Vitkine stood out to me. His pictures were just of wires and other electrical things that were shot against a white background. I thought the way he used high contrast to make the viewer focus on the simple forms of the wires and negative space works well. tesla
haha i like these random foreign people posting on this. UMMM my favorite artists were claas (that guy standing on a sidewalk in the background) and yamamoto (the field). i love negative space and not a lot of details.
Strand's photos stood out to me the most. I really liked how he was able to take such normal every day objects and photograph them in a way where it took a second to really see what it was. I liked the technique he used of close ups, framing, tilting the picture frame, as well as the lighting.
Harry Callahan's photo of the weed close up really stood out to me, as well as all of his work. But i loved how in this photo he used close-up to turn the weed into something else (a dancer).
my favorites were strand,steiner and siskind. i out of the three i think i liked aaron sikind's photographs more because of the soft feeling the photographs give off and the way he takes recognizable things and makes them unrecognizable using certain framing.
Edward Burtynsky's work really stood out to me. I love how he made the old crushed oil cans into something beautiful and used repetition to transform this trash into something interesting and unique.
Aaron Siskind was pretty cool. It took awhile to figure out his photograph and it really made me study and observe something I wouldn't have ordinarily. He used pretty obvious formulas for creating abstractionism, but he did it really well.
I liked the piece by Yamamoto with the grassy hill and the sky shot at a tilted angle. I liked the beige sort of color that the photo was. When i looked at it i felt as if i could lose myself in the anonymity of the landscape... it was kind of bleak and dreary and it seemed as it it could go on forever. I liked it. Yays!
I enjoyed the photographs taken by Yamamoto and Bourke-White. I liked how Yamamoto's photograph was very simple and surreal. I also liked Bourke-White because of the repetition of the spools. I would like to use both simplification and repetition in my project.
The yarn photo by Margaret stood out to me. I liked how the angle was titled, the object was repeated, and it just kept on expanding past the frame. So i would like to do something that includes those elements.
I enjoyed Aaron Siskind's photography, and the way he used framing and close-ups to obscure the sense of scale. Siskind emphasized very detailed textures in buildings, paint, etc. I also liked the shapes and movement of nature in Harry Callahan's photograph of the dancing plant.
The artist that really stood out to me was Harry Callahan. We have seen him before , in other assignments, but never in this abstract, shape and form driven format. His work here, especially with the weed dancer, shows a wonderful display of lines, as well as tonality that creates something really beautiful. He finds his work of formality not in the industrialized world, but back in the world of nature. I would like to shoot something along the lines of form and structure in nature, creating images that are really close up.
I really liked liked Paul Stands work of the closeps of bowls, rock, and chair. I liked how he used simple everday objects and made them seem imortant and mysterious. I liked the techniques he used, like close up, and tilting the frame, and higher contrast.
For my project i was thinking of using things that like simple from far but close up are much more complicated using most of the degrees of abstraction.
I liked the pictures of Mordrian(this is spelled very wrong) and Hine. I liked the simplicity of the squares of color in Mordrian. In Hines picture I olved the shapes that the gaint wheel made.
there were 3 photographers that i liked from this project the first was the one who took the pictures of wires and printed them high contrast the second was the germen photographer who took picture of industrial thing and the last was a poloriod of a collar. i forgot the artists names. -sean kostka
I liked Arnaud Class. The picture of the street with a building in the backround was an interesting way to make an everyday scene abstraction. I liked how he focused on tones and colors and composition. I would like to do my project on something like this.
I really liked the Strand photographs we saw. I liked the way he emphasized line, texture, negative space, and shadows... as well as playing with different angles and close-ups. However, I also loved the Arnaud Claass photograph which focused so much on tonality and line. I would like to use either one of these photographers as a starting point...
I liked Mordrian's pictures, because of the simiplicity of the primary blocks of color that he used. I also enjoyed Pollack's work, which is almost in contrast to Mordrian's, because of the chaotic and busy nature of his paintings.
One of the most interesting artists to me was Harry Callahan. His photos were very minimalist yet also very beautiful and graceful. He was able to capture an aspect of nature that is often overlooked, and he did so by emphasizing simple lines and shapes, and making very high contrast photos.
I took a liking to the photograph that zoomed in on the the side of a run-down house/barn doorway. I would like to persue this idea of close-ups as they take away from the object's obvious nature, and focus more on its basic lines, shape, and texture.
