A DRAWING A DAY — ART BLOG — ABSTRACT ART – REALISM

Art Blog: On Abstract Art Curves Walks and Smiling

What is it? What does it mean? How do we Relate to it?

Smiling Art anstract of abstract art by the author Hermione Wilds Writes

Does this brightly coloured abstract art make you smile? But how are you smiling, and what does that smile mean? And how does walking throw light on the subject?

Summary

To begin with a short summary of what the abstract might be thought of. Abstract art is based on ideas with a focus on shapes, colours and textures. An idea or quality is evoked, rather than a concept.

Pastel sketch is by the author Hermione Wilds Writes

‘A drawing is simply a line going for a walk’

[1] Paul Klee

The flippant and comic line above suggests there is more to art than that mere placing of a line on paper. After all, going for a walk is something that writers draw on as a way to turn inward to their writing. The first lines of Jane Eyre, that mysterious gothic novel begins,

‘There was no possibility of…a walk’

[2]