An awful lot of creative and skilled, but uneducated, people seem to think ‘abstract’ means ‘obscure’: that if you paint or photograph something in a way that makes it look distorted or difficult to see what it is then it’s abstract. It’s not. Picasso said — and I’m not going to argue with HIM — that abstract art is not representational. Monty has it right!
An awful lot of creative and skilled, but uneducated, people seem to think ‘abstract’ means ‘obscure’: that if you paint or photograph something in a way that makes it look distorted or difficult to see what it is then it’s abstract. It’s not. Picasso said — and I’m not going to argue with HIM — that abstract art is not representational. Monty has it right!