ဒပ္မဲ့ပန္းခ်ီ အႏုပညာမွာ အမ်ိဳးအစားႏွစ္ခုရွိတယ္လို႔ ေယဘုယ်ေျပာလို႔ရတယ္။ ပထမအမ်ိဳးအစားက သဘာဝႀကီးထဲကျဒပ္မဲ့ ျပဳလို႔ရတဲ့အေၾကာင္း အရာေတြကို ေရးဆြဲ ပံုေဖာ္တယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ ခင္ဗ်ားၾကည့္ျမင္ရတာက သရုပ္မွန္ သဘာဝက်တယ္ မထင္ရ ေပမဲ့ ၾကည့္တဲ့ အထဲကေန အနည္းဆံုး စိတ္ကူးတခု ရနိုင္ေလာက္ဖို႔ေတာ့ နီးစပ္ပါတယ္။




         ဒုတိယျဒပ္မဲ့ပန္းခ်ီ အမ်ိဳးအစားကို ျဒပ္မဲ့စစ္စစ္လို႔တခါတေလ ရည္ညြန္းၾကတယ္။ အဲဒါမ်ိဳးက ပိုေတာင္နားလည္ရခက္ပါ ေသးတယ္။ ဒီလိုပန္းခ်ီမ်ိဳးက ဘယ္လိုသမားရိုးက်စစ္မွန္မႈ တရားပံုစံကို မွထင္ဟပ္မႈမရွိဘူး။ ခင္ဗ်ား ျမင္ရမွာက ပံုသ႑ာန္ေတြ၊ အေရာင္ေတြ၊ မ်ဥ္းေၾကာင္းေတြ၊ အဆင္ကြက္ (Pattern)ေတြ၊ စတာေတြသာျဖစ္တယ္။ အဲဒီလိုမ်ိဳး အနုပညာကို ၾကည့္တဲ့အခါ မ်ိဳးပန္းခ်ီကားေတြကို လူေတြဘာေၾကာင့္ အားထုတ္ၾကသလဲ လို႔ အရင္ဆံုးသိခ်င္ၾကမွာ သဘာဝပါဘဲ။ တခ်ိဳ႔အေျခအေနေတြမွာ ဒီဇိုင္းကိုယ္၌ကုိယ္က မ်က္စိကို ပသာဒရေစတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ပန္းခ်ီကားကုိ အဆင္တန္ဆာပစၥည္းတခုအျဖစ္မ်ွသာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ၾကည့္ခ်င္ၾကည့္မယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္လည္း ဒါဟာ ျပသနာတရပ္ အၿမဲမဟုတ္ဘူး။ တကယ္ေတာ့ ျဒပ္မဲ့အႏုပညာ အမ်ားႀကီးက မ်က္စိကို ပသာဒရေစတာမဟုတ္ပါ။ ၿပီးေတာ့ တန္ဆာဆင္ အလွျပဳမႈ တခုမွ်သာအတြက္ ပန္းခ်ီဆရာတေယာက္က ဘာလို႔အခ်ိန္ေတြအမ်ားႀကီးသံုးရမလဲ။ အဲဒီထက္မကတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းေတြရွိအံုးမွာေပါ့။



            အမွန္တကယ္က မ်က္လံုးကို ဘယ္ဟာကထိေတြ႔ေစသလဲ၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲလို႔ျမင္ဖို႔ဆိုတာထက္ ျဒပ္မဲ့ပန္းခ်ီ အနုပညာမွာတျခားအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားအမ်ားႀကီးအမ်ားႀကီးရွိေနပါတယ္။ဟုတ္ပါတယ္။ဒါဟာဘာေၾကာင့္လဲလို႔နားလည္ဖို႔ဆိုရင္ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ဟာ အနုပညာရဲ့ရည္႐ြယ္ရင္းကို ထည့္သြင္း စဥ္းစား ရပါမယ္။



            အနုပညာလက္ရာတခုကို အမွန္တကယ္နားလည္သေဘာေပါက္ ဖို႔ရမွာ တခုထီးတည္းဖန္တီးမႈဆိုတာထက္ သာလြန္ တဲ့ အရာအျဖစ္ျမင္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီထဲမွာ တျခားပါဝင္မႈေတြ ရွိကိုရွိမွာပါ။ အဲဒါဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆိုေတာ့ (ပန္းခ်ီ) အနုပညာဆိုတာ ေျပာင္းလဲေနတဲ့အရာမို႔ပါဘဲ။ ပန္းခ်ီကားတုိင္းဟာပတ္ဝန္းက်င္တခုအတြင္းမွာ ဖန္တီးခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။ အဲဒီ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ကိုနားမလည္ဘူးဆုိရင္ ပန္းခ်ီဆရာက ဘာကို တင္ျပသလဲဆိုတာကို ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ခင္ဗ်ားနားလည္လက္ခံနိုင္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ပန္းခ်ီဆရာတဦးရဲ့လက္ရာကို ေလ့လာတဲ့အခါ သူ႔ဘဝနဲ႔ သူေနထုိင္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေခတ္ကာလ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ အေၾကာင္းတစံုတရာကို ေလ့လာေနတာျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတာ သေဘာေပါက္ သင့္တယ္။

             ပန္းခ်ီတကားရဲ့ အရည္အေသြးဟာပန္းခ်ီဆရာ၏ စြမ္းရည္ႏွင့္ ဆႏၵအေပၚမွာ မႈတည္ေပမဲ့  ပန္းခ်ီကား ေပၚမွာ ခင္ဗ်ားျမင္ရတာေတြေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ဟာ အဲဒီအနုပညာကိုဖန္တီးခဲ့တဲ့ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ကို ထင္ဟပ္ေစတာအမွန္ပါဘဲ။    

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What is abstract art?

