The name "vaseux" is French, meaning muddy or murky, which is descriptive of the lake's silty water. The lake was likely named by French Canadian fur traders.

Vaseaux Lake features a variety of wetland and foreshore habitats that support large populations of migratory bird species along the inland portion of the Pacific Flyway. Bird species of note include trumpeter swan, great blue heron, western screech-owl, yellow-breasted chat, and the red-listed Lewis's woodpecker. It is for these reasons that the Canadian Wildlife Service designated the lake and its foreshore a Migratory Bird Sanctuary in 1923.

The semi-arid grasslands and forests surrounding the lake are also of ecological importance, and are protected within several different national and provincial protected areas. In 1956, the provincial government established Vaseux Lake Provincial Park at the northeastern end of the lake to providing space for recreation while also ensuring the ecological integrity of the lake's foreshore in this area is preserved.

In 1979, the Canadian Wildlife Service established Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area to protect winter rangeland for California Bighorn Sheep.[6] The provincial government added on to this nature preserve by establishing Vaseux Protected Area in 2001. (Wikipedia).

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Looking down the length of Vaseux Lake. It doesn't seem murky to me. We did see plenty of birds, though :-)

Vaseux Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. June 2022.

In Greek mythology, Phoebe is one of the original Titans, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia. The word itself means bright and radiant, qualities pretty much the opposite of the eastern phoebe. So what does any of this have to do with how the eastern phoebe got its name? Absolutely nothing.

Instead, the name comes from the call these birds make: FEE-BEE. Unromantic, but descriptively accurate. Sort of like the killdeer, which couldn't harm Bambi even if it wanted to, but does make the sound KILL-DEER. Scientifically, the eastern phoebe is known as Sayornis phoebe, and is a member of Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatcher family. It's the largest and most diverse bird families in the world, with members found in almost all of the Western Hemisphere.

Eastern phoebes are mostly migratory birds, breeding during the summer in Canada's far north and most of the eastern United States, traveling south into Florida, Mexico and parts of the Caribbean to spend the winter. Generally, they are found year-round in the Southeast but north of Florida; in recent decades, however, there have been a few eastern phoebes found nesting ias far south as Everglades National Park. Most, however, arrive here in September and October, and return north in March and April.

I found this one along Joe Overstreet Road in Osceola County, Florida.

“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” - Eliot’s Erwith

This is another attempt to do a black and white image. The wonderful play of light and shadow on the snowy hill seemed to lend itself to a monochrome edit. Happy Monochrome Monday!

Picture taken in Madrid, nearby the Plaza Mayor, under clear sky. Shadows of the small balconies are creating a powerful effect on the flat surface of the facade.

Many of the formations are given descriptive names – sculpted by the harsh desert winds into weird shapes which constantly change over time. There are ‘monoliths’ and ‘mushrooms’, ‘ice cream cones’, ‘tents’ and ‘crickets’, as well as the majestic conical flat-topped ‘inselbergs’, to name but a few of the formations.

Beyond this in the ‘New Desert’ which is only accessible by 4WD or camel, the landscape becomes even whiter. The boulders crowd together, are higher and larger and everywhere weird shapes appear that might remind you of a chicken or a hawk, a troupe of dancers or an old men wearing a hat. The shapes change constantly as the light changes and you move around them and as the sun begins to set they turn a softly glowing pink.

The title refers to a dip in the dock or a dip in the water or both. It is funny that the dock only fell in right in the middle. It looks like a lot of the decking boards are missing. I think the entire dock would have to be repaired which is running about twenty thousand dollars right now. My guess is that this is a dangerous, deteriorated, decayed, defunct dock. I am sure I am missing some descriptive “D” words. Have at it please. The more the better.

“Plicata” is a descriptive term for irises that have patterns of stitched, stippled or banded colors contrasting with the base color. I think that's a great description for this cattleya orchid. Seen at the 2017 San Francisco Orchid Exposition.

Hope you have a great weekend ahead! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your visits, comments, awards and faves - I appreciate them all.

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Very descriptive title, but well, it is in case someone is curious watching the thumbnail and theydont want to go all the way to the description.

