Abstract 18 series 2 This is my first attempt at revisiting the process making these comics. I like the ambiguous role of the paint. Sometimes it functions as a gutter sometimes as a panel. Abstract 19 is another piece done with the same found image. Drawingsilence.com
I meant actually draw the images and the black areas, or paint them would be probably even better, from your altered "collage"/found image piece. I don't know why, but I think it would be really powerful. It looks great now --- but that would be even better. Perhaps I'm also thinking of how many artists have used collages or montages as inspiration, such as how Picasso learned so much from his collages and by painting "from" then created synthetic Cubism.
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On Abstract Comics: The Anthology (Currently SOLD OUT):
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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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."
...this arresting book is like a scoop of primordial narrative, representational mud. Which is to say, it has vitaminic powers.
--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.
This is really evocative. I think I would like it even better "redrawn."
ReplyDeleteI agree with MSB. I really like how the negative space of the gutter becomes super-muscular. It makes the photo flatten.
ReplyDeleteHey thanks guys. A few questions:
ReplyDeleteMark, What do you mean by "redraw"?
w, what is "super-muscular"?
Please excuse my ignorance
I meant that it comes OUT instead of sitting BACK. Like a punch in the eye!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI meant actually draw the images and the black areas, or paint them would be probably even better, from your altered "collage"/found image piece. I don't know why, but I think it would be really powerful. It looks great now --- but that would be even better. Perhaps I'm also thinking of how many artists have used collages or montages as inspiration, such as how Picasso learned so much from his collages and by painting "from" then created synthetic Cubism.
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