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06/06/2014 08:06:18 AM · #1 |
This is the first for me, so trying to understand a photographers style and we have to re-create it.
So my understanding is that we try to get photographs like he did..
I did a google search and I am not getting it or it doesn't fit my jive of photography, but I think this will be an awesome thing to learn of other's ways and styles. I never heard of him until now LOL
There are not too many objects that has these kind of colors or patterns so with me not being an artist would it be more of a filter that we can apply to obtain that kind of abstracted style? |
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06/06/2014 09:36:24 AM · #2 |
I have never heard of him but I think I have something in mind that may match his style pretty good
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06/06/2014 09:37:04 AM · #3 |
by  hajeka
Message edited by author 2014-06-06 09:38:10. |
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06/06/2014 10:23:11 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by jgirl57:
This is the first for me, so trying to understand a photographers style and we have to re-create it.
So my understanding is that we try to get photographs like he did. |
Mondrian was a painter, not a photographer... |
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06/06/2014 10:27:57 AM · #5 |
I entered this in a challenge a while back, and my TPL teammate banmorn commented "Mondrian!" so I went with it.
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06/06/2014 10:36:55 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by jgirl57:
This is the first for me, so trying to understand a photographers style and we have to re-create it.
So my understanding is that we try to get photographs like he did. |
Mondrian was a painter, not a photographer... |
Hey Robert, aren't you supposed to be doped out resting? Great to see your presence again |
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06/06/2014 10:51:41 AM · #7 |
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06/06/2014 11:34:10 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by jgirl57:
This is the first for me, so trying to understand a photographers style and we have to re-create it.
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the challenge title or description says nothing of the sort ;)
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06/06/2014 11:35:49 AM · #9 |
| "In Paris, Mondrian was introduced to jazz which the black American soldiers who had remained there after WW1 had brought with them, starting a cultural tsunami with the introduction of American bars and with them the Shimmy, the Foxtrot and the One-step. This music epitomised for Mondrian the primacy of rhythm and beat, as opposed to what Janssen called 'decorative emptiness', a term which could apply equally to music and art" |
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06/06/2014 11:43:18 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by P-A-U-L:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by jgirl57:
This is the first for me, so trying to understand a photographers style and we have to re-create it.
So my understanding is that we try to get photographs like he did. |
Mondrian was a painter, not a photographer... |
Hey Robert, aren't you supposed to be doped out resting? Great to see your presence again |
haha for sure!! Welcome back good to see you are doing ok!
For him just goes to show what I know.. nothing in this field LOL
Thanks for the description of that Don, I am getting a cultural taste.. |
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06/06/2014 05:25:31 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by pixelpig:
by hajeka |
No change for a remake of this cake :( Mondrian is about lines and basic colors for me |
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06/06/2014 07:11:58 PM · #12 |
| Just think of the Partridge family bus for inspiration. |
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06/06/2014 11:14:23 PM · #13 |
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06/07/2014 12:30:35 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by P-A-U-L:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by jgirl57:
This is the first for me, so trying to understand a photographers style and we have to re-create it.
So my understanding is that we try to get photographs like he did. |
Mondrian was a painter, not a photographer... |
Hey Robert, aren't you supposed to be doped out resting? Great to see your presence again |
I am second to Paul, should you be resting at this time? I will re-iterate the same as Paul, good to see you back Robert! |
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06/07/2014 05:41:57 PM · #15 |
The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and his life is becoming more and more abstract. Natural (external) things become more and more automatic, and we observe that out vital attention fastens more and more on internal things⦠â¦Modern man âalthough a unity of body, mind and soul â exhibits a changed consciousness: every expression of his life has today a different aspect, that is, an aspect more positively abstract.
It is the same with art. Art will become the product of another duality in man: the product of cultivated externality and of inwardness deepened and more conscious. As a pure representation of the human mind, art will express itself in an aesthetically purified, that is to say, abstract form.
P. Mondrian 1917 |
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06/09/2014 06:15:54 PM · #16 |
Has anyone shared this link? Apologies if it's old hat. I just thought this showed better than many of the others how his style changed - IMO there's way more variety to this challenge possible than the link in the challenge submit would indicate.
