Abstract by nature

  Admit, how many times passing by abstract painting, your ego loudly shouted at your perplexed self:

“I can do it too!”.

Norman Rockwell "The Connoisseur"

  And the ego is right (isn’t it always ?). Wanna bet? 

  On a rainy or otherwise nasty day make to the zoo. There should be a pavilion devoted to invertebrates. Since elephants magnetize the bulk of the crowd, you won’t be much disturbed.

  What can be more advantageous for a wannabe abstractionist than a point-n-shoot in a quiet dark chamber aiming at constantly moving already abstract by nature subjects, inside skillfully well lit aquariums?

Benefits:

- Creative process does not require a studio for “placing an unstretched raw canvas on the floor where it could be attacked from all four sides using artist materials and industrial materials”, like Pollock.

- Nor does the final art have to project an “image of being rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic and, nihilistic”, like Kandinsky.
- Creator don’t have to “let the paint drip onto the canvas, while rhythmically dancing, or even standing in the canvas, sometimes letting the paint fall according to the subconscious mind, thus letting the unconscious part of the psyche assert and express itself.”

- Creator does not have to drag along: flashes (though permitted) and tripods, easels, buckets of paint and mops to spread that paint all over.

  One noticeable con: Artworks won’t find a place at the National Gallery.

Abstract 1

Elegance Coral

Abstract 2

Tube Anemone

Abstract 3, triptych

Jelly Fish

Jelly Fish

Jelly Fish

Abstract 4

Spotted Spiny Lobster

Abstract 5

Nautilus Pompilius

Abstract 6

Sculptured Cuttle Fish

Abstract 7

Polyp

Images are taken at the Smithsonian National Zoo with Sony NEX 3.

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Photography by Alex | PHOTOARTEL, photo editing by Lara | PHOTOARTEL