?More often than not the abstract artists is not imitating nature or pursuing realism, but concerned with the spiritual or emotional state of colour and form, line and texture, balance and harmony, and will attempt to engage the viewer in a way that narrative, realistic of naturalistic art cannot.? *Christo - The Umbrellas, Ibaraki, Japan, 1984-91 *Rosalie Gascoigne - Lamp Lit 1989 We often understand abstract only when we have experienced the artwork directly and realized …showed first 75 words of 676 total…

…showed last 75 words of 676 total…but rather on the experience of seeing itself: on how we encounter the material world in late twentieth-century Australia. Both artists Chisto and Gascoigne have the nature as an important role of their artwork. All of them blend into the nature in several ways, linking the reality of the objects into the nature. Connecting people with beautiful materials and structures with spiritual or emotional state of colour and form, line and texture, balance and harmony.