Modern Art despite Modernism

(To be honest I sorta forgot what we were supposed to respond to, so I'm responding to whatever the interactive essay thing from the Museum of Modern art that was on the syllabus)
While abstractions are interesting, I prefer works of art that have a form to them.  However, works with geometric patterns such as Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie bring a smile to my face.  Perhaps it is Broadway Boogie Woogie in particular, as it is reminiscent of the colors of lego blocks I used to play with when I was a child.  When things appeared simpler...
I am also fascinated by the semi-photo realism of romanticism paintings (grammar?), which is what lead me to Odd Nerdrum (who I found a few days before Professor Wellman showed some of his works to the class), who uses human forms reminiscent of romanticism but are in environments of surrealistic quality.  A few of his paintings, such as arrest- have a sort of lava-like swirls of color in the background that reminds me of the works by Jackson Pollock like Full Fathom Five, except the swirls general flow and follow the human forms.

Digital Painting

I found this interesting:

If you watch carefully during the coloring stage, for example the skin tone- there are only solid blocks of color.  Variations in the color are achieved through gray scale shading, and perhaps some subtle modifications to the base underneath.
And here I was still choosing different colors to achieve different shades in my digital art...

Raid my "Digital Artness" folder!

I thought I'd grab one of the digitally inked drawings I have kicking around and post it.  I don't know why, not like anyone will see it.
I like the way the purple and the blue colors seem to harmoniously  interact... At least I'm good with choosing colors :)

Anyway, I'll throw in the original pencil just for fun, because I want to make your eyes bleed at my horrible drawing skills.  In my defense I never had any formal training (unless you count a few years of tae kwon do which I have forgotten by now).