George Birline*

Color that Sings Day 3

What makes pattern “move?”

Asheville Art MuseumGlenn Hirsch, Instructor

Pattern is a universal language

Evenly space, repeated rhythms

Deborah Oropallo

Staggered, uneven rhythms

Pattern is created by repetition

Repetition creates rhythm

Variety of rhythm

Fast, slow

Simple, complex

Repetition creates rhythm(s)

Simple and regular – sounds like a Buddhist “gong” Complex and uneven – like jazz “bebop”

Left: Josef AlbersRight; Grove Robinson Blanche*

Two rhythms at once:

The singular circle againstthe even repetition of thedashed diagonals

photograph

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More complex ...

photograph

Still more complex ...

Now with organic and geometric shape

Gustave Klimt, 1905

M.C. Escher

Positive and Negative Shape is another kind of rhythm

White shapes on a black background?

Or black shapes on a white background?

Seeing both at the same time creates energy!

Ryan Lee Smith*

Jackson Pollock

Franz Kline

Graham Sutherland

How can we talk about abstraction?

We don’t know what shapes in an abstraction are, but we know the mood they suggest.

The artist evokes feeling with:

-Light (dramatic light)

-Color (varieties of warm/cool)

-Pattern (repetition of shape)

Sarah Sense*

Mark RothkoHelen Frankenthaler

Joseph Fiore*

George Bireline*

Helen Frankenthaller

Frank Lobdell

John Singer Sargent watercolor Joan Mitchell oil

We can get ideas for abstraction by taking

Nature out of context

Jose Bernal*

Use your imagination!

You don’t have to follow the photograph!

No one will see the photo, only your painting.

The photo is only a catalyst to get you dreaming.