Broadly abstraction refers to taking an idea or feeling and breaking it apart in some way (trasnsposition, superimposition, fragmentation, inversion, mirroring,, substitution) – at some point it becomes something else – something totally abstract. It has its own logic apart from its real world counterpart – it is pure, pure pure.

I said:

“this is tame and “abstract” only in the sense that it is geometric.”

In that sense I’m saying the intitial feeling (excitement? Joy? Mystery?) is tame (meaning tepid, attenuated and without real feeling) and the geometry ( a white cube reference to gallery/interior space?)is a lame idea on par with Coke drinking polar bears but not as interesting as the geico caveman commercials.

That the work is geometric, i argue, does not make it “abstract” in the sense that abstraction embodies or “expresses” some meaning.

If one weere to come up with a definition of the difference between art and design one might say design is is EMPTY of meaning (PURE design).

I dont see any other way to logicly separate art and design.

And its a false distinction to boot.

Broadly abstraction refers to taking an idea or feeling and breaking it apart in some way (trasnsposition, superimposition, fragmentation, inversion, mirroring,, substitution) – at some point it becomes something else – something totally abstract. It has its own logic apart from its real world counterpart – it is pure, pure pure.

I said:

“this is tame and “abstract” only in the sense that it is geometric.”

In that sense I’m saying the intitial feeling (excitement? Joy? Mystery?) is tame (meaning tepid, attenuated and without real feeling) and the geometry ( a white cube reference to gallery/interior space?)is a lame idea on par with Coke drinking polar bears but not as interesting as the geico caveman commercials.

That the work is geometric, i argue, does not make it “abstract” in the sense that abstraction embodies or “expresses” some meaning.

If one weere to come up with a definition of the difference between art and design one might say design is is EMPTY of meaning (PURE design).

I dont see any other way to logicly separate art and design.

And its a false distinction to boot.

Broadly abstraction refers to taking an idea or feeling and breaking it apart in some way (trasnsposition, superimposition, fragmentation, inversion, mirroring,, substitution) – at some point it becomes something else – something totally abstract. It has its own logic apart from its real world counterpart – it is pure, pure pure.

I said:

“this is tame and “abstract” only in the sense that it is geometric.”

In that sense I’m saying the intitial feeling (excitement? Joy? Mystery?) is tame (meaning tepid, attenuated and without real feeling) and the geometry ( a white cube reference to gallery/interior space?)is a lame idea on par with Coke drinking polar bears but not as interesting as the geico caveman commercials.

That the work is geometric, i argue, does not make it “abstract” in the sense that abstraction embodies or “expresses” some meaning.

If one weere to come up with a definition of the difference between art and design one might say design is is EMPTY of meaning (PURE design).

I dont see any other way to logicly separate art and design.

And its a false distinction to boot.