Friday, January 25, 2013
ABSTRACT ART by Errol Moo Young Flyer#3
Sunday, January 20, 2013
The Dailai Lama - Quotes on Personal Strength
The Dailai Lama - Quotes on Personal Strength Some quotes full of wisdom and truth.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
E. Moo Young's Abstract Art Flyer #2
I'm reminded of an observation on Paul Klee- he worked as if no art existed before and he started from scratch, making the work 'render visible'. That is, the work is in the paper and he had to work to bring it out, to make it visible. So I'm always excited by what is to come each time I approach the paper and start working. What new form, technique or meaning can I bring in to existence. The approach is quite different each time and the results are, I think, unique.
Above are some of my output.
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
E. Moo Young flyer #1
Here's a view of a flyer I'm planning to send out to potential buyers, galleries, companies and collectors.
Any comments will be welcomed. I'm working on new works almost daily and will be sending updates when I can. www.http//yessy.com/emooyoung
Friday, July 27, 2012
10 Perplexing Quotes to Better Understand Abstract Art
To better understand and appreciate the variations and complexities Abstract Art, I came across these unexpected quotes:
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. (Piet Mondrian)
All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color. (Piet Mondrian)
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort. (Piet Mondrian)
Painting abstract expressionistic works are the most challenging as they entail all the elements of a first class realistic piece of work, namely composition, values, etc. which need to be addressed... (Adrienne Moore)
All art is an abstraction to some degree. (Henry Moore)
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. (Robert Motherwell)
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. (Robert Motherwell)
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. (Robert Motherwell)
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all. (Robert Motherwell)
For some, abstract art can be a burden... as even before one can draw a conscious decision as to what is being seen, physiological challenges are being made and processed by the eye and brain, reconstructing the shapes into patterns of recognizable objects. (Robert Lee Munoz)
Any comments? Do these quotes help you understand, more clearly, Abstract Art?
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. (Piet Mondrian)
All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color. (Piet Mondrian)
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort. (Piet Mondrian)
Painting abstract expressionistic works are the most challenging as they entail all the elements of a first class realistic piece of work, namely composition, values, etc. which need to be addressed... (Adrienne Moore)
All art is an abstraction to some degree. (Henry Moore)
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. (Robert Motherwell)
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. (Robert Motherwell)
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. (Robert Motherwell)
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all. (Robert Motherwell)
For some, abstract art can be a burden... as even before one can draw a conscious decision as to what is being seen, physiological challenges are being made and processed by the eye and brain, reconstructing the shapes into patterns of recognizable objects. (Robert Lee Munoz)
Any comments? Do these quotes help you understand, more clearly, Abstract Art?
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Surprising Quotes from Picasso
There's little doubt that Picasso was the greatest artist of the 20th century.
Many books have been written about him, many interpretations about his art and what it meant. The various styles, the symbolism and the views of the critics in the last 100 years. But his thought on art are not too well known. Here are 5 quotes that contradict a lot of what's been written... by the artist himself.
They were taken from the book - Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 Genius of the Century. published by Benedikt Taschen.
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality. There’s no danger then, anyway, because the idea of the object will have left an indelible mark.It is what started the artist off, excited his ideas,and stirred up his emotions. Ideas and emotions eventually end up as prisoners in his work. Whatever they do, they can’t escape from the picture. They form an integral part of it, even when their presence is no longer discernible. Whether he likes it or not, man is the instrument of nature.” PICASSO
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the the songs of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can’t explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”
PICASSO
“ What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or has a lyre at every mood of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary! He is at the same time a political being, constantly alive to world events that can be heart-rending, fiery or happy, and he responds to them with his whole being. How could he possibly not show any interest in other people but put on an ivory indifference and detach himself from the life which he has received so abundantly? No, painting was not invented to decorate houses. It is an instrument of war for attack and defence against the enemy.”
PICASSO
“ The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it will always remain in the present. I have never had time to for the idea of searching. Whenever I have wanted to express something, I have done so without thinking of the past or the future. I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I have wanted to say something, I have said it in such a way as I believed I had to. Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression.This does not imply either evolution or progress, but is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”
PICASSO
“ Is there anything more dangerous than being understood? All the more so, as there is no such thing. You are always misunderstood. You think you aren’t lonely, but in actual fact you are even more lonely.”
