"Art observers like to talk about the ‘return of abstract art’, but did it ever really go away? Maybe we’ve just finally grown in to it. At a time when we’re all feeling the effects of information overload, it comes as a relief to find something that demands no more of us than simple instinctive reaction.
Contemporary abstract artists are unbound by the conventions and conflicts of earlier art movements. Perhaps once considered too complex and challenging for mainstream audiences, abstract art has found its groove. This art doesn’t just want to make us think; it also wants us to feel.
The freedom, the experimentation and the lack of rules – abstraction today is everything the world is not. And yet it is in the very essence of that ambiguity that the world is best understood. We live lives full of intangible moments, and the irony is that often nothing that can clarify an intangible thing quite like abstraction.
This is abstraction now."
Carrie McCarthy @ The Cultural Flannery.
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