The conversation started with a casual ‘critique’ on my artwork . It tends to remind of Jackson Pollock was the conclusion. It was the second time and by a second person.
My art (it seems ) tends to be a reminder . I am self-taught and (curious) experimental . So once when I was just fiddling with masking tapes and some primary colours without a clue ; I was told the resultant art just reminded of Mondrian. It is not intended yet comes as an ego-boosting surprise to be a reminder of works of great artists .
The conversation stirred me this morning (after ages) and I started looking for Jackson Pollocks work and ended up finding Helen Frankenthaler and her oil paint soak canvasses of abstract expressionism.
I took a long look at her work ‘Mountains and sea’ . The subtle oil paint soaked huge canvas that she painted in Jackson Pollock’s ‘ action painting ‘ style reminded me of a city I visited with the mountains and the sea which was the birthplace of Picasso and Gaudi .
Art is many things as Alain de Button describes in his book ‘ Art as Therapy ‘. The one thing I believe is the most prominent is it tends to be a reminder of what we had once known and forgotten and also the reminder how one human is connected to another even though poles apart ;like mountains and sea
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