“ The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it - except from our own works. I have a horror of copying myself. But when I am shown a portfolio of old drawings, for instance, I have no qualms about taking anything I want from them.
PICASSO
Many books have been written about him, many interpretations about his art and what it meant. The various styles, the symbolism and the views of the critics in the last 100 years. But his thought on art are not too well known. Here are 5 quotes that contradict a lot of what's been written... by the artist himself.
They were taken from the book - Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 Genius of the Century. published by Benedikt Taschen.
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality. There’s no danger then, anyway, because the idea of the object will have left an indelible mark.It is what started the artist off, excited his ideas,and stirred up his emotions. Ideas and emotions eventually end up as prisoners in his work. Whatever they do, they can’t escape from the picture. They form an integral part of it, even when their presence is no longer discernible. Whether he likes it or not, man is the instrument of nature.” PICASSO
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the the songs of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can’t explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”
PICASSO
“ What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or has a lyre at every mood of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary! He is at the same time a political being, constantly alive to world events that can be heart-rending, fiery or happy, and he responds to them with his whole being. How could he possibly not show any interest in other people but put on an ivory indifference and detach himself from the life which he has received so abundantly? No, painting was not invented to decorate houses. It is an instrument of war for attack and defence against the enemy.”
PICASSO
“ The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it will always remain in the present. I have never had time to for the idea of searching. Whenever I have wanted to express something, I have done so without thinking of the past or the future. I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I have wanted to say something, I have said it in such a way as I believed I had to. Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression.This does not imply either evolution or progress, but is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”
PICASSO
“ Is there anything more dangerous than being understood? All the more so, as there is no such thing. You are always misunderstood. You think you aren’t lonely, but in actual fact you are even more lonely.”
“ The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it - except from our own works. I have a horror of copying myself. But when I am shown a portfolio of old drawings, for instance, I have no qualms about taking anything I want from them.
PICASSO
Monday, April 16, 2012
Errol Moo Young - "Exploring Automatic Drawings # 2"
Exploring Automatic Drawings 16 - 30
Notes from Robert Motherwell
“What Art Holds”
Mary Ann Caws
From his reading of Anton Ehrenzweigh’s
Psychoanalysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing: An introduction to a theory of Unconscious Perception”, Motherwell took ammunition for his views about automatic scribblings or doodling as indicative of something below the normal and expected surface. Ehrenzweigh emphasizes the way in which the human psychology, longing for a smooth, understandable gestalt, is likely to “cover up and smooth out symbolic forms” in order to restore an articulate structure and what seems a rational entity, ruling out any psychology of depth.
But “to a great extent, the creative process remains on an unconscious, inarticulate level where unconscious perceptions communicate themselves directly to the artist ‘automatically’ writing hand”. So the task of the artist is to ‘disintegrate the articulate and rational surface perceptions and to call up secondary processes in the public” calling on the secret life of the emotions, those techniques of scribbling that have there direct outcome in emotional power. The musical equivalent of this is the accidental glissando and vibrato, those unintended inflections that express something more profound than the smooth surface.
In order to open up these possibilities, Ehrenzweigh shows how the techniques of the modern “automatic” painter manages to retain the “ initial stage of fluid gestalt- free perception by suppressing all definite formative ideas/”
It was this technique that most interested Motherwell. As for the general particular tensions between the verbal and the visual, they came radically personalized in surrealism
... From Matta he took the idea that forms could be torn, like wounds in the picture - again like the moral statements art could make, must make. Most important of all, it was from Matta that he learned about the automatic beginnings of the painting gesture, what became the Motherwell “doodle” or spontaneous scribble at the origin of many of his works. It is what starts you into your spontaneous creation; it is at the source of enthusiasm.. It is far from trivial.
