Vocabulary of emotion--cumulative results (so far)
In the spirit of Alexey's own work (just you wait till you see his piece in the anthology), I combined the responses so far--Alexey's, Mike's, Joumana's and mine:
Here it is without mine (because those big blots tend to overwhelm everything):
And here are mine and Mike's combined (I thought they worked well together, especially "femininity" and "peacefulness"):
It's amazing how, in the last one, Mike's lines seems to elucidate your blots and they make sense together. I would never have thought of trying to combine them, this is so interesting. It's giving me ideas for activities in the gallery I moderate :D
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The artists assembled by Andrei Molotiu for his anthology ABSTRACT COMICS (Fantagraphics, $39.99) push “cartooning” to its limits... It’s a fascinating book to stare at, and as with other kinds of abstract art, half the fun is observing your own reactions: anyone who’s used to reading more conventional sorts of comics is likely to reflexively impose narrative on these abstractions, to figure out just what each panel has to do with the next.
--Douglas Wolk, New York Times Book Review, Holiday Books edition, December 6, 2009 The collection has a wealth of rewarding material... it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.
--Doug Harvey, LA Weekly It becomes a treat to take a page of art - or a simple panel - and consider how the shapes, texture, depth, and color interact with one another; to reflect on how, when one takes the time, the enjoyment one ordinarily finds in reading a purely textually-oriented, narrative-driven written story can - with the graphic form - be translated into something completely different.
--Adam Waterreus, Politics and Prose, "Favorite Graphic Literature of the Year."
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--Design Observer
For years, comics (at least American ones) have doggedly refused for one reason or another, to consider other schools of art and beyond mere representation. It's only now we see artists attempting to branch out and try to push at the edge's of the medium's definition. As such I found Abstract Comics to be a revealing, thought-provoking and genuinely lovely book that I'll be sure to be rereading in the months to come.
It's amazing how, in the last one, Mike's lines seems to elucidate your blots and they make sense together. I would never have thought of trying to combine them, this is so interesting. It's giving me ideas for activities in the gallery I moderate :D
ReplyDeleteAwesome, you caught my secret agenda! :) Really looking forward to playing with these, and love the diversity so far.
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