Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?