Essence of Abstract Paintings

Abstract painting is a type of painting where there is no figurative definition to what one can see or interpret from. It is compositionally usually constituted of colour, form, shape, line, dot, distortion, exaggeration, dynamism and so on to convey feelings or concepts. Abstract paintings create worlds of their own with no peripheries in meaning or interpretation; thus, each to their own. The abstract painting processes generally involve transfer of organic feeling, powerful energy, conceptual depth, whether spontaneous creation, or premeditated composition either way intense or light enough to pump into an abstract painting. 

Some abstract paintings have concepts as their base while others don’t. It is a question of what and how the artist feels and what the artist wishes to say or not through the paintings. 

Using elements like shape, form, line, dot, colour and texture, one can explore infinite possibilities with abstract paintings to express anything. Ways to perceive can be as many or more than the ways to create abstract paintings. As abstract (non-figurative) painting provides for further subjectivity and openness than normal, viewers are free to feel and internalize what they feel and look for, therefore what they see and consequentially how they feel about the abstract painting as an experience of their own. 

Using the various elements, abstract paintings can extract the essence of feelings, frames of mind, states of the heart, frames from real domestic life, opulence from elite royal life and anything in the horizonal spectrum of things in between and beyond. 

There is no barrier in terms of representational boundaries for subjects to be looked at objectively in this scheme of things.  For Example : A painting such as 'Guernica', created by Pablo Picasso in 1937.

It is about how that feeling is conveyed in the abstract paintings through the elements with a medium upon a surface by the artist. For example, Symbolism ; Lines can symbolize weight, lightness, beginnings, endings and so on in abstract paintings, while shapes can symbolize building of form, balance, and visual casings for our eyes to travel and compose a feeling through the abstract painting. 

Same way even form is constructed, and the thickness, thinness, heaviness, or lightness would determine visual weight or seamlessness through elemental construct that viewers feel when they see the paintings. For example the understanding and interpretation of Georges Seurat’s ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte’, created between 1884 and 1886. 

Colour is one of the dominant, crucial elements that sets the tangible and intangible tone (mood) for the creation as well as perception of abstract paintings, moreover when they are based on a spontaneous frame of mind, being visually translated onto the surface, or in premeditated concept-based works too. Colour symbolism and colour theory are core skills which can enrich the nature and depth of abstract paintings to delve deeper into the technical and thereby consequential value of the abstract stature of paintings. Colour encompasses and brings all the above stated elements together in abstract paintings whether multi-colored or monochromatic in colour scheme. In abstract paintings, all comes together in harmony or contrast using colour with visual elemental qualities. Even in an abstract painting such as JMW Turner’s ‘Sun Setting over a Lake’, created in 1840, there is so much soul!  

Combining or choosing from all these elements to use in abstract paintings, the ways, and forms in which they will be incorporated and what that will mean for the painting to work, as far as a potential impact is concerned is the skilled, challenging job of an abstract artist. 

An abstract artist (abstract painter) is the artistic force behind the abstract painting. The heart and mind behind constructing the visual composition, qualitative ramifications and conveying the feeling through abstract paintings stays at the core of being an abstract artist. Deciding on painting a feeling or a concept is always a version it. An abstract artist needs to be aware of what the general surface consequences in impact could be, of this version of a feeling or concept or anything through their art going out could be. 

Way forward would be unpredictable entirely, in terms of response. But can be predictable for responses to abstract paintings on a general level if the target audience(s) is(are) studied and backgrounds are of shared, common contexts. 

Abstract artists have an advantage of context to explore with respect to reception and perception of their abstract paintings being taken in the spirit they were created with. Well, the beauty of it is that abstract paintings have no common contexts themselves. Very rarely will we see a commonality there. Each painting holds its own ground in terms of diversity in context, content, perception, memory, impact, everything. The very nature of individuality and singularity in uniqueness is what makes abstract paintings so special. Each painting has its own visual construct, creatively perceived meaning, generally perceived feeling, diversely specific ramifications, and its own intangible world of abstraction. Each person has their own lenses into abstract paintings and that lack of definition or quantitative endlessness is what makes abstract painting a never-ending avenue for both an abstract artist and an art viewer. 

