Abstract Art: The Language

I do not mean French or Japanese or American Sign Language. I mean the language of art. This means what you put into your art piece and what you want others to perceive from it.  Language makes up the base of who the artist behind the art is. Like how language tells about the culture and identity of a person, art language makes it easier to identify who did what by how they manipulate their creations. Actions and ideas within a painting make up what the artist is communicating.

Many of the time, symbols are used in an artist's personal language. They are the easiest way of communication for humans to understand, "Art is a visual language, which artists use to express themselves, and symbols have been employed as a means of communication since long before man invented the spoken word" (Reiter 113). Symbols are used for basic everyday tasks such as driving or cooking or operating machinery.  Symbols might be  lifelike based off of real-world sights or they might be out of your head or they might represent an emotion. Colors often represent feelings that artists want to portray. Symbols are often marks, lines, or shapes.
Motifs often speak the personal language of the artist within the symbol. Motifs are when you paint a tree rounded or pointed (with symbols/shapes) instead of exactly based on how the tree looks (Reiter 116). Every artist has a different point of view.

Adjectives in the personal language of your art are ways that viewers might describe the flow of your paint brush. These are all associations with that exact type of painting. For example, squiggles would be playful and blots might be angry.

All these different pieces of the language that you create in your art compile to make your art pieces unique to you. This means that if you get famous with your art, another artist might see it and say "oh look! That's [whose-it-whats-it]'s!".

My personal language within my paintings are the way i curve my brushes when i paint. I also use mixed materials in my art such as fire and water (in patterns) to affect how the paint looks.

How long does it take for an artist to get their name famous?

Reiter, Laura. Beginner's Guide to Abstract Art