conceive of conceptual transition, not only in art but other fields as well. anywho, good story seeks. Poesia- that sketch up there is some of the best from 12oz i've seen in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 oh, and caption for the photo: Cy Twombly at Cy Twombly Gallery in Houston in front of the gallery's largest painting, "Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor." I think it is no coincidence that artists such as him and Rothko focused so heavily on the relationship between aesthetic representation and Greek Mythology. While I dislike much of Rothko's early work, his focus on Mythological figures and forms is much like a lot of Twombly's pieces. blahh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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