Finger painting

I think that this assignment was a lot harder than I charted it out to be. With the concept of trying to be abstract as the main goal, I tried to keep an empty mind and have no plan when beginning, but it seemed like every time that I thought about it, new ideas would form and I would try to categorize it into some sort of representational art. In the end, I had to turn some music on and just try and focus on that while painting. The result ended in a sort of segregated colors that sort of meld together on the edges.

Trying to ensure that I had no pre-planned subject definitely proved to be the hardest part of the painting process, but once I began, I found it to be relaxing, I could just focus on making nice colors, without having to spend too much effort trying to fulfill any requirements.

This painting, and abstract painting in general I think are meant not to depict a specific thing to every viewer, like representational painting would, but rather it subconsciously forces the viewer to introspect, and instill meaning that is unique to each observer. In regard to other paintings that I’ve seen, I think it isn’t doing the art justice to compare and contrast one to another; each has their own purpose and tries to convince a viewer of something, whether it be unique or uniform.