An artifact which has lines, forms and colors composed on a surface is an abstract painting. The word 'abstract' means "pulled from" and is from Latin: ab=from and "tractus"=pulled.

An abstract composition is like jazz. The artist begins to play without a written score. Ideas for progress and intermixture of fugal elements come to him as he proceeds. When the composition winds to resolution the artist stops. Land forms, rivers, waterfalls, creeks, streets, buildings and sometimes human figures are the sources of my compositions.

I am inspired by Miles Davis, Michelangelo, Velasquez as well as by Chinese and Japanese calligraphy.

M.A. Langenkamp

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