Principles of Critical Abstraction and/or Color-Realism care of Professional Abstract Artist Michel Luc Bellemare Jul. 2014 | Seite 2

Notwithstanding micro-revolutions of everyday life, small insurrections, micro-refusals in the
micro recesses of everyday life continue to persists and this is where the avant-garde spirit has
re-configured itself. Whether it be the refusal to drive a gasoline car via an electric car or the
purchase of pure abstraction painting in favor of a landscape, there are micro-revolutions and
micro-refusals taking place across the socio-economic spectrum of society whereupon the
individual is regaining its autonomy and freedom by its small everyday acts of refusal,
usurpation and re-configuration of the dominant traditional conventions of everyday life.
4. Meaning and/or Value in Art and/or of an art-from is based on structure of feeling.
Color-Realism is about constructing a structure of feeling via an artwork, where thought and
feeling are one, i.e. where specific thoughts generate specific feelings and specific feelings
generate specific thoughts via the artwork. A critique of Rothko is that his paintings although
yearning to instill specific feelings in the viewer, i.e. feelings of tragedy, doom, ecstasy, the
religious experience etc., never achieved this end due to the fact that Rothko never constructed
his paintings with a structure of feeling in mind, although this is exactly what he wished to
achieve via his artwork. Consequently, his artworks remained open-ended, cryptic and open to a
multitude of interpretations and sensations, meaningless, and currently the sum of
contemporary abstract art continues to be trapped and spellbound in this outmoded type of
nonsensical creation. Rothko’s artwork did not achieve the desired effect that he so longed for.
Rothko did not see the possibilities of titles as an artistic medium to guide viewers to specific
sensations, experiences and thought-forms, i.e. concepts. In contrast, color-realism remaining
true to the emotional power of pure abstraction, first discovered with abstract expressionism,
takes pure abstraction to the next level, a heighted level, designing specific structures of feeling
through artefacts that can allow the viewer a basis and/or context for the manifestation of
specific feelings and specific thoughts, which is the way to meaningful communication, the
intrinsic purpose of art. Moreover, this is the realism of this specific form of pure abstraction
painting called color-realism, where titles structure thought as visual images structure feeling
and vice versa. This is the different between old abstract art and the new abstract art.
5. Great Art by any means necessary.