As loyal JSVB readers know, the thirteenth day of every month is Ungood Art Day, where I feature one of my failed attempts at art. Today is the final Ungood Art Day of 2012, and if we are lucky and the world as we know it is destroyed when the Mayan calendar runs out in a few days, then this might just be the final Ungood Art Day for human civilization. Maybe it will survive as a transmission beamed out into the eternal reaches of space, echoing among the halls of the stars, and bemusing alien galaxies at the end of time.
This is a picture of a naked girl. I am fairly sure that the model in JSVB Post #356 is the same as the one who posed for this piece, "Naked Abstraction". Please click here to see the model.
Most good abstract artists fall into two categories. The first belong to a set of accomplished artists who discover in their own work persistent symbols and semiotics of design. Gradually, these symbols work out towards creating a new visual vocabulary for that artist. Pablo Picasso was such an artist. The other category belongs to artists who make a leap into abstract design through a radical change in approach to media, which in turn creates a new aesthetic. Jackson Pollock is a good example.
A third category of abstract art, and by far the largest category in my opinion, belongs to the realm of pure crap. "Naked Abstraction" is exactly that piece. Botched shading, unsubtle shapes, sophomoronic line quality, and the general misuse of a perfectly good life drawing model all add up to create the all-too-familiar artistic message, "What The Hell Am I Doing!?".
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