While The Neon Demon hammers home the visual splendor to perfection, the plot does venture into
a bit of abstract thinking, forcing the viewer to start toying with metaphors and deeper themes.
Not exact matches
A conscious field plus its object as felt or
thought of plus an attitude towards the object plus the sense
of a self to whom the attitude belongs — such a concrete
bit of personal experience may be a small
bit, but it is a solid
bit as long as it lasts; not hollow, not a mere
abstract element
of experience, such as the «object» is when taken all alone.
its ok to
think at the start
of the season in the
abstract «oh, its ok: he'll come on for a
bit when we are short» versus when the reality actually hits.
That might sound a
bit abstract but
think of it this way... in most first person shooters you move using the keyboard and have a singular point
of «focus» or targeting which is defined by mouse movement.
I don't
think it is necessary to frame this as nostalgic or an historical allusion, rather it seems to take up a
bit of the technology
of painting that most
abstract painting had thrown out.
I
think he covers the whole spectrum —
of paintings that only work because they are recognisable as landscapes («Fen Dyke no. 3» 1968), paintings that work and appear to be completely
abstract («Spanish Chestnut, Purple Floor» 1964, «Summer Duckweed» 1975), paintings with an almost gratuitous
bit of figuration (successfully) thrown in («Summer Courtyard» 1955) and paintings where the figuration is apparent but only secondary and not necessary to the success
of the painting («Boat and Foliage in Five Chords no. 1» 1970).
One
of the problems is that when works like Heilmanns receive praise for their wit and ingenuity, it downgrades the expectations and ambitions
of other
abstract artists; so that now, any number
of painters
think that slapping a few lines and shapes around on a canvas, in a manner that vaguely represents something or other — place, memory, feeling, whatever — constitutes an
abstract painting, in which it is the very ambiguity
of the work which constituting the «
abstract»
bit.
If I try to get rid
of that boaty
bit, then to a certain extent I have already been hijacked by figurative
thinking (in particular, my concept
of what an
abstract painting should look like) and the abstractness
of my work has already been compromised.
Thinking about the statements in the
abstract it sounds a
bit like you guys just pulled the boundary conditions for this project out
of your... ah, well, you know.