Motherwell - In my case I find the blank canvas so beautiful that to work immediately, in relation to how beautiful the canvas is as such, is inhibiting and, for me, demands too much too quickly; so that my tendency is to get the canvas “dirty,” so to speak, in one way or another, and then, so to speak, “work in reverse,” and try to bring it back to an equivalent of the original clarity and perfection of the canvas that one began on/
... So the doodle mediates between nothingness on the empty page and the mind eager to express itself. The term ‘improvisation’, as in a 1991 work of that name, prepares exactly the aesthetic ground on which the witness to spontaniety occured.American as improvisation may sound, Motherwell’s doing them was tinged with the Oriental, because at the moment you let your “hand take over,” it is as if you’re painting with someone’s hand. You have to give up the major emphasis on yourself... here the thinking is in the doing, in the painting, in the enthusiastic way you open yourself up, give yourself over, to the spontaneous start.
...”Doodling, “ Steinberg had said, “is the brooding of the hand.”
... The initial contact with the canvas, say, this line or stroke thrown down, just like that, can lead where we may want to go.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Errol Moo Young - "Exploring Automatic Drawings"
Errol Moo Young - Exploring "Automatic Drawings" Numbering 1 - 15
My Story
In January 2001, I decided to challenge myself to do 100 drawings in a month. The target date wasn’t met. The first drawing was completed on the 21st of January. The 100th drawing was finished March 11, 2001.
It was an exercise in doing ‘automatic drawings,’ - line drawings, doodles to some, which evolved on the paper. The lines were freely drawn, wandering over the blank paper. The first drawing was whimsically called " Led by the Line.” This would summarize the semi conscious state in which the work was, sometimes, rapidly done. At other times the process was slow and reflective. Not in the sense of unfolding a narrative. But to see what would appear next. What would be the destination each linear journey.
Reading Robert Motherwell’s book and seeing some of the quotes, reinforced some of the thoughts I was having. Freely evolved from doodles and scribbles, but with a deeper meaning. A starting point for more involved action - such as the inclusion of color, contrast and composition. Always new in content, shape and form.
Always experimenting and trying to explore new horizons, or confined boundries, restricted, then free flowing,
unbounded by rules or styles, hoping to reach a depiction that was uniquely mine. Evolving from my mind.
Here is the first set of 15 automatic drawings in the series.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Today's Online Abstract Art Gallery #49
" THREE EMERGING"" - MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING/COLLAGE ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 49th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Three Emerging". The abstract artwork fuses collage elements of drawing, collage elements and painting.
It's a flurry of activity, almost confusing as three figures emerge from an incarceration of expressionist paint.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Today's Abstract Painting Gallery #48
" PLURAL PASTICHE" - MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING/COLLAGE ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 48th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Plural Pastiche". The abstract artwork fuses collage elements of drawing, painting and digital art.
It's a pastiche of various elements collaged to give new meaning to a new form... glimpses on an abstract journey.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Today's Abstract Painting Gallery #47
" MONOCHROME 1" - MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 47th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Monochrome 1". This is the first in a series of abstract painting, exploring movement and form that I tried as a series. They act as a sketch or prelude to doing larger works.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Today's Abstract Digital Online Gallery #46
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART DIGITAL GALLERY #46
"Efflux" - MODERN ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 46th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Efflux". This is an abstract artwork, combining photography, drawing and digital painting techniques.
Experimenting with color, expressive wandering lines, and a fusing of the elements.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Today's Abstract Digital Gallery- Divided Loyalties
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART DIGITAL GALLERY #45
"Divided Loyalties" - MODERN ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 45th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Divided Loyalties". This is an abstract artwork, combining photography, drawing and digital painting techniques.
Experimenting with color, expressive wandering lines, and a fusing of the elements.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Today's Abstract Digital Art #44 - Collision of Color
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART DIGITAL GALLERY #44
"Collision of Colors" - MODERN ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 44th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Collision of Color". This is an abstract artwork, combining photography, drawing and digital painting techniques.
Experimenting with color, expressive wandering lines, and a fusing of the elements.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Kandinsky on art
While browsing 'The Blaue Reiter', by Hajo Duchting, about the movement that led to a more modern approach to art and the abstract movement, a number of quotes jumped out.
" Kandinsky here once again, and with great vehemence, stages the destruction of the old worldview, that concept of painting, out of which the new spiritual epoch is to be born. Out of this disintegration of times, he creates a new harmony consisting of contrapuntal pictorial processes, in whose conflicts and collisions - always balanced, never informal - the picture of the spiritual emerges."
