Not exact matches
BB: I consider myself at the moment an abstract painter enthralled with observational painting, but one issue I have with post-war and contemporary
figurative painting is how overbearing the «
abstraction» can be
sometimes.
He sees
abstraction as a form of gesture or geometry, in a superimposed position,
sometimes combined or mixed with new
figurative shapes.
In the same way that Willem deKooning's
abstractions contained
figurative elements (
sometimes with bizarre results), until almost the end of his life, there has been a transitional period with Aho's
abstractions in which vignettes of landscape elements could still be discerned among the dabs and slashes and undefined forms.