[glenduh]

“My 5-year old could do that.”

What people don’t realize is that the best abstract artists have excellent drawing skills, a finely honed sense of composition, and a deep understanding of the workings of color. Most abstract artists have the ability to draw a perfectly rendered rose or a realistic portrait, but they choose not to. Instead they choose to express their creativity by creating a visual experience that is more free and unencumbered by the weight of objects.

[ransomnote]

“Most abstract artists have the ability to draw a perfectly rendered rose...”

I have to disagree with you here. Just as self-publishing has attracted many people who can’t write to become authors, Modern art also attracted, along with gifted artists, a massive hoard of people without any talent at all.

[Ditter]

That is not what I witnessed in art school. The students who grabbed onto abstract art as soon as they could were the ones who could not draw $#^[.

[piasa]

Jackson Pollack was a student of Thomas Hart Benton, IIRC...

[Lazamataz]

What people don’t realize is that the best abstract artists have excellent drawing skills, a finely honed sense of composition, and a deep understanding of the workings of color. Most abstract artists have the ability to draw a perfectly rendered rose or a realistic portrait, but they choose not to. Instead they choose to express their creativity by creating a visual experience that is more free and unencumbered by the weight of objects.

What rot.