WEEK 13
Artists in attendance 11
Is the idea of abstraction more difficult to grasp when you are over 60? Through taking part in these workshops the artists have acknowledged that there is skill in abstraction, they have seen that it is not easy to just “slosh paint on a canvas” they are learning a new way of looking and seeing and being freed from the copying world, and are having to use their imaginations. From their comments it seems frivolous to them to create an image that is directly from their minds and “means nothing to the viewer”. This week we reviewed each others work, through doing this the artists learnt that their images do mean something to the viewer. “ooo it reminds me of a water fall in a fairy tale” “it looks like a city in the mist and “it looks like a food preparation area” were some of the things people said. The artists were surprised that there were so many different ideas that came from their images.
The next time the artists are in an art gallery will they skip past an abstract piece or will they stop to look?
When the abstract workshops are over will they return to painting watercolour trees?