Wassily Kandinsky, in 1912 describes the process that was absorbing his thoughts - "clashing discords, loss of equilibrium, 'principles' overthrown, unexpected drumbeats, great questionings, apparently purposeless strivings, stress and longing (apparently torn apart), chains and fetters broken (which had united many), opposites and contradictions - this is our harmony."
Under such contradictory circumstances and clashing thoughts, is it any wonder that abstraction as a solution, would emerge.
" Kandinsky here once again, and with great vehemence, stages the destruction of the old worldview, that concept of painting, out of which the new spiritual epoch is to be born. Out of this disintegration of times, he creates a new harmony consisting of contrapuntal pictorial processes, in whose conflicts and collisions - always balanced, never informal - the picture of the spiritual emerges."
Wassily Kandinsky, in 1912 describes the process that was absorbing his thoughts - "clashing discords, loss of equilibrium, 'principles' overthrown, unexpected drumbeats, great questionings, apparently purposeless strivings, stress and longing (apparently torn apart), chains and fetters broken (which had united many), opposites and contradictions - this is our harmony."
Under such contradictory circumstances and clashing thoughts, is it any wonder that abstraction as a solution, would emerge.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART DIGITAL GALLERY #43
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART DIGITAL GALLERY #43
"Angled Variations" - MODERN ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 43rd in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Angled Variations". This is an abstract artwork, combining photography, drawing and digital painting techniques.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART DIGITAL GALLERY #42
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART DIGITAL GALLERY #42
"BOWL OVER" - MODERN ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 42nd in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Bowl Over". This is an an abstract artwork, combining photography and digital painting techniques.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART PAINTING GALLERY #41
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART PAINTING GALLERY #41
"URBAN ENCROACHING" - MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING/COLLAGE ON PAPER by Errol Moo Young
The 41st in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Urban Encroaching". This is an an abstract artwork, combining background acrylic painting, collage and drawings. A figure emerging, from the encroaching pressures of modern living. This mixed media artwork fuses various drawings executed over a period of time, They are combined in a collage to release new meanings, alluding to the gradual encroaching of the urban into the rural.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract paintings can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART PAINTING GALLERY #40
TODAY'S ABSTRACT ART PAINTING GALLERY #40
MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING/COLLAGE ON PAPER
The 40th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Unravelling". This is an an abstract artwork, combining background acrylic painting, collage and drawings. A figure emerging, unravelling the complexity of modern living. This mixed media artwork fuses various drawings executed over a period of time, They are combined in a collage to release new meanings, alluding to the ying and yang of daily existence.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract paintings can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Friday, February 11, 2011
Holy Trinity Cathedral now 100 years old.
Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kingston, Jamaica celebrated its 100th Anniversary on February 6, 2011. Hundreds turned out to witness the occasion.
On the retirement of Bishop Gordon, the Holy See selected Father John J. Collins, S.J., as Administrator Apostolic of the Vicariate of of Jamaica. Father Collins should have fallen heir to the stately brick-constructed Holy Trinity Church, boasting a seating capacity of eighteen hundred. Instead he fell heir to their ruins and rubble, to their cracked walls, gaunt pillars and roofless structures - the aftermath of the awful, destructive earthquake of January 14, 1907. In a matter of seconds Kingston was in ruins. Holy Trinity Church was utterly destroyed.
Soon after his consecration by the Holy See on October 28, 1907, Bishop John J. Collins spent some months in the United States collecting funds and furthering plans for the construction of the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Twenty thousand Catholics had no place to worship save one small chapel, St. Anne’s in western Kingston.
There was some difference of opinion as to whether it should be built on the ruins of old Holy Trinity Church or on a new and more promising site. As Kingston’s population shifted from the centre of the city, it was felt that a cathedral near the newly emerging residential areas of Franklin Pen, Allman Pen and Passmore Pen would serve the congregation more conveniently, since transportation was a problem for those who did not own carriages. Secondly, in February, 1908, a property at the eastern end of North Street known as “Colmar Estate” was for sale. “Colmar Estate” adjoining Winchester Park was purchased for the erection of the new cathedral.
