Minimalist Painting Series and Abstract defined

In shaking things up a bit, Jill ventured on a minimalist type of painting series to test the waters as there appears to be a decent interest in this type of painting style. As she is more of a realist painter, this afforded her a challenge to loosen the reigns and be a little more impressionistic and in some case more abstract ~ which I've been pushing her to do more of :-)

Here are two paintings she just added (forgive the blue tint) onto her UGallery site:

These are smaller paintings than usual, but I find there is more play and expression afforded to specific objects here. She has a total of ten completed right now and is just feeling out its marketability. I hope these paintings encourage her to venture more into impression and abstraction as it seems a natural progression.

As an editorial point here, ABSTRACT artists should be skilled realist artists first as they THEN abstract from realism to form an art piece that can be appreciated and meditated on for its opaque to sublime message.

Pollack, J. (1952). Convergence [Painting].  Retrieved from
http://www.jackson-pollock.org/convergence.jsp#prettyPhoto

Jackson Pollack is a great example where, at first, as an amateur art eye years ago, I could not comprehend his work, but after years of learning through Jill's work and love of art, I am better able to contemplate this style. I will do background research if I'm fully confused as in Pollack's case, and it does help.