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This series of images was taken on visits to the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California over an eight year period.
I usually find this type of modern architecture sterile, but here the architect Richard Meier created spaces that are not only pleasant to be in but include interesting lines, windows, angles, curves, and textures in almost every view. Looking abstractly at these details reveals patterns that capture my eye as a photographer, and as many visual artists know, once you notice something like this, it’s hard to let go of it. I continue to visit the Getty and add to this collection.
Here's the entire set so far: Getty Center Abstractions
I have a show of these images coming up next month. If you're in the area stop by.
Getty Center Abstractions
Photographs by Richard Wanderman
Opening Saturday, January 7, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Artist’s talk: 3:45 pm followed by reception
January 7 – April 14, 2012
Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm
Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery
Wisdom House
229 East Litchfield Rd.
Litchfield, CT 06759
860-567-3163
2008-2009 / C-Print / 125x125cm
Details Abstractions /
«The evolution of architectural detail, that transforms to an individual element full of technical esthetics and beauty.»
Детальные абстракции /
«Эволюция архитектурной детали, трансформирующейся в самостоятельный элемент полный технической эстетики.»
Multiple photo transfers from color laser copies (must be powder inks) (Nuexpression does mine on Jonestown Road, Winston-Salem, NC) using CitraSolv Concentrate onto silk scarf then overpainted with dyes by Mary Bailey Thomas of Studios 625 in the Downtown Arts District in Winston-Salem, NC.
I have a thing for sewer grates. I like their geometries and the opportunity for abstraction, thereby. I also love all the unique effects that their various locations uniquely bring them. Someone spilled white paint on this grate and it gives a lovely 'random', organic quality to the straight lines and angles. The wear and tear of traffic and the vicissitudes of the weather all combine to work in different textural markings too. In warmer weather, collections of seeds, keys, petals and the miniscule flotsam of city life collect and sometimes clog them, all to great effect. They're like snowflakes, metallic snowflakes.
This and the following 6 images were all derived from/inspired by photographs I took of an orange and two tomatoes! Miracles of modern technology - the images, not the fruit :) Although, having said that ......... !
Los Angeles, California. Every time I get to the Getty I'm astounded by the architecture. The architect Richard Meier put incredible lines, windows, angles, curves, and textures in almost every view. You look up, down, across and through in almost any place you can get to and there are things of interest to see.
Looking at the details of this architecture abstractly reminds me of the work of Kandinsky and other Bauhaus painters and architects as well as the Russian Supremists and I wanted to make a small collection to attempt to document that.
Part of the series: Getty Center Abstractions
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She key word for this card is "abstractions" which fits with the abstract main sketch, and the work of philosophers in the small sketch.
The main sketch is an abstract done more or less at random but a more complex one.
The small sketch at the side is a copy of one by Hans Holbein in Erasmus' book, the Praise of Folly.
round the edge
abstractions
Erasmus' "Praise of Folly" loves to mock
The scientists whose pride he wants to knock.
From landscape, portrait , third way showed the feel
Of life - or shapes 'n colours to appeal.
A simple plan - or of it, make a meal?
Abstractions can be painted into art.
Kandinsky's new field sells well in the mart.