I hope all and any who are reading this did have a wonderful season of joy.
A reader asked me how I know when a painting is done in reference to the last post on the evolution of that abstract painting. A good question that I have been pondering in odd moments ever since. It was assumed that I had a vision/image of what I wanted the end point to be. My process with a painting that is abstract or nonobjective is more of a goal with some self imposed decisions to narrow the choices and improve the odds of a positive result. In the last case I was using a square format, and I wanted to abstract an image of a landscape or a piece of it into a painting. I did not want to use a cruciform design or have a division that could read as horizon. The color yellow would be dominate because it was the color of the object I started with and I liked it. I chose my other colors to enrich and enliven the yellows. I did not write all of this down but I should have and I am free to change my mind or the goals for a painting if something more interesting happens while I'm painting. I wanted the end result to be something I had not seen before and that is exciting/interesting to look at, and could make a viewer wonder while making their own connections. Here is the end result again:
If you rotate the image 90 clockwise the yellow shape would be oriented how I first saw it. The yellow leads you into the picture plane while the blues and other shapes flatten the sense of space.
I hope this wasn't over thinking the answer.
The goals and endpoints of image driven paintings are easier to see and are some what defined by the "style" of the painting- realist, impressionist,tonalist, expressionist portraiture etc.
More later, and thanks for looking.
Bruce
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