[NewMusic] underwhelmed @ Mills

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

Barry wrote:
I _think_ its the same in visual art, and just depends on the
intent.  Sometimes you have abstract washes of color, or blobs, that
are supposed to stand in for other things, or be references, and that
is abstract.  But sometimes you can have washes of color that are
just washes of color, and aren't meant to be symbols for anything,
that isn't abstract.

- They would both be considered abstract. In the first example, I'd think of
someone like Mondrian or de Kooning. For the second example, Rothko, Bridget
Riley, Ellsworth Kelly, the painters of color fields, stripes, shapes, etc.
Polly's got the right idea in her previous post.


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