Do you see anything in common with the two paintings below?
Now here's the kicker: Both these paintings were done by the same artist, the late Wolf Kahn. But the reason I chose these was
not that Kahn did them, but that they illustrate one major difference in the way an abstract painter and a realistic painter think: composing a two-dimensional space vs. composing a three-dimensional illusion. Wow!
Painters working in the abstract mode use the visual elements as their subject whereas painters using any of the
realistic modes use images as theirs.
SAME LANGUAGE, DIFFERENT UNIVERSES
Now back to Kahn's two paintings: Brambles and Tangles is not an attempt to actually paint brambles and tangles, but an
organizing of colors, lines and textures into a set of rhythms that ended up feeling like brambles and tangles. But the Red Barns in Ruin is an organizing of colors, lines, shapes and textures into a three-dimensional illusion of red barns in ruin. The same language communicating two entirely different universes.
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