Abstract in black and white (influenced by Franz Kline)

Abstract in White

Abstract 315

Gallery Series 2/1

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise this image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, 8 feet x 8 feet) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series I/20

Please read the preface to Gallery Series I/15 (https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/gallery-series-i15/) to more fully understand the image below:

Gallery Series I/20

Under the influence of Jackson Pollock

Click to enlarge

While processing   Wave Patterns  (https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/wave-patterns/) it occurred to me that the central section of the exploding wave shared something of the energy and accidental patterning characteristic of some of Jackson Pollock’s work.  I have tried to capture this in the above image.

Gallery Series I/18

Please read the preface to Gallery Series I/15 (https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/gallery-series-i15/) to more fully understand the image below:

Gallery Series I/18

Gallery Series I/17

Please read the preface to Gallery Series I/15 (https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/gallery-series-i15/) to more fully understand the image below:

Gallery Series I/17

Gallery Series I/16

Please read the preface to Gallery Series I/15 (https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/gallery-series-i15/) to more fully understand the image below:

 

Gallery Series I/16

Gallery Series I/15

The next few images in Gallery Series I have been ‘inspired’ by the works of Barnett Newman.  Like Clyfford Still, Newman was a colour field painter and, like Still, he too worked on very large canvasses.  His paintings are characterized by flat fields of a single colour broken by isolated, thin (and usually) vertical stripes known as ‘Newman’s ‘zips’.

Newman was a deeply spiritual man and hoped to draw the viewer into his paintings to experience his search of  ‘the sublime’.  For him, the stripes represented ‘streaks of light’  – flashes of cosmic light.  The art critic Robert Cumming encourages viewers to imagine drawing aside the blocks of colour to slowly reveal an expanding opening into an infinite space.

I have had these thoughts in mind when creating this group of images, although I have interpreted the concept quite freely and with decidedly more modest ambitions!

As with the earlier images, I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, 14 feet x 8 feet) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

Gallery Series I/15

Gallery Series I/14

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, 8 feet x 8 feet) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series I/14

Gallery Series I/13

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, 8 feet x 8 feet) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series I/13

Gallery Series I/12

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, 8 feet x 8 feet) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

 

Gallery Series I/12

Gallery Series I/11

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas  (say 8 feet x 8 feet)  on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

 

Gallery Series I/11

 

Gallery Series I/10

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, 9 feet x 9 feet) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series I/10

Gallery Series I/9

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, 9 feet x six feet) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series  I/9

Gallery Series I/8

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, approximately, 8 feet square) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series I/8

Gallery Series I/7

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas  (say, approximately, 8 feet x  5 feet)  on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series I/7

Gallery Series I/6

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.

(Please see also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series I/6

Gallery Series I/4

I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

(See also the post introducing the series  https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/introducing-the-gallery-series/)

Gallery Series I/4