So here’s me too back on the blog after the Christmas festivities. The ice on the road at my parents in law was thick enough to bring out two Mancester ice hockey team players out in full team kit with hockey sticks and and pucks, while everyone else slithered about on foot or on wheels. The dog was impervious to the cold and of course our valiant attempts at recall.
I took a break but managed to read up a little on Paul Klee.
“In everyday language abstraction refers to the proess by which one draws a generalized notion or formula from the particularities of real experience. … But in visual art this is not the meaning of abstraction … Klee was the first artist to point out that for the painter the meaning of abstraction lay in the opposite direction to the intellectual effort of abstracting: it is not an end but the beginning.” (Making Visible, Bridget Riley in Paul Klee, The Nature of Creation, Hayward Gallery Catalogue)
