Abstract Art: Children’s Games

Abstract art, what is that? It is an art style that draws art as it is in real life. It is all about exploring form and color. It is also referred to as nonrepresentational painting because it has no subject matter. It is often hard to depict what is being painted. The painting above was created by Rufino Tamayo and is titled “Children’s Games” (Tamayo 1959). Rufino was a talented Mexican painter that helped blend 20th century abstract with pre-Columbian art style (“Rufino Tamayo”). The art style that he used for this painting was Expressionism and Surrealism. What drew me to this painting were the distorted looking figures in the background.

Its background looks shadowed. There are many lines, a mixture between open and closed. Some of them are thin lines. The shapes are irregular shapes that could be children. Some of the other shapes could represent the games that the children were playing. I identified them as children because of the name of the painting. The colors that the artist used in this painting red, pink, blue, and a hint of brown. To me, the color pink suggests love. I believe that correlates to this painting because people love children. I also believe that the background is red to symbolize the heat outside while the children were playing. This is definitely abstract art; it has no subject matter. You cannot look at this work of art and depict what exactly you are seeing, or what it is supposed to be.

Citations

Tamayo, Rufino. “Children’s Games.” Metmuseum.org, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1983.208/.

“Rufino Tamayo.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Rufino-Tamayo/337960.