ADJECTIVE ART…VIEWING LIFE FROM AN ABSTRACT PROSPECTIVE - Part Two

         WELL TO CONTINUE THE STORY, ONE BY ONE HE BEGAN TO WALK NEXT TO THE LONG SHEETS OF BLACK AND WHITE PAINTED PAPER AND PROCEEDED TO TELL EACH ONE OF US HOW TERRIBLE OUR WORK WAS.  WHEN HE CAME TO MY MASTER PIECE HE CONTINUED TO CRITICIZE EACH FOOT OF IT, LIKE HE DID TO MY FELLOW CLASSMATES, UNTIL HE GOT ABOUT TEN FEET IN AND HE STOPPED AND SAID, SOMEONE GET ME A PAIR OF SCISSORS.  I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO CUT IT TO SHREDS  BUT INSTEAD HE SAID NOW THIS IS ART.  NO ONE WAS MORE SURPRISED THAN I WAS, BUT HE BEGAN TO EXPLAIN THAT IT HAD ALL THE QUALITIES NEEDED TO BE A GOOD PAINTING.  FIRST IT HAD BALANCE AND STRUCTURE, IT DID NOT FEEL LIKE IT WAS FALLING OVER.  SECONDLY IT HAD TEXTURE AND UNUSUAL SHAPES, WHICH ADDED TO THE STRUCTURE, AND WITH THE BLACK AND WHITE OVER LAPPING YOU COULD NOT TELL WHICH WAS THE BASE SO IT BECAME KIND OF INTERCHANGEABLE.  OVERALL IT WAS PLEASING TO LOOK AT, RATHER THAN UNSETTLING AND THAT IS REALLY WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE AS ARTISTS.

          THE NEXT WEEK WE WE’RE ASKED TO BRING BACK OUR BUTCHER PAPER BUT THIS TIME WE HAD TO BRING IN THE THREE PRIMARY COLORS RED, BLUE AND YELLOW IN TEMPERA PAINTS AND THREE HOUSE PAINT BRUSHES.  AND WELL YOU GUEST IT, WE WERE ASKED TO COVER THE PAPER, BUT THIS TIME USING THE THREE COLORS ONLY WITH NO MIXING TO CREATE OTHER COLORS.

          THE TEACHER THEN BEGAN TO CRITIQUE OUR WORK SIMILARLY TO HIS PREVIOUS SESSION EXCEPT HE WAS MUCH MORE CRITICAL THIS TIME.  FORTUNATELY MORE STUDENTS GOT THE MESSAGE AND PAINTED THEIR PAPER MORE DELIBERATELY AND HE FOUND MORE PIECES THAT FIT HIS DESCRIPTION OF ART.

          WELL WHEN HE CAME TO MY WORK THE CRITICISM CONTINUED AND ONCE AGAIN HE FOUND A SECTION THAT HE CUT OUT AND ADMIRED.  I WAS STILL RATHER CONFUSED BUT WHEN HE EXPLAINED WHAT I HAD ACCOMPLISHED, I FINALLY GOT IT AND IT CHANGED MY ART AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION FOREVER.  WHAT HE SAID WAS THAT IT HAD THE SIMILAR BALANCE, STRUCTURE AND TEXTURE QUALITIES AS I HAD IN THE BLACK AND WHITE PAINTING FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK, HOWEVER I ACHIEVED IT ALL WITH THE USE OF COLOR.  NOT ONLY DID THE PAINTING HAVE INTERCHANGEABLE BASES, IT HAD GREAT SHAPES THAT SEEMED TO SYMBOLIZE IN HIS MIND RECENT POLITICAL EVENTS.

          WELL I HAD NO INTENTION TO SYMBOLIZE ANYTHING, BUT HE SAID THAT IT WAS NON-OBJECTIVE ART, MEANING THAT IF THE OBSERVER SAW SOMETHING IN YOUR PAINTING OTHER THAN WHAT YOU INTENDED, THAT’S A GOOD THING BECAUSE IT GAVE THEM SOMETHING TO RELATE TO AND THEY WOULD GENERALLY FIND IT PLEASING.

          THUS BEGAN MY JOURNEY IN THE WORLD OF ABSTRACT, SOMETIMES NON-OBJECTIVE AND ALWAYS DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE ART.  

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