I really liked the photogram by Man-Ray (the man who alledgedly brought back the photogram to the hiz-house). I think it will be fun of making a series of photograms... o! the possibilities!
Photograms of Man Ray stood out for me. I liked the idea of using simple shapes and forms. I also liked the work of H. Matisse: colorful structures that looked like a city. For this assignment I would either focus on composition and/or repetition or simplification. I would either do photograms or simplify/or create patterns using photoshop...
Artists that best expressed and explained the meaning and use of abstraction in the slide show to me were Burkynsky and Dow. Burkynsky's photo was a birds eye view of dense, recycled oil filters. At first the picture to me looked like an abstract painting of students in a big room, each with their own desk from a birds eye view. I slowly realized what the picture was of and was amazed.
The other artist, Dow, had a piece that was very simple and made me think a lot about abstraction and my project. Her picture, I'm not sure if it was a painting or a manipulated photograph, was of a house with telephone lines in front of it. Every shape that could be made out was one color and very basic colors at that. This picture is what jump started my thinking of the project design.
For my project, I was thinking of using abstract colors, and since I would be in the dark room I could use as few colors as black and white. I might take pictures of people in high contrast and make cutout stencils of their pictures. Then I will project the paper onto a blank piece of paper so that you can see what the image is, but only be looking at two colors. this will cut back on detail and show only two aspects of the picture: the shadows and the highlights.
The pictures by Strand most definitely stood out to me. We've seen these pictures before, and never until now have I ever really seen them as abstract. I love how he took a very simple object/group of objects (bowls) and made them interesting. I also think that his art appealed to me becuase it is similar to the style that I have picked up of close up pictures of inanimate objects.
Strand was my favorite abstract artist his pictures because his pictures of every day things were shot in a way that made even simple things like chairs and bowls look more interesting.
Vitkine was probably my favorite. I like his use of shapes and his pictures show that you dont need great detail to creat an interesting picture. i look forward to experimenting with highcontrast.
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Vitkine stood out to me. His pictures were just of wires and other electrical things that were shot against a white background. I thought the way he used high contrast to make the viewer focus on the simple forms of the wires and negative space works well.
tesla
I liked Pollack's work best. All the colors and lines were really beautiful. I liked how random it felt and a little chaotic.
haha i like these random foreign people posting on this. UMMM my favorite artists were claas (that guy standing on a sidewalk in the background) and yamamoto (the field). i love negative space and not a lot of details.
Strand's photos stood out to me the most. I really liked how he was able to take such normal every day objects and photograph them in a way where it took a second to really see what it was. I liked the technique he used of close ups, framing, tilting the picture frame, as well as the lighting.
I liked Paul Strand's photos and the way he made familiar objects not so familiar through his play with negative space and the framing of the objects.
Harry Callahan's photo of the weed close up really stood out to me, as well as all of his work. But i loved how in this photo he used close-up to turn the weed into something else (a dancer).
my favorites were strand,steiner and siskind. i out of the three i think i liked aaron sikind's photographs more because of the soft feeling the photographs give off and the way he takes recognizable things and makes them unrecognizable using certain framing.
Edward Burtynsky's work really stood out to me. I love how he made the old crushed oil cans into something beautiful and used repetition to transform this trash into something interesting and unique.
I really liked Vitkine because of the high contrast and the under exposed negative so that you could just see the outline or silohuete of the object.
Aaron Siskind was pretty cool. It took awhile to figure out his photograph and it really made me study and observe something I wouldn't have ordinarily. He used pretty obvious formulas for creating abstractionism, but he did it really well.
man ray was not bad also, but what else is new.
I really liked Yamamoto. I liked how he made the land and the sky seem really flat. It was a very intersting perspective.
I liked the piece by Yamamoto with the grassy hill and the sky shot at a tilted angle. I liked the beige sort of color that the photo was. When i looked at it i felt as if i could lose myself in the anonymity of the landscape... it was kind of bleak and dreary and it seemed as it it could go on forever. I liked it. Yays!
I enjoyed the photographs taken by Yamamoto and Bourke-White. I liked how Yamamoto's photograph was very simple and surreal. I also liked Bourke-White because of the repetition of the spools. I would like to use both simplification and repetition in my project.
The yarn photo by Margaret stood out to me. I liked how the angle was titled, the object was repeated, and it just kept on expanding past the frame. So i would like to do something that includes those elements.
