The more I live, the more I understand abstract art.
I used to have a disdain for abstract art. But the more I live, the more I understand the human experience and the more I get what abstract art is all about.
Human emotions, especially the most complex ones, do not have forms. What is the shape of love? What is the shape of frustration? What is the shape of sadness, of loneliness, of longing for a day that has since gone but is rendered well in memory?
Abstract art is a great form to expressed shapeless and formless emotions. And it also happens to be the form of art that is most accessible to formally untrained artists like me.