Therefore, abstract paintings have their soul in the elemental nature of their colour, line, shape, form, dot and so on and express what is felt or feel what is expressed thereof. The abstract artist is a channel to make the journey between feeling and abstract painting or concept and abstract painting happen. To make that journey successfully (again subjective definitions), an abstract artist needs to be aware of the abstract paintings’ content, context of presentation, multifold ramifications, and nature of abstraction. There are types of abstraction as well: Optical Abstraction, Geometric Abstraction, Action Abstraction, Colour Field Abstraction, Distorted Abstraction and so much more that an abstract artist must explore with abstract paintings. 

It is about making that journey with authenticity, genuine investment, technical prowess, and undiluted energy for maximized impact not only for now but also for the future, for generations to come. The relationship between the abstract artist and abstract painting is inherently very different from the relationship between viewer or buyer and abstract painting. But it is all one single thread with respect to one abstract painting. The inevitable nature of abstract paintings is to be expressive, honest, transparent, and dynamic with their visual dialogue as well as visual elements. Whether the feeling itself is transparent or mysteriously opaque, that itself is meticulously conveyed depending on the skill and intent of the abstract artist through abstract paintings.

The essence of abstract paintings and being an abstract artist therefore lie in the intricacies of the process at every step of the way. From the intangible maze of things to the tangible translation, the nature if abstract painting itself closes no doors for an artist to fear not getting entry into or exit out of, respectively. Abstract paintings therefore are a wonderful, profound way to express, feel and reflect about everything in our lives. 

About Sparsha by Radhika :

Exploring possibilities through a variety of these artistic doors, at Sparsha by Radhika, we explore possibilities with concept and feeling to embed memorable experiences for our clients’ spaces to be energized in the most effective and special ways with our abstract paintings in Bengaluru. We work Pan India and Abroad. 

Get in touch with Radhika to get going with your very own abstract painting!

Radhika is an abstract artist creating abstract paintings based in Bengaluru, servicing abstract art requirements for residential spaces, corporate offices, factories, and hospitality. 

Check out her abstract paintings here.

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Customization is defined as the process of crafting or modifying something to suit the tastes of an individual or task. It is the personalization of a service, tailoring it to the specific tastes and preferences of an individual or a group. When this is applied to a painting for a client, for the feeling or concept to be painterly made (like tailormade) to suit the customers’ tastes and preferences in a painting of any sort, we call it a customized painting. 

Customized paintings are paintings which are specifically created to suit the brief from the client for a specific wall / space that they have in mind. Customized paintings can be done in multiple ways for multiple people in multiple spaces. The specialty of customization is that it is a collaborative approach to create the energy in a particular space, as it is a specific energy in their specified space. Customized paintings can be of any nature, but here we will be diving into the power of abstract paintings alone. The specificity of requirement ironically provides an interesting trajectory for abstract painting’s unlimited possibilities to energize specific spaces, as the lack of restriction is the main factor to exploit as far as abstract compositions go. 

Spatial dialogue is super important for customized paintings to do their job effectively in a space. There are various levels of perception and a plethora of feelings attached to energizing spaces with a specific kind of customized paintings. One does not fit all for sure in this case. 

In all this subjectivity, abstract paintings accentuate the nuance and sense of harmony in these spaces. With the right amount of heed paid to palettes, lighting, composition and a skilled mix-up, a space could achieve transformational new energies with the right kind of customized paintings. The energy of a space matters so much because it could directly impact our nature of potential to operate in that space, our vibe in that space that could influence the way we get things done too. 

