Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses colour and form in a non-representational way. Abstraction is based on sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.
But it’s a missconcept to believe that nature can not offer abstractions without human touch. The easiest way of understanding is by following this example:
Look at a tree in a way you usually do and your first thought will probably be the so called “lonely tree” theme for your shoot. But then look again at the details of the tree: the patterns of the leaves, the texture of the tree stamp, sometimes the shape of the roots. Once you look only at the picture of such parts of a tree, you begin to understand what an interesting network of colours and shapes you got. Eye caching, is it not?
Tags: abstract art, abstraction, nature, texture, sensation, pattern
March 6th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Trees are my favorite subject. There is so much different things from one to another. Like you said in your article it’s the shape, textures and colors but it also depends a lot on lighting. Light is pretty important, especially for textures and colors, it can be a matter of making a good or poor picture. If you’re interested I’d like to share a picture I took a couple of months ago the textures, colors amazed me.