Shiva Natarajah
Tag: abstract
Found Art
This is the back of some kind of vending machine or display case in a shop in the newish underground arcade in the Columbus Circle subway station
Guggenheim
The Guggenheim is such a designed space that one can hardly look in any direction without seeing an abstract composition. I never fail to take such pictures at each visit.
Emergency Exit
Stout Water
Part of the Guinness Storehouse tour takes you past this waterfall with explanations of the importance of the water used in the making of Guinness Stout.
Lights
Museum of the City of New York
More of the fascinating light fixture in the entrance hall of the Museum. Click any image to see them all larger.
Hotel Room View
Deep Listening
Went to See the Henri Cartier-Bresson show at the Rubin Museum: India in Full Frame – very impressive work as usual. then made our way down the central, spiral staircase (last post) to see the other exhibits.
AirTrain Terminal
Denver Blues
Water and de-icer streaming across my airplane window.
Cubism
I saw this through a stairwell window outside the first Paula Cooper Gallery’s Pfeiffer installation.
Metal!
Crossing the street from the Neto installation I came to another Paula Cooper Gallery, this one featuring the sculpture of Mark di Suvero.
Bus Window
Used focus-peaking to home in on the rain stains on the bus window for this color palette.
Nightscapes
So here was a little artistic experiment. Hurtling down I-95 at around 65 miles an hour at night, I took a series of shots of passing trees with a glowing sky behind as we approached Providence, Rhode Island. I shot in program mode, achieving shutter speeds of around 1/2 to 1.7 seconds. In Lightroom I opened up the exposures, softened with massive noise reduction, reduced the contrast while boosting the clarity and, in some cases, boosted the vibrance. I also added a vignette to some of them. I rather like them…
The Apotheosis of the Absorption of the Ambient
Gerhard Richter.
“…Purged of all evidence of the maker’s presence, they absorb as their content the ambient world before them in all its transitory serendipity. Subsuming spectators into that fluctuating matrix, depriving them of any clear, fixed, stable relationship to space and place, his mirrors seductively undermine the viewers’ authorial independence and autonomy by dissembling traditional hieratic perspectival systems of perception.” Read more…
Cold, Northern Self-Portrait
“…Besides the panels of photographs, he incorporated three panes of colored glass—two in royal blue, evoking the cold northern sky, and one in golden yellow, redolent of the southern sun—that might be thought of as filters through which the remaining panels are seen.”
A Shimmering Collapse of Decreated Sharpness
I like landscapes that suggest prehistory,” said Smithson. The countless fragments of shattered glass that form Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis) (1969) are layered both literally and figuratively. As the title implies, the sculpture is to be seen not simply as a pile of sharp, transparent fragments but also as a map of a legendary lost continent. “It is a shimmering collapse of decreated sharpness . . . arrested by the friction of stability.” Similar to other fictive territories, Map of Broken Glass foreshadows Smithson’s most ambitious realization: a spiral-shaped artificial peninsula made out of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks named Spiral Jetty, which he built in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, in 1970. Read more…
Famous Cream Song
Robert Ryman
The principal concern of Robert Ryman’s painting can be illuminated by an observation the artist made in the late 1960s, that “there is never a question of what to paint, but only how to paint.” For Ryman, this “how” of painting has always been about what he has described as “getting the paint across”—meaning, literally, getting the paint across the surface, but also, more idiomatically, getting the idea of the painting across to the viewer. “What is done with paint is the essence of all painting,” he once declared. “What painting is, is exactly what people see.” Read more…
Chandelier Abstract
Inversion Practice
Some very interesting lens aberration here in the Sigma 30mm f2.8 e-mount lens. Notice the reversed, upside-down, green-tinged image of the walking man from the street-light, hovering on his head near the top of the mail box.