#non objective

[cryrabbitcry]

Chivito

11x14” mixed media

R.A.Young 2024

#r.a.young animism #painter on tumblr #r.a.young #artists on tumblr #artist on tumblr #impasto #middens #non objective #animism #castingspellsandshit

[cyndee51]

Interior design with color field art by C.Millichamp

#abstract art #abstract expressionism #contemporary art #abstract #mark making #paper #color field painting #non representational #non objective #interiors #interior design #room art

[optikes]

an Australian painter in the streets of New York...

John Firth-Smith (born 1943) Australia

1 White Street # 3 (1982) acrylic on stretched 300gsm rag paper, 104cm x 104cm

2 Black Street # 27 (1982) pulp paper and mixed media, 35cm x 35cm

3 Place, Orientation and Navigation (1983) oil on linen 305.0 x 335.5 cm

4 Winter Rounds (1982)

5-7 the artist connecting dots & lines in New York

8 the artist’s photo-documentation of line and shape on New York streets

9 Marshall Islands stick chart

A   Professor Peter James Smith   from  menziesartbrands.com

In 1981 John Firth-Smith travelled to New York to experience the city, to paint there as a local and allow the powerful New York art scene to wash over him. It was a time in the city (that the writer experienced first-hand) when graffiti clogged West Broadway and adorned the walls of the cross-town subway platforms. The locals were producing abstract paintings that had active, brushy surfaces. The curator Barbara Rose, in 1979, produced a show of such work called American Painting: The Eighties that looked like Abstract Expressionism with a college education, and heralded the rise of art stars Susan Rothenberg (1945- ) and Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007). It was the perfect time and place for Firth-Smith’s painterly surfaces to evolve.

From his studio on 20th Street, Firth-Smith could look down on the first winter snows in the city. In the early morning the snow appeared as a soft white blanket, a shroud that covered everything, but later in the day it was stained and marked by the black tracks of car tyres and the footfalls of passers-by. He became fascinated by the ethereal gothic nature of what he saw: steaming ventilators were often to be found in the middle of busy streets, their smoke stacks rising through the traffic, their warmth contradicting the presence of winter snow and sludge. Such is the sensibility that is vividly painted in Winter Rounds 1982, an attractively-proportioned canvas that effortlessly supports the New York dynamic.

Winter Rounds 1982, is ingrained with the gritty, wintry ambience of the city. Like schematised patterns taken from a subway map, or a diagram drawn in an attempt at directing a stranger, there is a frenetic congested intensity in the work that is broken by dots and splashes of colour.’

This painting shows Firth-Smith’s familiar arabesque line, sweeping through the rising red veils of smoke and graffiti, to challenge the gridded infrastructure of the city. Notions of infrastructure usually revolve around trains, bridges, roads and buildings; however with a different kind of infrastructure in mind, the artist deploys a series of connected straight lines and dots to the heart of his picture. In his monograph on Firth-Smith, writer Gavin Wilson describes how the artist had become fascinated with the Victorian cast iron manhole covers found at street level. They often had elaborate decorative surfaces and had holes drilled through them. Firth-Smith tied small weights to the ends of strings, and dropped the weights down the holes making the strings pull tight between the holes; so the sequences of dots and connected lines were born. He later photographed these microcosms, and like an industrial espionage operative, these found their way into his painting process. Ironically, these patterns are reminiscent of stick charts from the Marshall Islands – structures formed by tying small sticks in a gridded pattern to represent the sea, with shells knotted at the intersections to represent the locations of islands. The sea is never far away from the artist’s concerns.

Only in New York could Firth-Smith have had such fertile exposure to the early stages of neo-expressionism. He embraced many deterministic methods of applying paint with drawn lines and dots, then overpainting, then re-positioning more gridded lines and dots; but these methods always relied on chance and randomness. He painted and repainted layer upon layer. ‘The effaced surfaces of the completed work were like a palimpsest, leaving only the faintest trace of his earlier marks.’  It is the beauty of those effaced surfaces that captures the imagination with their daring trails of snow-lines, and the monochrome expanse of restless white.

search @ www.khanacademy.org    www.smithsonianmag.com

#firth-smith #non objective #abstraction #non figurative #structural frame #marshall islands #stick chart #pacific

[doingitfortheexposure]

In addition to photography, I also enjoy messing around with non-objective art. As a child, I adored making watercolor washes. These days, I have a few art apps on my tablet.

The first image was digitally painted in the Art Set app, then imported into Affinity Photo where I modified it using layers, blending modes, and filters.

