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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.

Banking with Smoke and Mirrors

A dusk view of a Bank of America ATM site, with lots of glass, diffraction and some saturation boosting.

Found Art

Lamp and Shadow

Highline Architecture

Gemini

Atmospherics

Here’s a moody, motion-blurred shot of roadside trees, taken hand-held at night through the window of a speeding car with the hint of some street lights.

“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

Genesis 1:2

Slinky Bench

Art from the Side

This is the side view of 2 artworks that are made up of items embedded in layers of lucite (perspex), creating a an interesting 3-dimensional effect when viewed from the front. I can’t remember the name of the artist or the gallery and couldn’t recover them on the web.