Abstract art (read abstract) is a direction in modern art which is not always tried to give objects from the natural world again and no issues have to be shown from the real world. Underlying principles can visualized with shapes and colors, rhythms and contrasts. This work is inspired by Cobra art. The Cobra artists wanted their work to reach a free spontaneous expression, which they wished to return to the source of creation. They were taking inspiration from drawings and paintings of children and the mentally ill and the handwriting as most personal expression and from there on Oriental calligraphy. In addition, they saw in the early 20th century operating painters Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Joan Miró and Wassily Kandinsky as their great predecessors in modern art.
My name is Lida Bruinen, I was born in 1962. After years of drawing mandalas with colored pencil I was ready for more intense materials. In the past I worked with watercolors, but now I mainly choose to paint with acrylics, often in combination with collage. However,.. Read more…