The corner stone of the new edifice was laid on December 13, 1908. Two thousand people and all the priests of the Mission marched in the procession that led the Bishop to the spot. Four thousand were there assembled to hear the eloquent sermon preached by Father Patrick F.X. Mulry, after which, the vicar apostolic blessed the cornerstone. The work on the Cathedral advanced rapidly. Two years and one month later the church was completed and the day of its dedication fixed. It was an edifice that the Bishop and his people could view with pride and triumph. Romanasque, this massive reinforced concrete structure culminated in a copper-covered dome of eighty-five feet high. Supporting the dome were four huge concrete pillars, each twelve feet in diameter. The building covers an area of 12,600 square feet. The magnificent structure towers over the Liguanea plains with the Blue Mountains in the background. The cathedral is one of the most impressive ecclesiastical structure in the British West Indies.The interior decorations owe their conception to Brother Francis Schroen, a lay brother of the Maryland New York Province of the Society of Jesus.
The Cathedral was designed by Mr. Raymond F. Almiral of New York and Walker-Fyche Co. of Montreal built it. The High altar, Byzantine in style, was created from Carrara marble. The pipe organ is one of the oldest and largest in the English speaking Caribbean. Among the notable donors were Theo Byndloss, who spent well his 1160 pounds sterling to erect this sacred table and the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ward, C.G.M., Custos of Kingston, gave 1,453 pounds sterling for the great organ. The building was completed, decorated and furnished at a cost of about
Sunday February 5, 1911 was a triumphant day for Bishop Collins. Before him stood his monumental dream, the most magnificent, the largest, the costliest church in the British West Indies in which 3000 people gathered: 2,400 seated and 600 standing for its opening. The Jamaica National Heritage Trust declared this Cathedral a National Monument in 2000.
February 6, 2011 was celebrated as the magnificent cathedral was restored to its former glory with more to come as the funds become available.
TODAY'S Abstract Art Painting Gallery #39
TODAY'S Abstract Art Painting Gallery #39
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT PAINTING/COLLAGE ON PAPER
This is the 39th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Three Emerging". This is an an abstract artwork, combining background painting, collage and drawings. The three emerging from an ordeal of long duration, was originally sketched in my diary pages. Further changes and modifications were made, collaged against an abstract ground and new forms and thoughts emerged over time.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract paintings can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Thursday, February 3, 2011
TODAY'S Photo Gallery #38
TODAY'S Photo Gallery #38
CONTEMPORARY Black and White photo
This is the 37th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Truncated". This is a abstracted, digitized photo of an ancient tree trunk, showing the decades of endurance by it's varied textures.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract photos can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame and mat around the photo are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Painting Gallery #37
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Collage Gallery #37
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT PAINTING
This is the 37th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my Contemporary Abstract Art Paintings, Drawings, Collage and digital experimentations and explorations.
Today's title is "Taking Umbrage". This is a collage of pen and ink drawings, acrylic brush lines and a colored pen linear background of angry lines. Collage is a layering of thoughts, musings and personal history using various media to convey new meanings to the individual pieces.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame around the paintings are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Monday, January 17, 2011
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Collage Gallery #36
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Collage Gallery #35
Contemporary Abstract Collage Painting
This is the 36th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my contemporary abstract art paintings, drawings, collage and digital experimentations.
Today's title is "The Still of the Morning". This is a collage of photos, paintings, and drawings, found in the studio. Collage is a layering of thoughts, musings and personal history using various media to convey new meanings to the individual pieces. It gives a new life to found objects, paper, photos, drawings, paintings by combining them and creating them into a new form.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame around the paintings are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Monday, December 20, 2010
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Painting Gallery #35
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Painting Gallery #35
Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Painting
This is the 35th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my contemporary abstract art paintings, drawings and digital experimentations.
Today's title is "A Complex History". Much of human history came from small discoveries- fire, the wheel, tools, agriculture, utensils. some shared, some kept in secret, others obscured by time. Some civilizations create massive enduring monuments, some societies are excellent sailors and fishermen, but live in primitive huts. Other great societies fly men to the moon, while nomadic tribes exist in the desert on a handful of grains. Such is the diverse and complex history of man...