When customized paintings come into your space, your very own space, your personal or professional space, it is more special, more intimate, more personal, more specific, more essential, and deeper in terms of meaning to us, because in many ways it becomes a sacred relationship between the owner, space and the customized painting; it feels more ‘you’ in ‘your space’. The exact kind of energy you want in your space so that you can operate at your fullest is the value. There is a huge commonality in the unlimitedness of human potential and the unlimitedness of abstract customized paintings. We can work around any kind of nuanced, pinpointed energy to bring in the needed vibe / energy in, to transform the space, your space. 

The energy that a customized painting exudes in your space could be directly proportional to the energy pooled into its creating as well as receiving the customized painting. There is an evolution that happens as part of this process when it comes to the customized painting’s energy having a dialogue with the people who inhabit the spaces. The customized paintings travel along with the people who inhabit the spaces throughout their lives, different moods, phases, faces, days, nights, stages of life. The beauty lies in the elegance of their subjectivity; that each one feels differently towards the customized painting at different times, at different stages, under different circumstances in the same spaces. Today, I could feel one way and you might feel another way, same space, same painting. Tomorrow, the same me may come back feeling another way and you might feel a totally different way, same space, same painting. The infinite nature of individual subjectivity in relation to circumstantial substance and situational impact is what holds a customized painting’s fundamental energies in robust, good spirit to be there irrespective throughout. That is the profound power of customized paintings. To empower, enable and enrich your life!

The openness that the nature of abstract painting offers ties in just right with the inherent nature of customized paintings as there is a beautiful oxymoron of the widest range of things to paint about in the most minutely specific ways possible which is the exotic, profound mix an abstract artist needs to service client requirements of any kind, whether categorically or not. The palettes of the space, existing energy, colors, light, frames, material and medium upon surface are basic parameters but where the process deepens is with the approach to concept, feeling, manifestation and visual translation of that which is verbally describable or writeable into the realms of the visual language with abstract customized paintings. 

The process is rather magical for both the Creator and Client. A journey of visualization, of visual translation, of manifestation, of perception and discovery. The approach taken is most important as that is directly impactful on how much of a fit the customized painting is going to be in the space. The amount of value that the customized painting is going to add in your space is going to be directly affected by the approach taken in the first place to start creating it for the particular space with a specific energy you want to bring in, in the most effective, memorable, lasting way for a transformation to take place as an experience. 

Customizing a painting is therefore a very keen, intimate, personal, sensitive, internal, reflective, sacred, visceral, and magical process for both Creator and Client. An amalgamation of multiple factors at place that multiply to form the most affective multiples of done with a suited appropriate approach to the required specificity, taste, preference, and particulars. A plurality of sensitivities engages with a singular sensibility to take on the specifics in general. The variety of sensitivities are catered to, to suit the particulars through a singular creative mind working with the internal intuition and instinct to generate empathy. Multiple factors such as skill, technical expertise, training, practice, experience, and creative composition are tools to cater to the fragility of the sensitivities involved thereof.

Essential it is, to understand thus that the nature of customized paintings is one that requires meticulous attention with respect to meaning and construct . One that requires immense concentration to craft a magical evolution of a creation to specifically and most satisfactorily fulfill the Client’s want and requirement to make the space feel better than they dreamt of in it. The profound capability which is also a hidden ability of customized paintings therefore lies not only in what they are to the Client, but moreover, what they are not to the Client – what they don’t want in their space. A variety of what you want in your space and none of what you don’t want in your space.

About Sparsha by Radhika :

Exploring possibilities through a variety of these energies and spaces, at Sparsha by Radhika, we explore possibilities with concept and feeling to embed memorable experiences for our clients’ spaces to be energized in the most effective and special ways with our meticulously created customized paintings in Bengaluru. We work Pan India and Abroad. 

Get in touch with Radhika to get going with your very own customized painting!

Radhika is an abstract artist specializing in customized paintings based in Bengaluru, servicing customized art requirements for residential spaces, corporate offices, factories, and hospitality. 

Check out her abstract paintings here.

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