Color/Space Abstract

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

Space can be flat. Flat patterns of shapes on a flat background.

Space can have depth. The viewer sees into a window in which the shapes “swim.”

Francis Picabia 1913

Francis Picabia 1913

Francis Picabia 1913

Arshile Gorky 1940

Arshile Gorky 1943

Andre Masson 1955

Kandinsky 1940

Avinash Chandra 1963

Philip Guston 1959

Robert Motherwell 1945

3-D forms appear in a space which becomes a stage. (Graham Sutherland 1973)

Shapes can be positive or negative.

Black against white?

White against black?

Both!

Do you see bats or angels?

Both?

Franz Kline, 1956

Space ArchitecturalGlenn Hirsch

1. Window Light

2. Window View (painting within a painting)

3. Complex Spaces

Window light

Vincent Perez

Elmer Bischoff

Elmer Bischoff

Constance Marie Charpentier

Berthe Morisot

Window View(a painting within a painting)

Rogier van der Weyden

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

After Edward Hopper by student Brian Labrie

Claude Monet

Balthus

Student work (Adam Hirsch

Complex SpacesLinear perspective

Bruce McGaw (pastel)

Rembrandt

Piero Della Francesca

Edward Hopper

Edward Hoper

Student work Dan Keith

Student work

Student work Jane Willson

Ana Teresa Fernandez

Ana Teresa Fernandez

Ana Teresa Fernandez

Student work Laura Cook

Student work Jeri Wyrick

Student work Servando Garcia

Smearing, like butter on toast

Flat, minimal and smooth

Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER

Thin LINES

hard edged PATTERNS

Press and lift, use the TENSION of the blade

SCRATCHING and scraping

Change the PRESSURE of your hand, create thick and thin in flowing motion

Eddie Fitzgerald

Van Gogh