
Abstract Art and the CIA
The Blindboy Podcast
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Mane's Painting of a Tree
In your mind's eye, you have this little photograph of the tree. But it's not just visual information. It's the smell and emotions about the tree. Maney was able to capture what memories of beautiful trees felt like. And that was impressionism. Then after expressionism came expressionist,. where the expressionists were getting impressions of trees. I want to go one further. I just want to isolate the emotional feeling of the Tree. A classic example for me there would be piete mandrian. Mandrian is one of the fathers of abstraction. Heis removing information from the tree and it down into like a distant memory of what the tree would look like. Even to
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