the Appeal of Abstract Art

I recently read this on a Blog.  So Im posting on my blog.  I know as you see I do florals and minimal landscapes but its the abstracts that call my name.

I do believe that in Art today to stay relevant in our current world that it is all going too fast.  No one slows down long enough to look.  Even on social media you can hit the like button but you decide in a flash that you like it or you don't.  You might even only like it due to the fact of who you are.  So
for me the power in abstract art is that it is Art and even in passing you eyes do see the image which
to the layman is simple, fast and non thought provoking.  I disagree.  I recently had an artist tell me
that people don't understand abstract, I don't think it needs and understanding as its mostly about impact and emotion.  So here is the article from the blog of Tinney Contemporary. All comments are welcome.

And please take a gander at http://www.donbishopstudio.com/contemporary-paint.html and see the impact on his contemporary work.

Can the popularity of a piece of art be explained neurologically? That’s what the newest studies behind “neuroaesthetics” are trying to determine – if there’s a scientific explanation for the way that we respond to art. Though styles like Impressionism have always proved to be traditionally popular, more abstract styles of art by artists like Pollock, Rothko and Mondrian usually tend to be more difficult for the general public to interpret. However, though canvases seemingly haphazardly splattered with paint on the floor or “rigorously geometrical, primary coloured compositions” may not be traditional, easy to read narratives, several studies have shown that our brains are actually attracted and stimulated by many aspects of these non-traditional images. Our brain naturally tends to try to “solve” images, and well-balanced compositions like those of Rothko or Mondrian actually “appeal to the brain’s visual system”.

Perhaps our brain feels a sense of peace when looking at Mondrian’s gridlike compositions or Rothko’s appealing blocks of color, and maybe these aesthetically simpler pieces are just easier for a given museum-goer to appreciate it. You don’t have to be knowledgeable of a complex historical background or be able to identify religious figures in order to see these paintings for what they are.

Though viewers may not even be aware, it seems that they are still able to sense the intention behind these abstract paintings. The studies also suggest that the dynamism of works such as Pollock’s action paintings can be felt so strongly because “the brain reconstructs the energetic movements the artist used as he painted.”

Thus, though these works clearly don’t have easily determined interpretations, it seems that we’re actually naturally drawn to them. We all have our own (perhaps unknown) reasons for our impulsive attractions to certain paintings, and I find that non-representational paintings can sometimes make much more of an impact. Rothko and Pollock certainly bring to mind contemporary artwork like Martica Griffin’s paintings in which colors seem to flow into one another, and Hyunmee Lee’s abstract, gestural paintings. Since these works have no defining, easily readable narrative, we can each make of them what we like for ourselves, one of greatest characteristics of this type of art.