Today's Thought On Art: Elements of The Visual Language

Untitled Gray - c Lynda Lehmann

I believe the "logic" of abstract art is purely an internal logic: a logic of the visual language. Some or many elements compete for various positions in the totality of the piece, and those elements can be compared to the elements of spoken language.  Some areas are dominant, like the subject of a sentence.  Some carry the "action," as a verb does.  Other areas of the composition are transitional and create linkage between one area and another, kind of like a preposition.  
This is just my own perception. But in my thinking, I have run into this metaphor again and again.  And I'm fascinated by the language comparison: in this case, with the analogous visual parts making up the analogous (visual) "whole."
Lynda Lehmann c 2013


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Today's Thought On Art: The "Logic" of Abstraction

Frantic Rooster c Lynda Lehmann 2013 - Acrylic on Canvas 

I believe there IS a logic in building the visual experience we refer to as "abstract art."  What is missing is a logical referent to any specific and time-bound element or phase of "reality."  For this reason, abstract art owns a freedom and flux unattainable in obedience to realism.    
Lynda Lehmann c 2013 
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A Novice Desert Mystic

Mystical Light - Lynda Lehmann c 2013

I dance in a translucent dream -- a dream of light and verdure.  Drenched in crystalline sunshine, under high fair-weather clouds that cast their shadows like afterthoughts on distant peaks, I feel the land rolling away from me while it percolates with waves of new life: blossoming and blooming and pouring forth all manner of feathery green after a three-day rain.
I have wandered some Northeast forests and always felt I'd seen plenty of what Beauty there is to behold. But the desert's blazing shades of emerald, amber and gold against distant hills flushed red and glistening in the morning sun, make me ecstatic. Rocky flanks rise under luminescent violet puffs that float above -- coasting, those magnificent clouds that look like great arcs sailing the deep skies -- and I know that I'm in a place that changes me.  The epic fullness of stretching, yawning magnificence in diamond-faceted splendor that unwinds within my view, seems impossible. 
Pointed skeletons of trees and ancient pocked Saguaro Queens, scroungy tufts of yellowed brush and telltale signs of nocturnal burrowing creatures: all cast their net of Intrigue to make me feel spellbound.  I am a novice desert Mystic: I have no need to brush aside the Inklings that make me feel buoyant as those sailing clouds.  I am buoyant with joy at the grandeur of Being.
How can I be so fortunate as to feel I've seen Eden?  The scent, the verdure, the great flowing open space unspoiled by the clatter of urban sprawl, wash my soul.  I stand mesmerized.  And I am content and far more whole than I was yesterday.
All the while, the desert whispers its sacred covenant:  Thou shalt not gain dominion, nor command me. 
And the Garden still grows.

Sea of Beauty - Lynda Lehmann c 2013

Golden Light at Evening-Lynda Lehmann c 2013

Desert Covenant - Lynda Lehmann c 2013

That One Lone Tree - Lynda Lehmann c 2013

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My Favorite New Design: Line Play 17 Vivid Abstract

This is one of my new designs applied to Zazzle's cool products.   You can find more gift ideas with this design at my Watersky Shop and the pillow is available at Pillows by Lynda.  


I hope you like it!  I see a sweeping, dancing landscape in it, and maybe a few faces, too. But that's just me... What do you see here?


 

Line Play 17 Vivid Cheerful Abstract Throw Pillows by PillowsbyLynda
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Line Play 17 Vivid Cheerful Abstract iPhone 5 Covers by WaterSky
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Line Play 17 Vivid Cheerful Abstract Mousepad by WaterSky
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Line Play 17 Vivid Cheerful Abstract Stamp by WaterSky
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"Petallurgy" Digital Floral

 

Petallurgy - Image c Lynda Lehmann

SOLD today at Art.com
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New Messenger Bag at Zazzle Gets "Today's Best" Award

Cool Branching Plant Botanical Messenger Bags by LyndaLehmannFlorals
Browse other Cool Messenger Bags

Come visit my Zazzle shops to see this fun mini-messenger bag and lots of other gift ideas in cool designs and high color!  There's something for everyone, for holidays and most occasions.
When you land on my home page at Watersky you'll see a list of products in the left sidebar, plus a list of my other shops, right there on the home page.  If you enjoy what you see, check back soon, because I'm always adding new designs on new items!
You will find the item below in my shop at Lynda Lehmann Florals.

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"Time Peace" In the Artist of the Month Forum at Red Bubble

A great big "thank you" to Mary Sedici for including my photo "Time Peace" in the November Artist of the Month Forum at Red Bubble!  Thank you again, Mary!

Photo c Lynda Lehmann 
Time Peace

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Compromised Surface

Compromised Surface - Image c 2012 Lynda Lehmann

Wonderful tactile surfaces and textures abound in our everyday reality. Not only do they tell something of the history behind the weathered object, they stand on their own as intriguing abstractions and objects of art.  This particular surface evokes a reflective winter lake landscape for me. What do you see in it, besides scratched and peeling paint and rust?


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