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...design to, in a sense, digitally paint over them. It was tedious work (about 250 hours of animation work went into each minute of film), but the effect is astonishing. What we see is like a moving painting, at times very representational, at others more blockish and abstract. Each of the animators has been assigned a separate character or scene, and their different styles come across in the varying levels of surrealism. Some scenes simply look like grainy photographs, while others are dizzyingly wacky. Lips float off of faces. Walls refuse to hold still. As we follow the nameless central...
...Abstract” art is not always purely abstract; the figurative continues to have a substantial, visible impact on contemporary abstract painting...
...photographs of the late Siskind generally consist of close-ups of elements of graffiti, torn posters and walls. Stripped of their original worldly context and printed larger than life, the black-and-white prints emanate the same power as an abstract expressionist painting. In “New York 6” (1950), the shadows, textures and patterns of what may have been a crumpled paper bag or a torn-up poster suggest a complex and intertwined three-dimensional space, composed of intense and richly black shadows but equally of midtones, highlights and small, textured corners. At once abstract...
Laura Owens provides the clearest, and most whimsical, example of the connection between abstraction and figuration. In “Untitled” (1999), a monkey sits atop a branch, staring at a bee, which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black body of the bee, while the wings are mere outlines. The work also has more abstract elements when decomposed; the monkey is formed from a single color, almost like a Rorsharch inkblot test except for the details on its face. Most of the canvas remains blank and open; the branch...
Because the abstract can seem disconnected from daily reality, from the expected, it is often a more difficult form of artistic expression for viewers to connect with. However, it can be rewarding to come to terms with the unfamiliarity of abstraction—by seeing how truly familiar it can be. Some Options in Abstraction provides a venue to visit and contemplate the abstract within a comfortable, organized setting...