based on your classical music analogy, I am now thinking about how abstract art can simply be about creating visuals that create an emotional response without signifying anything… but also sometimes they can be deconstructions of subject matter.

When it comes to values though, yeah I’d be more interested in paying for a work that makes me feel something over something having renown.

@gemini6ice Nice work! When viewing art it may not matter the source or intention. Viewers are going to see what they see, feel what they feel. Statements by artists can impact that experience of course.

As much as I dislike being overly wordy and persnickety (no really! I do fight it even though I'm a wordy, persnickety fucker), I usually take the time to declare that my art is abstract expressionist. There is no intended pattern to my work beyond expressing feelings.

@gemini6ice Above you said:
> abstract art can simply be about creating visuals that create an emotional response without signifying anything… but also sometimes they can be deconstructions of subject matter.

It need not matter for a viewer's relationship to the work, but my opinion is that my art is both ends of that continuum: abstract visual expression of emotion and deconstructions of subject matter. I believe images I create come from physical data my mind has stored.