Its been quite a few months since I have posted anything for my Photoshop Friday. For a while I enjoyed making abstracts out of poetry in Phoartry but it became too confining. I’ve returned again to my Zenbrush3 app as its quite relaxing to play with colour and form on a train journey, in the evenings or even before sleep.
Note: Since the Featured Image header distorts the image, I cropped to make a preview but this is the original
Note: I’ve been looking again at the work of O Keefe and Frida Kahlo as well as some of the renowned abstract artists and discovered Hilma Af Klint – now recognised as the first abstract artist, before Kandinsky
What led Klint to abstraction? An interest in invisible forces was widely accepted, rather than being limited to followers of the occult. By the end of the nineteenth century, the natural sciences had already discovered many invisible forces, including infrared light, X-rays and electromagnetic fields. These phenomena presented the arts as well as science with new questions: was it possible to paint not only organisms, but vital forces as well? Not just an orchestra, but music too?
Tate gallery
Photoshop Friday and having some fun with edits and apps!
PoetryPix 
Do you know Arthur Dove? His work often reminds me of O’Keeffe.
I think of Af Klint more as a spiritual artist than an abstract one. Some are also saying that much of the work attributed to her was done by other women in her spiritual circle. More collaborative than individual. That makes a lot of sense. (K)
looked up Dove – so thank you for that. Its a moot point the divide between spiritual and abstract as both tangle with the metaphysical
Yes, that’s probably true. I’m thinking of Alfred Jensen also in that regard.
have another name to catch up with – thank you
His work is really interesting. But I’m always attracted to geometry in art.