From an unlikely series of structures, new forms emerge from them. Are they a composition of random selection or survival of the fittest or the smartest?
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame around the paintings are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Painting Gallery #34
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Painting Gallery #34
Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Painting
This is the 34th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my contemporary abstract art paintings, drawings and digital experimentations.
Today's title is "The Great Leap Backwards". Sometimes you think you're progressing. Moving forward. Then a series of events explode. Setting back, obliterating all the gains that were made. We hope we're learning from the history of the past.
Rapid slashes of acrylic paint obscure the early drawings.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame around the paintings are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Monday, November 29, 2010
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Drawing Gallery #33
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Drawing Gallery #33
Abstract Mixed Media Drawing - "Figure emerging from trance"
This is the 33rd in a series featuring and showcasing some of my contemporary abstract art paintings, drawings and digital experimentations.
Today's title is "Figure emerging from trance". Free flowing pen lines fleshed out a figure emerging from trance, somewhat bewildered. Mixed media drawing includes pen lines, acrylic paint, markers and watercolor.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame around the paintings are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Friday, November 19, 2010
TODAY'S ABSTRACT DIGITAL FUSION GALLERY #32
TODAY'S Contemporary Digital Fusion Gallery #32
Abstract Digital Fusion - "Exultations"
This is the 32nd in a series featuring and showcasing some of my contemporary abstract art paintings, drawings and digital experimentations.
Today's title is "Exultations". These were photos taken at a religious ceremony. The movement, celebrations, colors, energy and devotion were what caught my eye. Then using the photos as a starting point I experimented with many digital tools. The aim was to experiment with the shapes, forms, colors and textures, to reduce them to their most basic forms. Making each composition as different as possible. Religion plays an important role in people's lives, culture and behavior, this was a snippet of one such ceremony.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame around the paintings are used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Monday, November 8, 2010
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Drawing Online Gallery #31
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Drawing Online Gallery #31
Contemporary Abstract Art Painting - "Darwin's Random Selection"
This is the 31st in a series featuring and showcasing some of my contemporary abstract art paintings and drawings.
Today's title is "Darwin's Random Selection". This original abstract artwork combines pen and ink drawing, pastels, watercolor, and acrylic paint on paper, mounted on card. The title came at the end of the process, as an ape-like figure appeared at the top. The drawing started as a wandering line traversing the invisible plains. The theory of evolution is a topic of sharp and discordant views. Which side are you on?
Browsing through a '97 issue of Vanity Fair, articles devoted to issues on saving Africa, "Out of Africa" caught my eye. An intriguing article by Spencer Wells, While Homo sapiens can be traced to around 200,000 years ago in the fossil record, it is remarkably difficult to find any archaeological record of our species between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, and genetic data suggests that, due to extreme climatic conditions, the population eventually dwindled to as few as 2000 individuals.
To quote " And then something remarkable happened. It began slowly, with only a few hints of explosion to come. The first stirrings were ART - tangible evidence of advanced, abstract thought - and a significant improvement in the types of tools humans made. Then, around 50,000 years ago, all hell broke loose. The human population began to expand, first in Africa, then leaving the homeland to spread into Eurasia." It's a fascinating article. Read Vanity Fair, July 2007.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame around the painting is used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Art Online Gallery #30
TODAY'S Contemporary Abstract Art Online Gallery #30
Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract Art Painting - "Audition for a Blues Singer"
This is the 30th in a series featuring and showcasing some of my contemporary abstract art paintings and drawings.
Today's title is "Audition for a Blues Singer". This original abstract artwork combines pen and ink drawing, collage, pastels, oil pastels, and acrylic paint on paper, mounted on card.
Using the gallery approach demonstrates how abstract artworks can be displayed on walls in a variety of colors.
The frame is used for design purposes to enhance the paintings, the frame is not for sale.
For more information about purchases and a more comprehensive view of my contemporary abstract art drawings, paintings, collages and digital fusions, visit -
http://www.yessy.com/emooyoung
more artworks on video can be seen at- http://youtube.com/Emooyoung
or for more information write me at
emooyoung @gmail.com
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