mandag 25. mai 2015

Colour field painting

Acrylics on canvas, 40x50 cm, no title.

At the art course I am folloving we are now working on colour fields paintings. It is an abstract style that appeared in the 1940-50ies where the artists explored the colour itself as the object of the paintings.

This painting is very much inspired by the north-american artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011). It may appear simple to paint abstract paintings, but it is much harder than you should think to get the colours and shapes sing together. So, taking a peek at other artists` work helps a lot, at least for me.

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