Throughout the history of fine painting, artists have explored -- seeking more freedom in media and ideas. The schools of art which precede the artists are springboards for something new. The Abstract Expressionist folks have provided us viewers with otherwise unprecedented freedom of imagination as we experience their work. We no longer must see a represented apple, tree, barn or whatever -- which is in a painting we are viewing. We can now look at the painting before us -- it's colors, values, shapes -- its symmetry and composition -- and let our imaginations roam freely, among as many objects or ideas as come to mind as a result of our experiencing the painting.
We may find tranquillity or excitement, puzzlement, or conjecture -- or enlightenment. Each person who "reads" an abstract expressionist painting brings to the experience his own vast world of images and ideas. ###
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