Salsify Abstract #5
by J McCombie
Title
Salsify Abstract #5
Artist
J McCombie
Medium
Painting - Mixed
Description
This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, "For Children".
Elements of this piece came from the achenes of the Wildflower named Yellow Salsify. Other abstracts containing the same colours are available in my "Colour Composition of Nature" Gallery. If you see the colours you wish, but they are not in the particular colour movement or treatment you like, drop me a line and I can design one for you.
Like most salsifies, the Western Salsify grows as an annual or occasionally biennial forb, reaching a height of typically 20-60 cm (8-24 inches) but sometimes almost a metre. After the yellow flower, the plant forms a seed head that resembles that of the dandelions but is distinctly larger. Every little achene within the clock or wishie has a feather pappus to spread the seed by the wind. The wishie is 3 to 4 inches in diamater. The seeds themselves (known as achenes) are 2-4 cm (3/4-1.5 inches) long but featherweight, weighing about 8 mg each on average. There is some natural variation between the central and peripheral achenes in the seedhead, with the peripheral ones being generally darker and heavier, and having a higher concentration of phenolic compounds; this may enhance their survival potential. It is the achene that is featured in this artwork piece.
Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms. They are similar, but perhaps not of identical meaning.
Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive. Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. In geometric abstraction, for instance, one is unlikely to find references to naturalistic entities. Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. But figurative and representational (or realistic) art often contains partial abstraction.
Both geometric abstraction and lyrical abstraction are often totally abstract. Among the very numerous art movements that embody partial abstraction would be for instance fauvism in which color is conspicuously and deliberately altered vis-a-vis reality, and cubism, which blatantly alters the forms of the real life entities depicted.
A commonly held idea is that pluralism characterizes art at the beginning of the 21st century. There is no consensus, nor need there be, as to a representative style of the age. There is an anything goes attitude that prevails; an "everything going on", and consequently "nothing going on" syndrome; this creates an aesthetic traffic jam with no firm and clear direction and with every lane on the artistic superhighway filled to capacity. Consequently magnificent and important works of art continue to be made albeit in a wide variety of styles and aesthetic temperaments, the marketplace being left to judge merit.
Digital art, computer art, internet art, hard-edge painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism, expressionism, minimalism, lyrical abstraction, pop art, op art, abstract expressionism, color field painting, monochrome painting, neo-expressionism, collage, decollage, intermedia, assemblage, digital painting, postmodern art, neo-Dada painting, shaped canvas painting, environmental mural painting, graffiti, figure painting, landscape painting, portrait painting, are a few continuing and current directions at the beginning of the 21st century.
Into the 21st century abstraction remains very much in view, its main themes: the transcendental, the contemplative and the timeless; art as object in minimalist sculpture and paintings; the poetic, lyrical abstraction and the sensuous use of color.
The distinction between abstract and figurative art has, over the last twenty years, become less defined leaving a wider range of ideas for all artists.
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