"Sapsucker," is an appropriate descriptive name for this woodpecker. It consumes insects, arthropods, fruit and seeds, but its usual and main source of food is the sap of a tree. This is attained by drilling shallow holes in a tree called "sap wells," and using its specially adapted, brush tipped tongue, to lap up the syrup.

The Sapsucker is highly territorial of its sap tree and often nests in or near the tree. I have seen maple trees with so many Sapsucker holes in it that portions of the tree above the holes were dying because of the loss of sap. Josephine Co., OR

Select one descriptive word here:

List A

1. Striped

2. Jagged

3. Delicate

4. Curved

5. Metallic

Select one object to photograph:

List B

1. Pottery

2. Insect

3. Stone

4. Brush

5. Basket

Metallic brush : Found in my husband's hobby workshop ! :-)

Pity that collembola do not belong to the insect group, otherwise there would certainly have been a springtail here !!!

Zerene stack : 50

A stamped metal wall on which the letter M is attached, illuminated by the sun on the side. I stood in such a way that I was looking exactly at the front of the letter, which was unfolded only by the shadow. The shadow cast makes the semantics. Isn't that worth noting?

Castildetierra is the descriptive name of an incredible geological formation of the type known as Cabezo that is part of the semi-desert landscape of the Bardenas Reales Natural Park and Biosphere Reserve, located southeast of Navarra.

Castildetierra es el descriptivo nombre de una increíble formación geológica del tipo conocido como cabezo que forma parte del paisaje semidesértico del Parque Natural y Reserva de la Biosfera de Bardenas Reales, ubicado al sureste de Navarra.

Linda Lake, British Columbia, Canada

The first time I saw this pleasant subalpine lake I was struck by its undisturbable tranquility and uncompromised color quality. When it comes to a near flawless landscape, the art is deciding on which descriptive elements to use.

It was the triangular mountain base adorned with vivid green trees and pointing arrow-like into the deep forest, which caught my eye. The still lake surface shows perfect reflective symmetry, the mirror illusion being especially intensified along the line where water and land meet, appearing almost unreal. It is an impressive experience to see exact symmetry displayed so boldly in nature. Despite the powerful mirror-symmetry, I decided to pull viewers back to an asymmetric macro world by including foreground rocks to provide a sense of depth.

a descriptive medium, one which in a single picture can give certain kinds of description in a way that is wholly beyond the power of words :-)

Ralph Evans

HSS!! Character Matters!

chrysanthemum, 'Shizu Aki', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

Descriptive name! Riverdale Park, MD

Coccinellidae is a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (British English, Australian English, South African English), ladybugs (North American English) or lady beetles (preferred by some scientists). Lesser-used names include ladyclock, lady cow, and lady fly.

They are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, head and antennae. A very large number of species are mostly or entirely black, grey, or brown and may be difficult for non-entomologists to recognize as coccinellids (and, conversely, there are many small beetles that are easily mistaken as such, like tortoise beetles).

Coccinellids are found worldwide, with over 5,000 species described, more than 450 native to North America alone.

A few species are pests in North America and Europe, but they are generally considered useful insects as many species feed on aphids or scale insects, which are pests in gardens, agricultural fields, orchards, and similar places. The Mall of America, for instance, releases thousands of ladybugs into its indoor park as a natural means of pest control for its gardens.

I used Meta AI for this title. I'm not a fan of AI, but my son convinced me to give it a try. Glad I did. I photographed this at the House on the Rock in Wisconsin.

Between Dodgeville and Spring Green, Wisconsin.

What can I say about this tourist attraction...interesting, weird, odd, amazing, peculiar, creepy, bizarre and cool are just a few descriptive words. If you would like to know more about this place, search (house on the rock wikipedia). I can't even begin to explain this place. My son (also a photographer) went with me. He describes it like a house in a weird dream. There is no information about most of the items in the house. It's a crazy fun place, and takes hours to go through. We felt a little hurried near the end, so we may have to go again someday.

Thanks for views, comments and favs :)

The descriptively-named small white butterfly (Pieris rapae) feeding on lavender. Nottinghamshire, UK

The descriptive term morro is common to the Spanish (e.g. El Morro in Havana), Portuguese and Italian languages, and the word is part of many place names where there is a distinctive and prominent rock formation. Note that the similar Spanish descriptive word "moro" indicates a bluish color rather than a shape. Morro Bay is on the Central California coast.