//www.pietmondrian.info/mondrian-at-a-glance/mondrian-at-a-glance.html |
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06/09/2014 06:23:23 PM · #17 |
| I like the link you provided Nikki, so I made it click through. In looking at his stuff it reminded me of the line about Woody Allen movies, "I especially like your early, funny ones.â I enjoyed seeing how he got to his iconic geometry, but, you know, I especially like the early prettier ones. |
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06/09/2014 08:05:43 PM · #18 |
| thank you (both Nikki and Brennan) for the link, and I certainly prefer the earlier works, although it is the tiniest move towards the abstract that is tantalizing; I think the last stage must truly appeal to the most spiritually adept, of which I am not one; I do suspect that my wanting to say Sterile, Arid, Dry, Fleshless, misses a possible subtle profundity, but in the end I am more interested in a kind of balancing act - not to be confused with balance. |
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06/09/2014 08:48:55 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
I like the link you provided Nikki, so I made it click through. In looking at his stuff it reminded me of the line about Woody Allen movies, "I especially like your early, funny ones.â I enjoyed seeing how he got to his iconic geometry, but, you know, I especially like the early prettier ones. |
Thanks, Brennan. I know how to do that but completely forgot to do it - something about watching my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter for the last three days and trying to do just about everything with her either underfoot, chattering away, or on my lap :)
Of course the problem with using anything but his last stage work is that the link in the challenge description itself gives the idea that that's all it is - and many of the images that turn up are not Mondrian but works by others "in the style of" him. Most voters will not be following this thread nor will they be doing their own research before voting.
Message edited by author 2014-06-09 20:49:31. |
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06/09/2014 10:53:51 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by nam:
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
I like the link you provided Nikki, so I made it click through. In looking at his stuff it reminded me of the line about Woody Allen movies, "I especially like your early, funny ones.â I enjoyed seeing how he got to his iconic geometry, but, you know, I especially like the early prettier ones. |
Thanks, Brennan. I know how to do that but completely forgot to do it - something about watching my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter for the last three days and trying to do just about everything with her either underfoot, chattering away, or on my lap :)
Of course the problem with using anything but his last stage work is that the link in the challenge description itself gives the idea that that's all it is - and many of the images that turn up are not Mondrian but works by others "in the style of" him. Most voters will not be following this thread nor will they be doing their own research before voting. |
You got that right Nikki. This challenge is a bit of a nonsense. There is no "in the style of Mondrian" - why not call a "primary color plus white geometry challenge" or a "parody of Mondrian" |
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06/09/2014 11:02:00 PM · #21 |
Who even thought of this one???
His stuff is quite boring IMHO! |
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06/09/2014 11:10:24 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Neat:
Who even thought of this one???
His stuff is quite boring IMHO! |
Wrong thread. Try this one.
Message edited by author 2014-06-09 23:10:37. |
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06/09/2014 11:16:02 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Neat:
Who even thought of this one???
His stuff is quite boring IMHO! |
I'm afraid you applied the wrong label Anita. Mondrian could be as boring as Gaudi for instance - meaning that they are so personal that one cannot imitate them, to say it bluntly. They did not create a style. To look quickly at Mondrian or Gaudi for that matter, would mean just looking for a formula. |
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06/10/2014 12:19:30 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by mariuca:
Originally posted by Neat:
Who even thought of this one???
His stuff is quite boring IMHO! |
I'm afraid you applied the wrong label Anita. Mondrian could be as boring as Gaudi for instance - meaning that they are so personal that one cannot imitate them, to say it bluntly. They did not create a style. To look quickly at Mondrian or Gaudi for that matter, would mean just looking for a formula. |
Oh that is so well said! I was just thinking the same, but couldn't find the words. Once Mondrian did what he did, there was no point in doing it again. It's so personal. To really do 'in the style of Mondrian' would mean spending years going through the same process of distillation--& every individual would reach their own personal destination. |
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06/10/2014 12:23:38 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by tnun:
thank you (both Nikki and Brennan) for the link, and I certainly prefer the earlier works, although it is the tiniest move towards the abstract that is tantalizing; I think the last stage must truly appeal to the most spiritually adept, of which I am not one; I do suspect that my wanting to say Sterile, Arid, Dry, Fleshless, misses a possible subtle profundity, but in the end I am more interested in a kind of balancing act - not to be confused with balance. |
I agree. It is the transition to abstraction that interests me.
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