Images by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

#creative commons #digital painting #non objective #background image #free images #affinity photo #art set 4

[clockworkslick]

wall sigils

#art #my art #digital art #sketch #drawing #ibis paint x #ibis paint art #geometric #geometric art #abstract art #abstract #non representational #non objective

[chantherouxarts]

backgrounds for my collabouratons with travis brown August 3 2023

#abstraction #abstract #art #colours #colourful #non objective #background #collaboration #painting #paintings #drip #drips #chaos #order #chaos and order #artists on tumblr

[deadmomjokes]

PSA: tomatoes are not spicy. Tomatoes and tomato products should not be spicy. Pizza sauce isn't inherently spicy. Tomato-based pasta sauce is not spicy. Ketchup is NOT spicy.

If tomatoes are spicy, you have an allergy to tomatoes.

This announcement brought to you by my almost 29-year-old husband learning for the first time in his 2.8 decades of putting food products into his mouth that spaghetti and saucy pizza aren't spicy foods

#his amazement at our daughter eating spaghetti willingly #when apparently he's been suffering in silence over there his whole life #and i'm like ???? #and he's like ''you didn't make this spicy?'' #NO #NO I DID NOT #and he just blue screens for a minute #and i'm like YOU THINK SPAGHETTI IS SPICY??? #and he's all ''yeah that's why i prefer we don't have it very often'' #the absolute SHOCK i tell you #turns out he hates ketchup because it's spicy and he never understood why people wanted to dip fries in spicy sauce #i was like ''DUDE ketchup is supposed to be sweet and maybe a touch tangy but also cool and refreshing'' #and he's like ''SWEET?????'' #so uh yeah turns out dude's allergic to tomatoes and he just assumed everyone had a way higher spice tolerance than him #cuz he can find ''non spicy'' food too hot #and it's just all tomato based stuff and we never thought to connect the dots #mild salsa? too spicy. IT'S THE TOMATOES. #tacos? too spicy even at baby heat levels. IT'S THE TOMATOES. #prefers alfredo to marinara despite alfredo having objectively more pepper in it than marinara #he thought his spice tolerance was just so wimpy that my 'normal' was too spicy for him #so he's just been dealing with 1-3 meals a week being spicy to him our entire marriage WITHOUT SAYING A WORD #because he didn't want to offend me with his wimpy palate #IT'S THE TOMATOES #it's always been the gosh darn tomatoes

[pinchidesign]

(via Non objective art 05 - red and white Zipper Pouch by PinchiDesign)

#findyourthing #redbubble #zipper pouch #red and white #pinchidesign #non objective #modern art #abstraction #unique style

[colsandjoints]

Andante, Rudolf Bauer.

#non objective #der sturm #guggenheim #bauer

[cryrabbitcry]

Tillery

Mixed media/@11”x14

R.A.Young 2024

#painter on tumblr #r.a.young animism #artists on tumblr #r.a.young #artist on tumblr #middens #impasto #non objective #animism #castingspellsandshit

[cyndee51]

Artist painted color field - C.Millichamp

#abstract art #abstract expressionism #contemporary art #abstract #mark making #paper #color field painting #analog #non objective

[jazzberiperks]

hi tumblr osc my childhood show came back to me..

#THEM #i love them #i love them so much #paintbrush #ii paintbrush #inanimate insanity #ii #ii fanart #osc #paintbrush ii #paintbrush inanimate insanity #inanimate insanity fanart #inanimate object #non binary #art #artists on tumblr #object shows #object show art #osc art #character art #ii humanized #messy sketchy render #perkie paint

[tiliman2]

Lemme know if you’d like to buy this rare original painting 🖼

#non objective #original art #paiting #oil painting #jackson pollock #canvas #artist unknown #bay area #san francisco #bayarea #norcal #northern california #sonoma county #my painting

[mosssik]

Olga Rozanova (Russian, 1887–1918) —Non-objective Composition (1917)

Oil on canvas, 66×83cm

style: suprematism

The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

#olga rozanova #rozanova #russian artist #russian art #russian painter #artwork #traditional art #art #painting #paint #oil paint #oil on canvas #oil #suprematism #non objective composition #non objective

[clockworkslick]

organic shapes in colors

#art #my art #digital art #sketch #drawing #photoshop #organic shapes #organic art #abstract art #non objective #non representational

[thesherrinfordfacility]

unhinged that gabriel had such a heartbreaking reaction to beelzebub giving him something because noone had given him anything before, because now it's got me thinking about angels existing in an environment and under a regime where you don't really have anything to call your own - all your own. so what potentially did crowley first give to aziraphale to call his own and what book do you think it was

#half arsed meta bc i dont necessarily subscribe to this in any seriousness #and crowley has done A Lot of non material things for aziraphale - given him gifts that arent necessarily objects #but this thought worm wouldn't leave #good omens