A descriptive term used to identify small pieces of iceberg ice. This one could be an aggregate of large chunks of pack ice. It was lodged close to shore at Bauline, NL

Camera: Hasselblad 500 C/M medium format film camera

Lens: Carl Zeiss f/2.8 80mm Planar lens.

Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400 120 Black and White.

Scanned by Walkens House of Film, Melbourne, Australia

[A warning to the reader: Everything I say here is descriptive, not prescriptive. I have no desire to convert you to any belief system. But it does us well to contemplate more deeply the riches of human thought and the following Buddhist text is nothing if not rich in content and importance.]

The Avatamsaka Sutra (the Sanskrit word for a spiritual teaching) was composed in various stages about 500 years after the death of Gautama Buddha. This puts it in about the same time as Jesus of Nazareth in Palestine. It is one of the most important scriptures in Mahayana Buddhism in East Asia, and the title could be translated as “Buddha's Fine Garland”.

www.pure-land-buddhism.com/other-sutras/the-avatamsaka-sutra

It begins in book one by recounting the moment when Gautama Buddha (6th-5th century BCE) achieved Full Awareness under the Bodhi Tree at Bodh Gaya (in the modern Indian state of Bihar).

“Thus have I heard. At one time the Buddha was in the land of Magadha (a kingdom in ancient India, in the eastern Ganges Plain), in a state of purity, at the site of enlightenment, having just realised true awareness….”

For more than 1,500 pages in Thomas Cleary’s phenomenal 1993 translation it seeks to provide sentient beings (true pilgrims in life) with a path of knowledge to Enlightenment. But perhaps the entire text, and fundamental principles of Buddhist philosophy, can be summarised by the following 11 stanzas:

“He who realises that the nature of things is without solidity

Appears in all the boundless lands of the ten directions:

Expounding the inconceivability of the realm of buddhahood, He causes all to return to the ocean of liberation.

This is the entry way of Wonderful Sound.”

I am not very much interested in Buddhism as a religious phenomenon. To be fair to most versions of Buddhism though, it is far more inclusive than the Abrahamic religions. That’s the problem with monotheism. One God brooks no rivals, and history is littered with examples of people killing in the name of their tribal God (“Their ignorance and pollution of views are much to be feared.”). But Buddhism is quite unique in the fact that it has no Gods. No need for a God in a Cosmos that is itself an Eternal cycle of birth-death-rebirth for all sentient beings (including all animal species) and even our own universe has been recycled over and over again according to modern cosmologists. These philosophical statements are packed with relevance for us all, and perhaps it takes Enlightenment to make sense of it all.

But we should not be so crass as to interpret these ideas literally. They do their most serious work on our psyche. That is why my interest in Buddhism is as one of the most comprehensive and profound systems of psychology. The Buddha is to my mind the greatest psychologist who ever lived, far more profound than Sigmund Freud or C.G. Jung (and Carl Jung would agree with me, I’m sure, given his extensive knowledge of eastern thought).

[I can recommend wholeheartedly the late Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Understanding Our Mind (Parallax Press, 2006) – a Buddhist psychology which seeks to interpret the meaning of consciousness.]

We are indeed, “sunk in an ocean of afflictions” created in no small measure by cravings: For ego, things, success, ecstasy, habits, immortality (though Buddhists see this as the ultimate problem that Nirvana frees us from). But equally we can become enslaved to fear, doubts, anxiety in all its forms, arrogance and a search for certainty. The results of this “ignorance and pollution of views are much to be feared”, because we repeat an endless cycle of merciless injustice and hatred of the “Other” (i.e. those who are not like “us”). And so human history is a history of warfare, no matter how well-intentioned most people are in personal face-to-face encounters. We are sick and in need of a mental physician. Buddhism is probably the most comprehensive program ever developed along these lines.

We must not allow ourselves to be ignorant of such a rich and powerful resource. Perhaps a good place to start would be Stephen Batchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening (Bloomsbury, 1997).

Καλημέρα!

Good morning!

💚 In the highlands of Scotland, people used to wear green as a mark of honor.

🌰 The Japanese do not have a specific word for brown. Rather, they use more descriptive names such as “tea-color,” “fox-color,” and “fallen-leaf.”

