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“a portrayal of what is being felt from inside as opposed to what is being viewed from the outside”

My most recent painting style reflects the action paintings first brought to life by the great Jackson Pollock, allowing the colors to blend and shape the overall composition. Rather than recognizable images and shapes, abstract expressionism allows the viewer to discover their own image through a palate of blended colors. In fact, very early on I was emotionally captivated by less of what you see and more of what you feel.

During the last two years, I have once again embarked on my own artistic journey adapting not only fashions of Rothko and Pollock but a new original series of my own, using deeply defined color, emotion, and texture. 

These past few months I’ve had the pleasure painting several commissioned pieces, ranging in size and styles up to 96″ x 64″ that’s allowed me to strengthen personal creativity and passion beyond my expectations. 

I hope you enjoy the work as much as I did to create them, thank you.Bryan Drake

Nietzsche proclaimed, “We have art so that we shall not die of reality.” Most certainly, the art of Bryan Drake makes one feel alive, vibrantly and gratefully. As an instructor of the language and fine arts, I am most attracted to works that elicit in me a visceral and holistic response. When I experience Bryan’s work, I experience both immediacy and transcendence. In short, I am in love.

Maria Ainsworth, 2021

The pure Abstract Art is a portrayal of what is being felt from inside as opposed to what is being viewed from the outside. But the modern art paintings in Dubai are more than just a haphazard flow of paint onto the canvas. They hold a lot of creativity to influence the audience. If we observe it closely, we see that in most circumstances, it is full of vibrant colors and textures. A combination of these art elements makes it as the most liked form of the art being collected today in Dubai and also across the world. At the art exhibitions in Dubai, even a small but a strong piece of art can easily grab the collector’s attention and can pull out an emotional response from him and eventually push him to buy abstract impressionism art. A lot of art events including abstract art in Dubai show case the hidden talent of famous abstract artists belonging to not just Dubai and Middle East but the rest of the world.

For many artists, the purpose of Expressionism was to evoke a sort of emotion from the viewer, or to communicate the painter’s inner feelings in a way that helped the viewer understand them and see them in the same way the artist did.

Their goal, in many cases, was to express the meaning of their emotional reaction to various experiences rather than what the subjects actually looked like in reality. This was a clear departure from Realism paintings, which had held a strong grip on Europe’s artists for the previous two centuries before Expressionism came to prominence.

The main difference between impressionism and expressionism is that impressionism captures the essence of a scene through careful use of light while expressionism uses vivid colors to convey the artist’s subjective emotional response to that object.Abstract Impressionism is a form of art where the artist expresses himself through the use of form and color, with no objective representations. The movement can be divided into two groups: the Action Painting expressed by artists like Pollock and De Kooning; and Color Field Painting practiced by Rothko and Noland. Famous artists of this movement include Pollock, Gorky, Riopelle, Rothko, de Kooning, Motherwell, and Kline; their works possess very different moods and subjects, yet share qualities such as sizable canvasses, flat compositions, and the fact that all areas of the piece are filled with movement and paint (instead of creating a focal point, or an area of the most interest).