Abstraction in Today's Modern Quilts

The Poppies

from a Crafty Course

Modernism is about pushing abstraction. We know it's a poppy because whoever made it says it's a poppy.

Tulip Tree

 Denyse Schmidt

Here are two traditional abstractions (another oxymoron)---representations of nature.

See more at Denyse Schmidt's webpage:
http://www.dsquilts.com/quilts.asp

Twelve Trees

From Oakshott Fabrics

They sell a kit:

http://www.oakshottfabrics.com

I had a hard time finding abstracted imagery that the makers would classify as modern quilts---which makes me think that representations are just as foreign to today's modern movement as they were to the abstract painters of the post World War II years.

Painting by Mark Rothko

No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange), 

1949

Collection of the Museum of Modern Art

See the Museum's Rothko collection by clicking here:

http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=5047

Nevertheless: I found a few interesting abstractions in modern quilts.
Click on these links:

Jacquie Gering's Tulip at Tallgrass Prairie Studios
http://tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/2013/04/wishing-for-spring.html

Sheila Frampton-Cooper's quilts:

http://zoombaby.com/my_work/quilts/17193764

And several at the West Michigan Quilters guild show:

http://westmichquilter.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-little-modern-at-wmqg.html