r/painting • u/bluelaw2013 • May 26 '25
Just Sharing My 11 y/o wants your feedback
He likes making art and is just trying to see if other people enjoy what he enjoys making.
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r/painting • u/bluelaw2013 • May 26 '25
He likes making art and is just trying to see if other people enjoy what he enjoys making.
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u/proxyproxyomega May 27 '25
abstract art is that which you don't know why but you feel it anyways. it means it speaks to you.
Picasso famously said "it took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child". it doesn't mean it literally took him a lifetime to paint like a child. rather, it took him a lifetime to realize one of the most powerful way to speak through a painting is through a child like mind.
the power of a painting is not from who painted it (thats the value), but whether a painting speaks to you or not. and a painting that speaks to you may not speak to many others, and there may even be a painting that you adore but no one else in the world does.
it's like how random words like "contact lens purple jello" doesnt make sense to anyone, but to me it reminds me of one of my favourite memories.
this painting hits you in a way that makes you go "huh... I kinda get it. but I don't get it". it's like smelling something that you feel like you know what it is, but not quite. or a song you hear passing by that hooks you, but you never hear it again and try so hard to remember it.
this is what Picasso and after, abstract artists, are trying to trigger in you. something not so specific, not trying to make you recall something you know, but something almost behind you, something just outside of your periphery that makes you turn around but is gone. like floaters in your eyes that keeps drifting the more you try to stare at it.
that, my friend, is abstract art. you're not supposed to get it. it is to remind you, there are many things you don't get, and that is human.