Let's find the color Brown & Green in nature!

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The descriptive name stems from the cliff's distinctive multitudinous check lines in cross-bedded white sandstone which give the impression of a checkerboard. The horizontal lines are caused by cross-bedding, a remnant of ancient sand dunes. The vertical and sub-vertical lines formed by the contraction and expansion of the sandstone caused by temperature changes, freezing and thawing cycles, in combination with wetting and drying.

Descriptive label from a 1.5 lb jar of white sand that is in my collection of props for table-taop photography.

Focus stack (18 images) Shot with single off-camer strobe (Godox AD200Pro/Godox XPro II L trigger), round head, camera right 30 degrees 45 degrees bove table aimed at 8 x 10 inch white reflector camera left, angled toward front of subject, 4 x 5 inch mirror on table surface in front of jar. Reflectors used to minimize hot-spots on label.

Shot for Macro Mondays - "ONE WORD"

subject area 25 mm (h) x 53.5 mm (w)

"Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretative." - Elliott Erwitt

My husband has been doing some amazing black and white images and the ones that truly surprise me are the ones he does of flowers. I am always drawn to the colors of the blooms but he has shown me that the patterns and textures are more visible when done in B&W. This is going out of my comfort zone to try a purple Iris in monochrome. Although the original color is beautiful, I was mainly enticed by the speckled lower petal on this bloom. By taking away the color, that pattern shows up much better. Thanks to my hubby for the inspiration and a few tips to try. I shall need some practice. :)

You can check out some of Bert's work here:

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Swamp rat is a rather descriptive nickname for the Nutria. They are large rodents that live in fresh water habitats across several mostly coastal states. Native to South America they were brought to the U.S. by fur traders in the 1800's. When the fur markets started to collapse in the mid 1900's, nutria farmers released their animals and they have thrived in the wild. They are now considered to be one of the most harmful invasive species.

I photographed this one munching on some floating vegetation in Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina.

Not the most descriptive title....anyone want to help me out on what buildings these are? I liked the vast difference in their architecture up there.

Thanks Zoltaan and CB804! These are: 333 North Michigan - Aon Center - Two Prudential Plaza - London Guarantee Building

For my official site and inquiries, please visit photography.JosephLekas.com

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The descriptive name stems from the cliff's distinctive multitudinous check lines in cross-bedded white sandstone which give the impression of a checkerboard. The horizontal lines are caused by cross-bedding, a remnant of ancient sand dunes. The vertical and sub-vertical lines formed by the contraction and expansion of the sandstone caused by temperature changes, freezing and thawing cycles, in combination with wetting and drying.

Again, forgive me for flora descriptive errors if any here… the State Flower of Oregon! An evergreen shrub that thrives in shaded gardens. Reaches three to six ft (90-180 cm) and spreads two to five ft (60-150 cm). The holly-like leaves emerge bronze-red in spring, mature to glossy dark green by summer, and turn deep burgundy in fall. In spring, it produces racemes of cheerful, bright golden-yellow flowers. After flowering, clusters of dark blue-purple, edible berries appear in late summer, attractive to birds and wildlife but can also be used to make excellent jellies!

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One descriptive word

1. Striped

2. Jagged

3. Delicate

4. Curved

5. Metallic

One object

1. Pottery

2. Insect

3. Stone

4. Brush

5. Basket

Some butterflies have very descriptive names. This is a male Mexican bluewing (Myscelia ethusa), also known as the blue wing and it is mainly found in Mexico though strays can be found quite far north in Texas and as far south as Costa Rica. The "blue wing" part, I'm sure you agree to be very obvious.

This was, as most of my shots from the Haga Ocean butterfly house, shot using a tripod and a wired remote shutter to allow for longer exposure times without blur. Me and Mr. Bluewing here had a little trouble syncing our movements so it took a while before I got an acceptable shot.

Once I had set my rig up and gotten focus just right on the eyes, he decided to sit with the wings closed for a while - or simply move a bit, forcing me to start over.

It came out fine in the end though.

Descriptives already used include: magical, fairytale like, dreamscape, otherworldly, mystical, enchanted, beautiful and mysterious.