I enjoyed Aaron Siskind's photography, and the way he used framing and close-ups to obscure the sense of scale. Siskind emphasized very detailed textures in buildings, paint, etc. I also liked the shapes and movement of nature in Harry Callahan's photograph of the dancing plant.
The artist that really stood out to me was Harry Callahan. We have seen him before , in other assignments, but never in this abstract, shape and form driven format. His work here, especially with the weed dancer, shows a wonderful display of lines, as well as tonality that creates something really beautiful. He finds his work of formality not in the industrialized world, but back in the world of nature. I would like to shoot something along the lines of form and structure in nature, creating images that are really close up.
I really liked liked Paul Stands work of the closeps of bowls, rock, and chair. I liked how he used simple everday objects and made them seem imortant and mysterious. I liked the techniques he used, like close up, and tilting the frame, and higher contrast.
For my project i was thinking of using things that like simple from far but close up are much more complicated using most of the degrees of abstraction.
I liked the pictures of Mordrian(this is spelled very wrong) and Hine. I liked the simplicity of the squares of color in Mordrian. In Hines picture I olved the shapes that the gaint wheel made.
there were 3 photographers that i liked from this project the first was the one who took the pictures of wires and printed them high contrast the second was the germen photographer who took picture of industrial thing and the last was a poloriod of a collar. i forgot the artists names.
-sean kostka
I liked Arnaud Class. The picture of the street with a building in the backround was an interesting way to make an everyday scene abstraction. I liked how he focused on tones and colors and composition. I would like to do my project on something like this.
I really liked the Strand photographs we saw. I liked the way he emphasized line, texture, negative space, and shadows... as well as playing with different angles and close-ups. However, I also loved the Arnaud Claass photograph which focused so much on tonality and line. I would like to use either one of these photographers as a starting point...
I liked Mordrian's pictures, because of the simiplicity of the primary blocks of color that he used. I also enjoyed Pollack's work, which is almost in contrast to Mordrian's, because of the chaotic and busy nature of his paintings.
One of the most interesting artists to me was Harry Callahan. His photos were very minimalist yet also very beautiful and graceful. He was able to capture an aspect of nature that is often overlooked, and he did so by emphasizing simple lines and shapes, and making very high contrast photos.
I took a liking to the photograph that zoomed in on the the side of a run-down house/barn doorway. I would like to persue this idea of close-ups as they take away from the object's obvious nature, and focus more on its basic lines, shape, and texture.
I really liked the photogram by Man-Ray (the man who alledgedly brought back the photogram to the hiz-house). I think it will be fun of making a series of photograms... o! the possibilities!
Photograms of Man Ray stood out for me. I liked the idea of using simple shapes and forms.
I also liked the work of H. Matisse: colorful structures that looked like a city.
For this assignment I would either focus on composition and/or repetition or simplification.
I would either do photograms or simplify/or create patterns using photoshop...
Artists that best expressed and explained the meaning and use of abstraction in the slide show to me were Burkynsky and Dow. Burkynsky's photo was a birds eye view of dense, recycled oil filters. At first the picture to me looked like an abstract painting of students in a big room, each with their own desk from a birds eye view. I slowly realized what the picture was of and was amazed.
The other artist, Dow, had a piece that was very simple and made me think a lot about abstraction and my project. Her picture, I'm not sure if it was a painting or a manipulated photograph, was of a house with telephone lines in front of it. Every shape that could be made out was one color and very basic colors at that. This picture is what jump started my thinking of the project design.
For my project, I was thinking of using abstract colors, and since I would be in the dark room I could use as few colors as black and white. I might take pictures of people in high contrast and make cutout stencils of their pictures. Then I will project the paper onto a blank piece of paper so that you can see what the image is, but only be looking at two colors. this will cut back on detail and show only two aspects of the picture: the shadows and the highlights.
The pictures by Strand most definitely stood out to me. We've seen these pictures before, and never until now have I ever really seen them as abstract. I love how he took a very simple object/group of objects (bowls) and made them interesting. I also think that his art appealed to me becuase it is similar to the style that I have picked up of close up pictures of inanimate objects.
Strand was my favorite abstract artist his pictures because his pictures of every day things were shot in a way that made even simple things like chairs and bowls look more interesting.
Vitkine was probably my favorite. I like his use of shapes and his pictures show that you dont need great detail to creat an interesting picture. i look forward to experimenting with highcontrast.
I want to use Paul Strand's photographs as a starting point and photograph the designs of cast iron fences and railings
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