tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post1581238965822568197..comments2024-03-08T00:12:34.350-08:00Comments on Art and Quilts, cogitations thereon: Immersed in AbstractionElizabeth Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-49137876369874156662013-08-11T18:57:10.733-07:002013-08-11T18:57:10.733-07:00no dates yet - but will announce on the blog when ...no dates yet - but will announce on the blog when I do!! but it won't be very soon, I have three more trips to make this year before I can sit down with myself and think!! Thank you for looingforward to it!Elizabeth Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-23562095076687978082013-08-11T15:53:58.103-07:002013-08-11T15:53:58.103-07:00Can't wait for your abstract art class to be a...Can't wait for your abstract art class to be available online. Do you have any more information about estimated dates, so I can look forward to it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-23408390723265505612013-08-11T07:00:12.710-07:002013-08-11T07:00:12.710-07:00Thank you, Jackie - there is so much more to the i...Thank you, Jackie - there is so much more to the idea of abstraction and to its history than is commonly known. Varnedoe feels that the study of abstraction could be lifelong and describes how deKooning went on making wonderful paintings even when he could no longer talk or communicate in any way...(other than by painting!)Elizabeth Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-59146581820562899452013-08-10T20:53:52.543-07:002013-08-10T20:53:52.543-07:00Well done! I have created a few abstract pieces bu...Well done! I have created a few abstract pieces but I enjoy paring a subject down and pushing it toward abstraction. The subject is still a thing but reduced more to shapes and shadows and light. I'm coming along and am also eager for the class. I'm going to print out this post, it has so much thought-provoking material in it. thank you!Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730298448632087144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-18626473424249197942013-08-10T04:58:29.818-07:002013-08-10T04:58:29.818-07:00wonderful!wonderful!Elizabeth Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-14865891491137813832013-08-10T04:48:41.068-07:002013-08-10T04:48:41.068-07:00Yikes! Great post! Can't wait!
One of yo...Yikes! Great post! Can't wait!<br /><br />One of your "poor" students for next week!<br /><br />See you tomorrow!<br /><br />Linda GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-85830870328865548722013-08-09T12:40:47.185-07:002013-08-09T12:40:47.185-07:00yes the book is Pictures of Nothing by Kirk Varned...yes the book is Pictures of Nothing by Kirk Varnedoe, pub 2006.It was based on a series of lectures he gave - alas he died in 2003, a brilliant man.<br />And yes, Leigh - it does get better as you know more and can sort out the wheat from the chaff!<br />Elizabeth Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-47364931540484570222013-08-09T12:13:32.599-07:002013-08-09T12:13:32.599-07:00Thanks for another thoughtful and thought-provokin...Thanks for another thoughtful and thought-provoking post. I spent a couple years fumbling around with different art quilt styles before I realized that abstraction is what I'm truly passionate about. As you mentioned, so many people say they don't "get" abstraction, or they insist on making abstract works look like "something." <br /><br />I think what I love is the pure design process, the ability to work solely with design, color, form, texture, etc. without having to "be" something. While most of my art quilt contemporaries say they really have to stretch to work abstractly, for me it's the reverse, it frees me up to just compose.<br /><br />I have found it very hard to find books or even good online references to abstraction, so I'm eager to check out the Kirk Varnedoe book you refer to. Is it "Pictures of Nothing."?<br /><br />P.S. Leigh - I'm in the PNW as well, would love to know if you hear of abstraction classes in this area!Sharon Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16161304908727113546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-46526114710902490852013-08-09T09:40:17.993-07:002013-08-09T09:40:17.993-07:00Elizabeth, I'd really like to take your class....Elizabeth, I'd really like to take your class. I would like to learn more about design principles, and appreciate abstract art more than I do. I mostly feel I don't 'get' it. I tend to feel that if my dog could do it, or I could pick it off the floor of my studio, then the artist isn't trying hard enough. And yet that piece is in a gallery. Or the Pompidou!!! So clearly there is more there. I'd at least like to know more about it and have some context.<br /><br />Keep us all posted on your classes - I'll keep an eye out for something nearby (pacific NW). Leigh in Portland (we are not burning down)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06372544021604211747noreply@blogger.com