Yes, in other words, this would be Panther Creek Falls, a place that ranks (currently) in my top four for waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest. It's not an easy place to shoot, despite all that crazy beauty, and I was quite pleased to come away with this shot, which showcases some of the amazing details this falls has and yet manages (I think) to avoid looking too "busy".

Taken with my Nikon FM.

The title is pretty self-descriptive. Balanced Rock, Arches National Park, Utah.

Once again, I had a wonderful time with some amazing people. You know who you are. Thank you!!

Not much to report from this location. It's a stunning drive through Arches National Park and Balanced Rock is right off the road but just because it is, does it make it less worth shooting than other locations which require some hiking to get to? No, definitely not, but it requires some extra effort to get something new, something that has not been done a million times before, but only 3729 times.

I am not claiming there was no Photoshop involved. So there, purists! Blend of two exposures. One for the foreground: 15 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 400. One for the Milky Way: 20seconds, f/2.8, ISO 800.

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The 1/21/19 theme for Macro Mondays is Pick Two, one from a list of descriptive words and one from a list of nouns. So, I picked damaged glass.

Truth contained

Surface appearance

Objectivity peripheral

These are the tutorials I managed to put together during 2018. Not that many, but still a number of them. Most of them were nature themed, and about half of them were a result of my Element Experimentation builds.

Making tutorials is a rather different experience as compared to normal building. It takes a great deal of time and effort to put a tutorial together, compared to making regular builds. You have to take many pictures, think through the flow of the technique and write good descriptive texts for each picture. Tutorials also play out differently on different platforms, so often you have to create multiple versions of the tutorial to fit the platforms you post on.

Also, for me, pretty much all tutorials I make are of techniques I've already showcased in builds before, so tutorials doesn't bring anything new to the table - it just shows how a previously used technique is made.

These two things combined makes tutorial making more of a chore than fun, to be honest. It's a lot of work and it doesn't result in a nice new build. So why do it?

I have personally learned loads from tutorials made by others, and so I have reaped the benefits of their hard work with very little effort on my side. So, making tutorials of your techniques is a way of contributing back to the LEGO community. It may not be the most fun, or get you the most likes or comments, but it's still a satisfying experience knowing that you have given something back.

And of course it puts a smile on your face when you see people starting to use your techniques in their own builds :) I have noticed that both my spruce techniques are seeing quite some use these days, so that's something I'm really happy about :)

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To see in colour is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.

Andri Cauldwell

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Color is descriptive.

Black and white is interpretive.

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Sometimes even the most simple descriptive titles sound like a Dr. Seuss poem.

This shot is from mid-February during the very early part of the “superbloom” that is taking over many of the desert areas out west. Bluebonnets are a type of lupine. Compared to the lupines we have here in Maine and New Hampshire they are quite a bit smaller, but just as beautiful when they cover an otherwise barren desert. This was my first time seeing flowers in the desert, and it was quite a sight.

The Milky Way didn’t really get up above the hill here until just after astronomical twilight started before sunrise, so the sky is very blue from the scattered sunlight (like daytime) since it was not full darkness.

Nikon Z 6 with FTZ adapter and NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm. Blend of 12 total images. The sky is from 10 exposures at ISO 3200 @ f/2.8 and 10 seconds each, star stacked with Starry Landscape (Mac only) for pinpoint stars and low noise. On Windows you can use Sequator for star stacking with landscapes. Photoshop can do it but it’s a manual pain in the butt and doesn’t always work. The foreground is from 2 exposures, both at f/11 and 30 seconds, but one was at ISO 800 and the other was at ISO 100. I pulled in focus to get the very close bluebonnets in focus in one of the shots. The scene was getting bright quickly as the sun was approaching the horizon, and in the 6 minutes that passed between the foreground shots that I ended up using (I was taking another foreground shot in between and checking out previous shots, etc) there was enough light that I could do ISO 100 at 30 seconds instead of 800 at 30 seconds. I kept the foreground exposures to 30 seconds to minimize any movement in the flowers from the wind, but I was lucky and it was just about dead calm, which was almost eerie in a very dark place in the middle of nowhere without any noise other than my own movements.

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What a striking native moth this is. Monotypic, the only species within genus Melanodes, family Geometridae.

The binomial of Melanodes anthracitaria is perfectly descriptive.

