abstraction

How do you feel about pure abstraction? I'm finding it very hard to completely eliminate any sort of narrative from my work. I always want to go beyond the form/line/color formal  elements of art making. Always. So since I'm uncomfortable with this style, as my year of stretching my boundries continue, I am tackling this one. So how does..

Mark Rothko's work do for you (not his life, now, just his work)..

or

Jackson Pollock's work... or

How about Richard Diebenkorn's work? 

Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, to me was a painter's painter. He is probably most famous for is 'Ocean Park' series, which were very large canvases painted in an abstract expressionist way. I love his treatment with paint, the way he used his medium. I have been happy to see his work several times, and love all his stuff..