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stereobooster • Edited

I don't see any trolling here.

Abstraction in art is essentially the same process as I described for CS. It is about removing details.

Image from "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art" by Scott McCloud.

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Jen Chan

Abstract art by European modernists like Joseph Albers and Piet Mondrian we're insanely mathy and rule based. Basically an exercise in seeing how far you could divide and routinely paint a grid. I wouldn't want to be them.

Abstract expressionism like Jackson Pollock was all about expressing what he thought was freedom, chance and randomness.
Both are dubbed "abstract" but operate on different implementations lol.

Living artist with no painting skills just has to pitch in. Comment irrelevant but tangentially relevant, on some abstract plane.