Abstraction
Abstract photography is my least favourite aspect of photography. Instead of focusing on a story it focuses on the shapes and lines. To me those are the least important part of the photo.
Formal Elements
There are many elements that fall into the formal category.
Line
Shape
Form
Texture
Pattern
Color
I think that patter is the most interesting.
Line
Shape
Form
Texture
Pattern
Color
I think that patter is the most interesting.
Quotes About Abstract Art
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
Ansel Adams
Salvador Dali
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
Ansel Adams
I will be using metal items to reflect images, distorting them with the shape of the metal.
Popplet 2 : Abstraction
Ernst Haas
Ernst Haas was an Austrian/American photographer who 'pioneered' in colored photos.
Ansel Adams
While Ansel Adams is not an abstract photographer, I like the way he uses water, when we go to sutcliffe park I will try to replicate this while keeping it in an abstract form.
My Attempt
Last week we went on a trip to sutcliffe park as part of out abstraction topic. I tried to replicate this. Here are my attempts.
Evaluation
I tried to replicate the photo on the left.
London Lights
Viking Eggeling
Viking Eggeling was a Swedish Avante-grande artist. He is connected with dadaism, Constructivism and Abstract art. He is most famous for his Symphonie Diagonale, an abstract art film which utilises moving lines in repeating patterns.
The movie depicts still lines moving while I tried to show moving lines in stills. I wanted expand on his work further by adding colour. |
Final Piece
If i took this image and blew it up to A2, It would create an interesting look.
Final Final Piece
Of the images I took I chose six which I liked the most, I then stuck cut out even squares on a board and stuck the images behind facing through the holes.
This is my final piece for abstraction.
This is my final piece for abstraction.
ReviewMy Abstraction final module was harder for me as I originally did not like the concept, however after I looked at a number of artists’ work, such as Viking Eggeling, and Ernst Haas, it began to grown on me. Viking Eggeling was particularly inspirational and I went on to stylise my final piece on his short film ‘Symphonie Diagonale.’ His moving lines were to me the opposite of what I was trying to create, while at the same time exactly the same - where he used still images to make moving lines, I would use moving lines which appear still. I also expanded on his idea by adding colour which is the main feature of my display. I am very happy with the way my final piece turned out, I like how each row is fairly similar, I prefer this to if it were asymmetric and didn’t have much relation to each other. A future refinement of my idea may be to use the off cuttings of my final piece and pull them together creating a multi coloured strip of different sized lines and colours, drawing in all my inspiration from my Multiple Images module and my Abstract module together in one image. I would say that these modules have altered the way I see the world greatly, I am now more perceptive of patterns in natural and man made environments while also viewing lighting in higher regard as a creative tool rather than merely a utility.
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