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A photographer solves a picture
“When three-dimensional space is projected monocularly on to a plane, relationships are created that did not exist before the picture was taken. Things in the […]
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Proto Abstraction in Photography
Proto Abstraction What I call ‘proto abstraction’ can, as the name implies, be considered a way-stage on the road to abstraction proper. It typically depicts […]
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Urge to abstraction: order and regularity
The art historian, Wilhelm Worringer, wrote a dissertation in 1906, which became his famous Abstraction and Empathy. […] Worringer stated that modern aesthetics was based […]
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Beauty and Form
Aesthetics is usually defined as “a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful and with judgments concerning beauty.” I recall the endurance […]