Observing Abstraction / Inventing Subject

Observing Abstraction; Inventing Subject

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Ken Kewley

This workshop is an exploration of pure abstraction and the abstraction in representation through collage. We will draw, paint and construct by means of collage. The statements, ‘You cannot make it up’ and ‘You must make it up’ are both true. We must let both guide us. What we put down on our paper are real things that we can adjust, just as we pose the model, move through the landscape, or set up a still life. It is this abstraction that we must adjust if we are working purely abstractly or if we are working from life. On day one, the class will attempt to make a thousand abstract collages. On day two and three, our abstractions will be reconfigured into still lifes, landscapes and figures without losing the abstraction, all on a path away from copying and rendering towards composing a more exciting and ultimately more real picture of what we find beautiful in the world.

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