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    612-822-4611

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Abstract Landscapes

Abstract Landscapes

Coles, Chris

Paperback

General Art

ISBN10: 1072723395
ISBN13: 9781072723394
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2019
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.28 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Two great American painters, Mark Rothko and Milton Avery, were both interested in the idea that the essence of a painting was not its illusory representation of reality and depth but instead the painting's colors and their relation to each other. Rothko thought that a painting should have no Representation of Reality at all. Just be blocks of different colors. And, while Avery agreed that Color Fields, colors and their relationship with each other, were a crucial element in a painting, he also thought paintings should have, however vague and abstract, some reference to Representational Reality. In this series of abstract landscapes, I tried to find a Middle Path between Representational Reality and pure Color Fields. Even though I later developed a more representational style similar to the German Expressionists, I still see my often heavily distorted representational images as opportunities for extreme use of non-representational color.

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