I wanted to do research on abstract art, in many mediums.  I had asked myself, "How do painting, photography, music, and film/ moving image intersect?  Where is the resonince of harmony?"  I went to a bookstore in Pittsford and start a search though the art/ criticism section. I found what I was looking for:  Late Writings by Clement Greenberg.       

The section that caught my attention was the subheading "Picture Making" in his essay "Detached Observations".  It dealt with "picture making, not just picturing or depicting.... As abstract art has shown, any kind of mark, any kind of inflection on any kind of surface, can serve to make a picture." (Greenburg p63).

He goes on to venture opinions on abstract painting, sculpture, photography, and film.  He maintained that being a good painter is important to making good abstract art, what ever the medium actually being utilized.  While I'm not exactly an amazing painter, I felt encouraged that the most successful part of the film had utilized moving image excerpts of one of my paintings surfaces. I was moving in the direction I wanted to go before I even realized it.  

I'm sorry I didn't touch on Greenberg's observations of "heavy" and "light" arts, his comparisons of various mediums and cultural outlooks for different points of perspective, his take on straight photography.  I am not doing a book report, but relating what I took away about abstraction for this film project.