Question 1: If you can operate your cell phone camera, why would you ever turn to PhotoShop and destroy what the “person” behind that little round circle on your iPhone saw? You know there must be a very little artist inside your phone looking out of that little round hole with a paint brush painting very quickly what he saw when you push the “snap photo button” on your phone. 

Question 2: Why did Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) who was a Spanish painter and sculptor create surreal and abstract art when he certainly had the skill to paint as accurately as that little person inside you your iPhone

by Pablo Picasso

Question 3:  Why did enough folks around the world pay enough attend to the art pieces of Pablo to to make him famous?

by Pablo Picasso

Question 4:  Why would I spend any of my limited days on earth messing around creating surreal and abstract “things” from photos that I took or found on the internet? Especially when the photo I started out with was a perfect image of the beautiful art created by God – I am talking of the clouds I asked you to look up and enjoy in the last blog.

As seen out the front window of my car by my iPhone

Answers: Guess what? I can not really answer any of those questions but I sure love pondering each of the questions. I can explain that I sure love PhotoShop for letting me spend wonderful hours at my computer.

I cropped Gods abstract creation to focus on the clouds and flipped the image

cropped and flipped again

I ask God if I could use the above abstract to create my own abstract – She said OK

Explanation:  Playing with PhotoShop at midnight is a substitute for going outside at midnight to check on my horses and cows, or for sitting at a computer developing business software, or falling asleep in front of an old movie, or reading a book on abstract art, or polishing my antique tractor and motorcycle, or  mowing my pasture in the cool after a 100 degree Texas ranch day, or for climbing down the cliffs to see the phosphorescent on the ocean as the waves roll in, or walk in the woods at midnight to see the phosphorescent of foxfire or St. Elmo’s fire .

Next years Explanation: I have done all of those things in the past, but now I think in the Abstract and Surreal.

This is one of my recent abstracts having to do with Gator-aid. You will have to wait to see how this abstract “painting” came about.

 

Back to this year: – Why abstract art? — I got this reason from one of my on-line studies of the subject:

“The pinnacle of painterly achievement isn’t creating something that looks so real it can be mistaken for a photo. That’s the pinnacle of technical skill. You’re duplicating the results cameras give.  

The pinnacle of painterly achievement is going beyond replicating reality. It getting someone to see and feel something they haven’t seen or felt before. To see the familiar afresh, to see and feel more.”

That’s abstract art, in its full range from slightly abstracted to pure abstract.

God as an abstract artist: Now lets look at some of Gods abstract creations – each photo was taken with in moments of the other – God is a fast prolific artist:

The purpose of this little article is to help you look up at the sky, see Gods art and feel something you had not felt before  – see the familiar afresh – see and feel more.

As you seesaw thru life is it real, abstract, or surreal? Did you see and feel afresh?