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Sliding Down
Camera:Nikon Coolpix S570
MISSION
Minimalism
Though never a self-proclaimed movement, Minimalism refers to painting or sculpture made with an extreme economy of means and reduced to the essentials of geometric abstraction. It applies to sculptural works by such artists as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, and Anne Truitt; to the shaped and striped canvases of Frank Stella; and to paintings by Jo Baer, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Robert Ryman. Minimalist art is generally characterized by precise, hard-edged, unitary geometric forms; rigid planes of color—usually cool hues or commercially mixed colors, or sometimes just a single color; nonhierarchical, mathematically regular compositions, often based on a grid; the reduction to pure self-referential form, emptied of all external references; and an anonymous surface appearance, without any gestural inflection. As a result of these formal attributes, this art has also been referred to as ABC art, Cool art, Imageless Pop, Literalist art, Object art, and Primary Structure art. Minimalist art shares Pop arts rejection of the artistic subjectivity and heroic gesture of Abstract Expressionism. In Minimal art what is important is the phenomenological basis of the viewers experience, how he or she perceives the internal relationships among the parts of the work and of the parts to the whole, as in the gestalt aspect of Morriss sculpture. The repetition of forms in Minimalist sculpture serves to emphasize the subtle differences in the perception of those forms in space and time as the spectators viewpoint shifts in time and space.
TECHNICAL
Exposure:0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture:f/2.7
Focal Length:5 mm
ISO Speed:80
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:Off, Did not fire
WIT
I went out yesterday to take pictures of both minimalism and Eggleston with my cousin, Courtney (Shadeauxe). Before we left, I took some pictures around the yard. This one is the underside of the little used slide in our front yard.
Minimalism was a difficult assignment for me because, unlike some, I don't like patterns. I prefer the wabi sabi, imperfect view on life. I think that that is why I was drawn to this picture. While it is minimalist in it's simplicity and geometric pattern, there are also anomalies that make it imperfect.
POST PROCESSING
Just a basic crop and straighten.
Sliding Down
Camera:Nikon Coolpix S570
MISSION
Minimalism
Though never a self-proclaimed movement, Minimalism refers to painting or sculpture made with an extreme economy of means and reduced to the essentials of geometric abstraction. It applies to sculptural works by such artists as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, and Anne Truitt; to the shaped and striped canvases of Frank Stella; and to paintings by Jo Baer, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Robert Ryman. Minimalist art is generally characterized by precise, hard-edged, unitary geometric forms; rigid planes of color—usually cool hues or commercially mixed colors, or sometimes just a single color; nonhierarchical, mathematically regular compositions, often based on a grid; the reduction to pure self-referential form, emptied of all external references; and an anonymous surface appearance, without any gestural inflection. As a result of these formal attributes, this art has also been referred to as ABC art, Cool art, Imageless Pop, Literalist art, Object art, and Primary Structure art. Minimalist art shares Pop arts rejection of the artistic subjectivity and heroic gesture of Abstract Expressionism. In Minimal art what is important is the phenomenological basis of the viewers experience, how he or she perceives the internal relationships among the parts of the work and of the parts to the whole, as in the gestalt aspect of Morriss sculpture. The repetition of forms in Minimalist sculpture serves to emphasize the subtle differences in the perception of those forms in space and time as the spectators viewpoint shifts in time and space.
TECHNICAL
Exposure:0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture:f/2.7
Focal Length:5 mm
ISO Speed:80
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:Off, Did not fire
WIT
I went out yesterday to take pictures of both minimalism and Eggleston with my cousin, Courtney (Shadeauxe). Before we left, I took some pictures around the yard. This one is the underside of the little used slide in our front yard.
Minimalism was a difficult assignment for me because, unlike some, I don't like patterns. I prefer the wabi sabi, imperfect view on life. I think that that is why I was drawn to this picture. While it is minimalist in it's simplicity and geometric pattern, there are also anomalies that make it imperfect.
POST PROCESSING
Just a basic crop and straighten.