It seems the variety of styles and genres in photography is really innumerable. There are as many types of photographic art as you can invent. But some of them have recently become so popular and trendy that their domination is obvious. The type I’m speaking about is conventionally called abstract photography (though in fact, it takes advantage of concrete objects more or less often) and it is gaining more and more popularity among both professionals and amateurs in photography. Abstract photography is defined as "the photographic art dealing with the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them”. But now that I brood over the term "abstract photography”, I eventually come to the conclusion that it denotes just the opposite thing. Like no other style in photography, abstract one is the most concrete and real in its choice of objects or their parts. What is being delivered with the help of abstract photography might be called "a non-meaningful beauty”. And one other point to support my view is that an abstract picture usually keeps us concentrated on one chief central image. But in distinction from conceptual photography, abstract photoart does not transmit any solid notion, or concept. It employs radically different techniques. By taking the essence of the photo or a portion of the photo and by using color or the form in an aesthetic arrangement or combination, the photographic abstraction becomes art. Abstract photography leaves more to the imagination and helps you concentrate on texture, form and colour rather than the whole subject. At times people say they just do not get abstract art when it is a painting. But abstract photography has an entirely different effect on the audience. It almost has a magnetic challenge to the mind to figure out what it is. And it really moves people, makes them appreciate the things they do not normally notice. In its turn, abstract photography can be subdivided into several minor types: light and shadow photography, smoke, mirror, photography of microworld, which may also be of different kinds – black-and-white, colour, and sepia. Manipulating with textures and colours, focal length and photometric brightness, one can produce high-grade pictures clearly standing out of the beaten track. Abstract photography always involves seeing beyond the reality to see abstractions of photographic subject matter. Here I want to share with your some of my favourite abstract snapshots. If they really have some appeal to you, as they do to me, please submit a comment saying what you think of abstract photography, what comes to your mind or inspire you when looking at the art.
Abstract fotography (or painting) is quite a specific kind of art. Only people who have a vivid imagination understand it. And when they are looking at such a photography, different thoughts, images and pictures come to their mind. Unfortunately, other people just see, for example, some lines and colours. I think understanding this kind of art is a gift. To tell the truth, I can't say that I'm fond of it, but sometimes I'm really amazed by some abstract pictures.
You are quite right saying that it requires imagination to get the essence of an abstract photo. But the aesthetic impression you get when looking at the picture is pretty much the same even if you're not a connoisseur. You feel your senses are drawn apart from their usual place, your eyes fixed on the image, your nerves fluttering on the unexpected rate of vibration, new ideas pouring into your brain. You start discovering the hidden; you are fumbling in your mind for words to describe your state. In vain, though.
I agree that abstractionism is great art.. and abstract painting or fotography meake us think about a lot of things.... . I am interested only in abstract photograghy. but I don`t like abstract painting actually. I believe it isn`t realistic. I can`t explain it. But it is my opinion
This is one of the points I've actually actually written about in my article dedicated to abstract vs. classic photography. Abstract photography is not the same as abstract painting. No matter what a photographer is going to imprint, he inevitably uses an existing object and phenomena whereas a painter is free to create a myth, a nonentity. Probably that is the reason why many people discount the artistic value of abstract paintings.
I also like abstract photography. I think it lets one see his/her own sense in the snapshot. The picture reveals one some general ideas. When I look at such photos, I understand that every time I look at them I see something more, finding some hidden messages. It's really an interesting phenomenon.
Maybe I have not already got the essence of abstract pictures, but for me they do not communicate any concept except the concept of beauty that might be seen and shown in multiple forms and from various angles. It is really a kind of art existing for the sake of art. But at the same time it makes people learn to view the world and every piece of it through a pair of fairy spectacles which enable us to see the things in a radically different way.
I adore these photos. I would like to insist that abstract photography, like abstract painting, is quite a realisitc art. Another thing is that it is the subject itself that can be reinterpreted in many ways. This subject exists in this multilayer world. Are we able to see everything there is? Looking at the photos like those above, your eye is supposed to travel the lines, the contours, the shapes, the spaces and to feel, to touch, to smell, to move, to see the colours, light and shade, to recognize all of these and build a thought about it or express an attitude. Photography like this is a representation of the unseen or unnoticed, something that can or may or could or might or must be grasped and internalized.
The multilayer world? Wow, it seems the most precise definition of abstract photography one can ever come up to! It turns out that every object we see can be embodied into a picture, but this picture allows us to understand that the object itself has become different as if it were viewed from another strata of space, time and thought.
Yes, that's the way I understand and know. ANother thing is that these objects are various, miscellaneous. A real physical object, like watch, put or seen in an usual setting, where it oughtn't to be because it doesn;t belong there. E.g.: a wrist watch on a pillow in a cradle with a child, eyes closed or open fixed on the face of the watch. Just a watch and just a child and just in a cradle. Of course it comes to expressionism.
Sounds interesting - "draw the things that I like". Do you mean things that you see around? Have you ever seen your anger walking near you, on one leg, limping and spitting? Have you ever fought with jealousy so that your eyes went out of the orbits? Have you ever thought of a drop of your tear in which you can read big letters that say why you are crying? Have you ever walked together with you happiness hand in hand so that the whole world is yours? Isn't it reality? Do you think youmay like it? Do you think you would like to draw it so that others understand your inner world which is so heavenly simple and loving?
I want you to understand one thing that I think I understand. When we say ABSTRACT photography or painting, we mean to say that we show just an abstract, just a little piece of something bigger, just a tiny spec, just a little part of a bigger whole magnified to the extent that it now becomes a new object on its own. For example, the torn edges of an envelope. Use colour, light, shade and that's it. Beyond this reality, there is a whole world of thoughts and suppositions, guesses... Abstractionism - a abstract/piece of reality which is physically real, but which we often never notice.
I've never thought it's a realistic art. Actually, I was sure it's something really adstract and not applied to life. But your idea gave me a lot to think about. I mean not abstract art only but some other notions that we use in our everyday life.
oh... you make me laugh!) I have never drawn anything like abstractionism. I always draw the things that I like.
