Variety is the spice of life, and art. All art serves a common purpose, that is, to connect with people. The first connection is with the artist themself, and then with an audience such at an art gallery, show, or on line (a blog!). I was thinking the other day, all the ways that art connects with a viewer. When my parents look at the Montreal landscapes especially from NDG and Verdun, they feel connected to the subject matter- an artistic image from 2020 brings back memories from more than 50 years ago. And the paintings are not too bad either! But an abstract painting, like the one in this blog, it can not bring back memories or anything like that, it is a pure visual stimulation (abstract). My doodleism paintings are somewhere in between abstraction and realism, but still from my imagination. Those paintings have lots of ideas in them which may make people think, like a collage of ideas and puzzle pieces. Sometimes I do concept art, like
Blockheads and Bright Ideas, which are sort of like a political cartoon, or a meme. Each type of image connects with viewers in a different way, I know from experience different people will connect with different aspects- idea, visual, thought, memory.
9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, 2020
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