This image taken with flash presents dark, but to the naked eye, almost fully black and so dynamic.

Also an interesting species because the caterpillars and the moths both have two forms. The caterpillars can be either green or brown and the adult moths either fully dark as here or the other having pale yellow banding on the wings.

Larvae have been observed feasting on Eucalyptus gum tree leaves, family Myrtaceae.

I believe this is a female going on the wingspan which was 55 mm.

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Divers artistes.

Paris, 1931 – après une évolution de la tendance générale vers l’art figuratif dans les années 1920 finissantes, Theo van Doesburg, Auguste Herbin, Jean Hélion et Georges Vantongerloo fondent le groupe Abstraction-Création, comptant ainsi contrer l’influence des surréalistes menés par André Breton.

La situation est similaire aujourd’hui. L’abstraction dans la peinture peut-elle révéler une nouvelle manière d’aborder l’art ? Constitue-t-elle une réponse plus adaptée aux questions émergentes, loin des sujets, récits et autres thèmes de l’art figuratif ?

L’histoire du Consortium Museum est profondément enracinée dans l’abstraction et le minimalisme, qui ont enrichi notre jeunesse et alimenté nos rêves utopiques d’un monde meilleur imaginé par des artistes et architectes progressistes – principalement des hommes...

Heureusement, dans les années 1980, les modernismes non-occidentaux, les récits non binaires et le pouvoir des femmes ont remis en question nos certitudes, ouvrant la voie à un monde plus équilibré dans lequel passion et avidité, opportunisme et engagement authentique, talent et compétence coexistaient, et coexistent toujours pour l’instant. Mais rien n’est encore complètement figé.

L’exposition que nous organisons met en lumière ces stratégies formelles, suscitant un lyrisme renouvelé à travers un sentiment de distance et de confort.

Le titre 20 under 40 peut sonner comme un énième slogan, mais l’âge de 40 ans marque une frontière intangible et subjective entre le statut de jeune artiste et celui d’artiste au mi-temps de sa carrière. Nous avons porté notre regard sur les plus jeunes car ils-elles ont généralement leur propre logique et une approche non conventionnelle de l’art abstrait, surtout quand il s’agit de peinture. Gestuelle vs narration, expressivité vs construction, non-représentation vs personnages et paysages, ornemental vs descriptif, et ainsi de suite – une génération éclectique qui relève le défi moderne de se mesurer à la longue histoire de la peinture abstraite – son avenir se trouve entre leurs jeunes mains. Ce qui ne veut pas dire qu’ils-elles se voient non-figuratif pour toujours !

— Franck Gautherot & Seungduk Kim

Various artists.

Paris, 1931 – after a shift in the general trend towards figurative art in the late 1920s, Theo van Doesburg, Auguste Herbin, Jean Hélion and Georges Vantongerloo founded the Abstraction-Création group, hoping to counter the influence of the surrealists led by André Breton.

The situation is similar today. Can abstraction in painting reveal a new way of approaching art? Is it a more appropriate response to emerging questions, far from the subjects, narratives and other themes of figurative art?

The Consortium Museum’s history is deeply rooted in abstraction and minimalism, which enriched our youth and fueled our utopian dreams of a better world imagined by progressive artists and architects – mostly men…

Fortunately, in the 1980s, non-Western modernisms, non-binary narratives, and the power of women challenged our certainties, paving the way for a more balanced world in which passion and greed, opportunism and genuine commitment, talent and skill coexisted, and still do for now. But nothing is completely fixed yet.

The exhibition we are organizing highlights these formal strategies, eliciting a renewed lyricism through a sense of distance and comfort.

The title 20 under 40 may sound like yet another slogan, but the age of 40 marks an intangible and subjective boundary between being a young artist and being a mid-career artist. We focused on the younger generation because they usually have their own logic and an unconventional approach to abstract art, especially when it comes to painting. Gesture vs. narrative, expressiveness vs. construction, non-representation vs. figures and landscapes, ornamental vs. descriptive, and so on—an eclectic generation that is taking on the modern challenge of measuring itself against the long history of abstract painting—its future lies in their young hands. Which is not to say that they see themselves as non-figurative forever! — Franck Gautherot & Seungduk Kim