Topic: Show us some Abstracts! (Read 724405 times)

drmike · « **Reply #3780 on:** July 03, 2019, 12:37:48 pm »

Quote from: Jim Kasson on July 03, 2019, 11:30:21 am

About 1500 lines of Matlab code.

Thanks.

Jim

Ah, not the answer I expected but interesting.

Mike

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #3781 on:** July 03, 2019, 01:24:29 pm »

Aw shucks!
My Sony RX10III doesn't include Matlab. I can't find it anywhere in the menu.

John R · « **Reply #3782 on:** July 03, 2019, 02:11:07 pm »

Back to abstracts - semi, that is. With a little texture in the mix. From visit to Greenhouse.

JR

drmike · « **Reply #3783 on:** July 03, 2019, 03:34:58 pm »

I thought there was a thread for graphic images but I didn't find it so this is almost abstract.

Nice cacti by the by.

Mike

John R · « **Reply #3784 on:** July 03, 2019, 06:08:33 pm »

Quote from: drmike on July 03, 2019, 03:34:58 pm

I thought there was a thread for graphic images but I didn't find it so this is almost abstract.

Nice cacti by the by.

Mike

It's pretty good. Minimalist and abstract, despite fact we can recognize it.

JR

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #3785 on:** July 03, 2019, 06:53:57 pm »

Quote from: John R on July 03, 2019, 06:08:33 pm

It's pretty good. Minimalist and abstract, despite fact we can recognize it.

JR

I agree completely.

32BT · « **Reply #3786 on:** July 03, 2019, 07:10:53 pm »

Quote from: John R on July 03, 2019, 06:08:33 pm

It's pretty good. Minimalist and abstract, despite fact we can recognize it.

Minimalist, sure, but what makes it abstract?

John R · « **Reply #3787 on:** July 03, 2019, 07:48:03 pm »

Quote from: 32BT on July 03, 2019, 07:10:53 pm

Minimalist, sure, but what makes it abstract?

This thread allows for semi abstract and non representational imagery. So this qualifies. Sure, it's a sky, a wire and a lamp, but they are presented as shapes colours and an intriguing juxtaposition of the said elements, such that one realizes that this image is precisely more than the sum of its obvious parts.

JR

32BT · « **Reply #3788 on:** July 03, 2019, 08:03:04 pm »

Ah, but I have no problem with it being posted here. It's fine, fits right in. But still makes for interesting discussion regarding abstract. I mean, if you really feel there are distinct abstract qualities, what are they? Is it the flatness of the blue sky? Kind of like an abstract blue canvas with an abstracted line which is ambiguous because it could be electricity, but could easily be something else? The lamppost kind of triggering this idea?

Personally, I think it doesn't abstract anything, and therefore it is not abstract at all. It's teetering on the edge of impressionist, in the sense that it has a distinct minimalist collage feeling to it. Three elements that have some meaning when combined. It's potentially interesting as an art expression, but not an abstraction in any sense of the word.

Good contribution, evenso.

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #3789 on:** July 03, 2019, 10:23:40 pm »

Quote from: John R on July 03, 2019, 07:48:03 pm

This thread allows for semi abstract and non representational imagery. So this qualifies. Sure, it's a sky, a wire and a lamp, but they are presented as shapes colours and an intriguing juxtaposition of the said elements, such that one realizes that this image is precisely more than the sum of its obvious parts.

JR

Exactly.
As the originator of this thread I would prefer that it not degenerate into a definitional discussion, as happens too often (in my opinion) in other threads. I suggest that anyone who wants to argue with my admittedly loose definition of "Abstract" should read the comments I have made earlier in this thread about what qualifies.

drmike · « **Reply #3790 on:** July 04, 2019, 03:33:40 am »

I don't think my photograph is particularly abstract but I don't care much (and I think it's in the spirit of the thread).

However, I would say I'm not inviting you to look at a lamp, nor a wire nor a beautiful sky.

I'm inviting you to marvel at the interplay between the wire and lamp against a lustrous background of solid blue. I could not care less that it's a lamp or a wire but I do care about the simplicity of the arrangement.

I almost didn't take the photograph as I thought nah, no-one would look at this twice, but then I thought; I would and took it. As you might imagine it took hours of careful consideration to snap. In fact saw and shot in under 10 seconds. Not much thought but some observation.

Mike

32BT · « **Reply #3791 on:** July 04, 2019, 10:36:36 am »

Sprezzatura

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #3792 on:** July 04, 2019, 10:41:52 am »

Quote from: drmike on July 04, 2019, 03:33:40 am

I don't think my photograph is particularly abstract but I don't care much (and I think it's in the spirit of the thread).

However, I would say I'm not inviting you to look at a lamp, nor a wire nor a beautiful sky.

I'm inviting you to marvel at the interplay between the wire and lamp against a lustrous background of solid blue. I could not care less that it's a lamp or a wire but I do care about the simplicity of the arrangement.

I almost didn't take the photograph as I thought nah, no-one would look at this twice, but then I thought; I would and took it. As you might imagine it took hours of careful consideration to snap. In fact saw and shot in under 10 seconds. Not much thought but some observation.

Mike

Right on.

Maybe I should have called the thread "Show us some images that I will like!"

Yours certainly fits (and it is sufficiently abstract for me, for just the reasone you explained.)

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #3793 on:** July 04, 2019, 10:43:19 am »

Quote from: 32BT on July 04, 2019, 10:36:36 am

Sprezzatura

That is quite excellent. And yes, it is more purely "abstract" than some others in this thread.
I like it a lot.

32BT · « **Reply #3794 on:** July 04, 2019, 11:54:37 am »

Nozzlecheck

John R · « **Reply #3795 on:** July 04, 2019, 01:04:13 pm »

Quote from: 32BT on July 03, 2019, 08:03:04 pm

...It's teetering on the edge of impressionist, in the sense that it has a distinct minimalist collage feeling to it. Three elements that have some meaning when combined. It's potentially interesting as an art expression, but not an abstraction in any sense of the word.

Good contribution, evenso.

I confess I know little about abstract art or its history. You evidently do. I often see on YouTube many images similar to mine, Mike's or Jim's, and some like Eric's street and intimate small landscapes, and people refer to them, loosely, as abstract. I take your point, so on with this show.

Really like 'Sprezzatura', very abstract. Also like this Nozzzlecheck. Perhaps you will influence us at LuLa in new directions.

JR

John R · « **Reply #3796 on:** July 04, 2019, 01:16:21 pm »

From my Daily Walk.

32BT · « **Reply #3797 on:** July 04, 2019, 01:26:34 pm »

Krautrock!

drmike · « **Reply #3798 on:** July 04, 2019, 01:53:31 pm »

Nozzle check - no idea why but it makes me smile.

Good photograph as well but it seems to have built in joy.

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #3799 on:** July 04, 2019, 02:18:05 pm »

Quote from: drmike on July 04, 2019, 01:53:31 pm

Nozzle check - no idea why but it makes me smile.

Good photograph as well but it seems to have built in joy.

Well said.
Nice catch.

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