Showing posts with label abstract art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abstract art. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Design Inspiration in D.C.

I was recently in Washington, D.C., and was lucky enough to set aside some time to check out many of the Smithsonian Museums for the first time.

There were two sculptures in the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden that were very inspiring examples of abstract sculpture with a "comic" feel to them, and I'm sure many of you will enjoy these just as much.

Enjoy!

David Smith - Pittsburgh Landscape, 1954


Louise Nevelson - Black Wall, 1964

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If you'd like to explore the Hirshhorn virtually: LINK

- Chris

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Sequentiality, Abstraction and Representation




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I've been working on a series of sequences (so comic strips, actually) as planning for several new stone lithos which will be leporellos, yet also I am working toward "gallery comic" installations as well. I'm attempting to make them ride the line between apparent abstraction and loose representationalism. Hence, as my art school profs would have it, they are indeed abstract, at least abstracted, but not fully non-representational. My work of this nature is usually quite large and the surfaces are very haptic, so scale and surface enter into it as well: due to them, many people do not notice any representations at all. Reproduced small, as on this website, the impression is of course quite different, but I very intrigued by the idea of flirting with but defying full abstract AND full delineation.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Abstract 17 Series 3 ‘Lines’ page 6

Abstract 17 is a six page experiment. Page one is here. I was interested in exploring several ideas. Breaking up and spreading out the elements of a comic over several pages. Seeing if people would use these elements to create narrative. How viewing these pages on the Internet would effect how people viewed these images.
I also like this comic page on its own for its pure miminalism.
Drawingsilence.com

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

abstract art by Tim Gaze





here are 3 recent pieces of abstract art, which I hope will work as abstract comics for some people, but not others. I enjoy making things which sit on the edge.