8,758 to 9,017 of 10,000 hours mastering photography through structured deliberate practice
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Top Image
“Canary Wharf Timeshift Diptych”
Experimental diptych presentation of a structured multiple exposure; split along a natural divide in the image
Other Images
“Mr Pirate” was an attendee at the Chiltern Open Air Museum’s “Ragged Victorians” event on 18th August
Fabulous eyes, used in the image below
“Insight”
Inspired by both Magritte’s 1935 “The Portrait” and the news that my “Magritte Hat Pipe Flower & Cloud” image won a gold medal in the East Asian Salon
“The Distorted Voice of Space”
Again based on a Magritte painting. The challenge was making the orbs (cow bells) look connected via shadows and refections
“Poetry and Acrobatics 10-ptych”
Shot at a poetry and artistic acrobatic dance performance at a fan zone during the Paris Olympics
“Jardin du Luxembourg”
Shot early in the morning during the Paris Olympics
“Three Generations of Strong Women”
“Seated Woman in Jeans and Green Sweater”
“Surreal Dunescape”
A high contrast mono processing of a Namibian Dunescape, making it look other worldly
“Biomorphic Sand Swirl”
Another mono version of a Namibian Dunescape/ sandstorm, this time with human curves
Distinctions
One print acceptance away from an EFAIP
Magritte style self-portraiture continues to be my favoured route to an FRPS, although uncertainty surrounds which genre would be most appropriate
New Artists
1st July: Susan Rothenberg (b. 1945 and still alive at time of writing) – paintings, particularly those of a horse, synthesise abstraction and figuration. Her horse paintings, specifically, have been compared to Jasper Johns’ American Flag series, in terms of both there functioning as part of a series and there importance in the history of art
3rd July: Giuseppe Arcimoldo (1525-1593), a “proto-surrealist” like Hieronymous Bosch only 100 years later. Who, quite unlike Bosch, painted people as a composition of fruit or other inanimate objects, such as books in the case of “the librarian”
29th July: Bang Hai Ja (1937-2022), a gentle feminine approach to abstract expressionism. A gentle version of Pollock or Rothko – see my post “Five Hours at the Pompidou Centre” for more details (also Degottex and Holzer)
29th July: Jean Degottex (1918-1988) – lyrical abstract painting, totally devoid of all subjectivity
29th July: Jenny Holzer (1950 – ) – American conceptual or neo-conceptual artist using words delivered in public places or large installations, e.g., the repetitious flyers of 25 Inflammatory Essays, pasted to the walls in both the Take Modern (Blavatnik Building) seen on 14th February 2019 or the Pompidou Centre
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