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How to produce an abstract image - part one
By: Nina Pancheva-Kirkova

Perhaps the title would be better as the question I have so often heard:
"How can I produce an abstract image?" Within the next few articles I intend to lead you into those dark secret places filled with wonderful tantilizing enigmas, where we will find all the passionate inspiration and the great variety of techniques required for you to be able to produce an astounding work of art worthy of Howard Hodgkin or Mark Rothko (do not worry if you do not know who they are ... you will meet them sometime soon).

So ... how do you do it?
I need to ask you a slightly different question in order for us to move forward upon this slippery creative path.

Why?
Why do you want to produce an abstract?
... here is a list of answers which I would like you to read and then decide which, if any, loosely fit your reason for wanting to do it:
1. No ...>>

"Haut Lieu des rencontres" Painter Hector Toro 2009
By: Toro Hector


Presentation:

"In a search of the direction of the human condition,
I build "setting in image"
Who tries to structure the eye of the cyclone
Who testifies to the chaos of our time"
Beyond the painted images
I try to put in scene situations
(Impregnated of our complex ontemporary life)
Who testify to the feelings and perceptions
Anchors under the human condition.
I await you, spectator
Of these "settings in image",
That you let yourselves meet with these images
And that parallel to the glance
You listened to your small interior voice
Who will know better than all the theories
You to guide in the world which is offered to you...
And perhaps will arrive has itself to see...
the who is in me!
Ego which is in you!
I am obstinated to find a ...>>

Stanley Spencer
By: Nina Pancheva-Kirkova

Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Much of his greatest work depicts Biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion, happening not in the Holy Land but in the small village where he was born and spent most of his life; fellow-villagers frequently stand in for their Gospel counterparts, lending on occasion Christian teachings an eerie immediacy.

Biography

Early life

Spencer was born and spent almost all his life in the Thames-side village of Cookham in Berkshire. His father, William Spencer, was a music teacher. His younger brother, Gilbert Spencer (1892-1979), was a talented painter of landscapes.

From 1908 to 1912, Spencer studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks and others. His contemporaries at the Slade included Dora Carrington, Isaac Rosenberg and David ...>>