um.. okay, I wasn't expecting someone to read this in the context of my past posts. I assume given that you're asking what I want to make that you haven't come across this post, which I think most accurately sums up my situation. Basically I'm going into an awesome art course without its prerequisites and so I'm madly trying to learn stuff about art over the summer, having never really thought about it before. That being said, again I didn't intend to write this post with that context. With this post I'm really just trying to understand non-realist art. It's somewhat obvious how to learn about realism, but I feel like abstract art is really an enigma to the public, and especially to me, and I want to understand it.

To get more specific in terms of what I want to make is difficult. Basically I'm trying to learn about different types of art at the same time. I've heard of monochrome painting and I really like Rothko despite its simplicity, but I have no idea how one would learn to make such things... Upon closer inspection, I've found a number of names of movements that I'd like to learn more about: color field painting; cubism; futurism; Les Nabis; etc. Basically I'm rattling off movements from theartstory.org that I don't understand. I am now going to start researching them at theartstory.org, but I'm still disappointed that this sub doesn't have good discussion about these things.

Again, my question means to be the words in the post above, I would appreciate answers relevant to understanding non-realist art. If you're interested in discussing what you think I want or should want to do, you can pm me or something, but reddit comments aren't the place for that if you don't mind.