Many students want to start with abstract art and many of them soon give it up. The reason for this is that abstract art is difficult. It is difficult in the sense that it requires artistic discipline, knowledge and a certain amount of expertise in painting techniques, usually acquired through training in more formal aspects of art.

Abstract art does promise more freedom of expression. It does allow a more expansive and intuitive play of creativity. The reason why many students fail to find it satisfying is that abstract art can all too easily result in a mess without any inner cohesion. Although many artists have begun with abstract art, it generally needs some practice in form, color and modeling before it becomes a worthwhile endeavor.

Having said this, the following article attempts to introduce abstract art for the beginner. As long as you have had some experience with drawing and painting you should be able to grasp the essence of what abstract art is all about.

Abstract art has been around for a long time. Cézanne painted essentially abstract art even though his subject matter was ostensibly realistic. Abstract art is linked in the past century to a much larger movement. This was the modernist movement against representation.

Representation was the unwritten belief that art was meant to reflect or represent what there was in the everyday world. Artists rebelled against this restriction and especially against the idea of art only as imitation. The idea of art for its own sake began to develop in the middle of the nineteenth century. In other words, art no longer had to refer to something in the everyday world. Color and form could express feeling or states of consciousness that were personal and not necessarily " realistic."

Artists like Paul Klee developed his own vocabulary of form, symbol and color as well as new techniques to express his inner vision. Picasso is probably the innovator who did the most to popularize and give legitimacy to abstract art.

How to create an abstract painting.

Firstly, as has been stated, abstract art is not merely messing with paint.

(Although there is nothing wrong with messing with paint in order to experiment and discover new possibilities.)

Abstract art requires great formal discipline. What does this mean? The following exercise in abstract art should make this clear.

Begin your first abstract work of art by painting or drawing something from real life. Consider this a form of sketching or preparation for the abstract painting. Begin, for example, with something very ordinary, like a bowl of fruit, a flower, or a portrait.

For purposes of this demonstration we will take a picture of a cat. This is a very simple form so it should not present much difficulty. Sketch the cat on a piece of paper or canvas; depending on which medium and surface you are most comfortable with. The process of sketching is in reality a process of close study. While sketching try to pay attention to the following:

Form: look at the form of the cat. This is a form that we are used to; it has become habitual to us. There is seemingly, at first glance, nothing strange about the form of a cat. Look again. As you sketch try to look at the shape from a different perspective as if you were seeing it for the first time. This is very difficult as we are accustomed to categorizing this shape in our minds and in fact neglecting to look at it in detail.

As you sketch, something should be happening to your old habitual ways of seeing the cat. The cat is in fact a very strange form. You should start to become aware of the uniqueness and strangeness of this form. In other words, you begin to appreciate the form as something that is strange, but also interesting.

Color. Once you have sketched the shape, begin to look at the color of the cat and also the shades of color within the main colors. Paint with watercolor or very thin oils over your sketch. Look at the shadows and you will see many different shades of color that you probably did not notice previously.

For example, if this is a black cat, after observing the cat for a while you will see different shades of black, from gray to even blue and purple. In this process you are beginning to see further than the usual cursory glance that we often give to things around us. In a sense, you are becoming sensitized to the world in a new way through art.

There will be those students who are confused at this point and possibly even slightly irritated. Please note that this is not something that happens quickly. Remember that we have many years of habitual sight, of re-presenting the world to ourselves through the eyes of others and through what we have been told by our peers and society. This takes time and a lot of practice and patience, but unless one goes through this process, abstract art cannot become a reality.

Once you have begun to find the cat to be more than just a picture of a cat but a complex relationship of form and color then you are on the cusp of beginning to understand abstract art.

After many more studies of the cat you should find that some areas or colors become more interesting than others- this is when abstract art becomes fascinating.

Practically, the next step is to paste all your sketches on a board and spend some time looking at them. Many artists leave the process at this stage and move onto something else. They do so in order for the images to "boil" in their subconscious minds. This is important, as the purpose of abstract art is not to imitate the picture of a cat but to glean certain images, forms and color knowledge that may or may not be combined with other images.

When you feel that you simply must paint the cat, then go back to your sketches. After a period of time it is also normal to see shapes and even colors that you did not see previously. It is almost as if your mind has been working on this painting without your conscious knowledge. Set up your canvas or paper and, glancing at the sketches, begin to paint or draw those areas that you find fascinating. This is still a sketch, albeit a final one. Feel free to add and subtract to and from your painting. Do not feel restricted by anything but in a disciplined way refer to your sketches for inspiration.

What finally emerges on your painting surface depends on how hard you have concentrated on the image of the cat. When you step back and look at your painting you might see something that has no resemblance to a cat at all- it may be a collection of colors, shapes and forms interweaving, or it might have the general outline of the cat. Work at this until you feel that you have exhausted the possibilities that the image of the cat offers.

Working from this sketch, begin the final process of creating your abstract painting. Remember that there is no point at which anyone can say that an abstract painting is finished. Only the artist knows this.

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