Abstraction and Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky, The Liver is the Cock's Comb, 1944

Abstraction comes from the world.  According to Kit White, "The material world impresses upon us images and patterns from the first moment we open our eyes.  Composition, harmony, proportion, light, color, line, texture, mass, and motion are all part of the vocabulary of sight."  For our eyes only send messages to our brains and our brains interpret what we see.  Things we have never seen before causes our brain to interpret them according to what we have already seen, what it is use to.  Either we will reject it or open our minds to new possibilities.  Arshile Gorky took abstract to a new level and had great influence on the art movement called Abstract Expressionism.  Enjoy!