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1. Paint Space Abstract
Glenn Hirsch

2. Space in abstract art can be relatively shallow
or flat, ie, flat patterns of shapes on a flat
background.
Space in abstract art can have more depth,
as if the viewer sees into a space in which
the shapes “swim” in an atmospheric void.
What follows are pairs of abstractions: a flat
space and then a space with more depth.
They’re all good, it’s just that they’re
different.

3. The space is flat (Arshile Gorky 1940)

4. The space has more depth (Arshile Gorky 1943)

5. The space is flat (Andre Masson 1960)

6. The space has more depth (Andre Masson 1955)

7. The space is flat (Kandinsky 1940)

8. The space has more depth (Avinash Chandra 1963)

9. The space is flat (Philip Guston 1959)

10. The space has
more depth
(Francis Picabia
1913)

11. The space is flat.
(Robert Motherwell 1945)

12. The space has more depth
(Jackson Pollock 1952)

13. The space has more depth (Graham Sutherland 1973)

14. Art by
by Glenn Hirsch
www.glennhirsch.com
In this work, the space is bent into abstract
landscapes, often using cues of perspective
(architecture, landscape, etc.)

15. Sleepwalker

16. Prelude to a Scratch

17. Darwin’s Little Secret

18. Fluxus

19. Tree of Life

20. Creation Myth

21. Planet

22. Transfiguration

23. Codex

24. Free Spirit

25. Ghost Ship

26. Encryption

27. Antediluvian Sleep

28. Stalingrad

29. Lava Tube

30. Code Goddess

31. Picnic of the Mayan Prince

32. Projection

33. Golem

34. Mutation

35. Pandora’s Box

36. Pandora’s Hope

37. Pandora’s Code

38. Pandora’s Experiment

39. Throne

40. The Alien Meme