In a message dated 3/19/2009 9:26:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, p...@web-options.com writes: that's a perfect example of equivocation. Abstraction in painting refers to the removal (ie abstraction) of representation & subject matter from paintings, leaving only the formal properties of point, line, surface, volume, space, form, tone and colour. That's the type of abstraction you refer to when you first use the word - abstraction opposed to representation.
You then use abstract in opposition to concrete, though I question whether many of your examples are abstract, such as emotions, wealth and power. That is not what abstraction in painting refers to. Mondrian, Kandinsky, Pollock and others are classic examples of abstraction in painting. The purpose is nothing to do with the concepts you list (except in so far as art is a means to wealth, power and strife!), rather the purpose is to make the formal properties themselves the subject of the work. This is not possible with photography because of its inherent relationship with subject matter and our expectations that photographs are 'of' something. So-called abstract photographs always end up as some sort of party game where people try to guess what they are of. Bob =========== You refer, of course, only to unmanipulated photographs. Marnie aka Doe :-) --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make meals for Under $10. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000002) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
