This is a minimalist landscape, inspired from Geraldo de Barros. I used the least amount of black paper possible while attempting to have enough elements to be mildly interesting- It is obviously an urban landscape a peers comment mentioned a resemblance of the well knows greek architecture from 6th century BCE to 9th century BCE., constructed of pillars and triangular tops. To slightly fill in the large amount of space, I introduced bird- resembling shapes, either flying or landing.
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Geraldo De Barros is a Brazilian painter and photographer who, concerning his photography, was known for the abstract greyscale photographs he took and edited manually. This is a good example of this- this is a negative of a photograph, manually edited by cutting areas inside the tree and placing the subject against a black back round which further accentuates the more intricate details of the tree,
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This picture is an example of a minimalist landscape by Liz Nielsen, "gardening with you". It is essentially a negative, with the black parts just deciphering objects typically found in natural landscapes- for example there is a bush, and a bin with some sort of gardening tool propped up against it. I find the rough, coherent shapes interesting as they obviously have not, in the making, required a lot of precision. Nielsen explains that during Covid- 19, access to facilities and resources were restricted, therefore a lot of her work pieces in that time period were similar to ones like this. The style is very similar to her other works, however one of the major factors (colour palette) was changed which drew attention to this style of work.
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This is a negative of the minimalistic landscape I made using black card and white paper, using the least amount of card as possible- similar to Nielsen's "gardening with you". Secondly I used an enlarger, used to create photographic prints on the light sensitive paper which was underneath the original. After a certain amount of time, long enough to produce clear lines, the negative was placed in developer liquid, converting a latent image into a clearer picture. I then took the developing negative and used 3 more liquids, all part of the process of producing a clear negative- the stop, fix and wash. I think this one was successful due to the predominantly clear lines as well as the even black tone and its contrast with the white.
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This is the second half of the task, the first half being from above- this is a manually edited version of the negative, and the simple action of dripping developer from the left side at an angle resulted in the somewhat abstract lines running across the image horizontally.Personally I prefer this edited version to the original for various reasons.
Firstly, I think the first one was too minimalist- barely any information serving as a reason for me to be interested in any way-there is more information to focus on here. Looking more precisely, I think the actual landscape has quite a different ambience- more turbulent, more descriptive of a chaotic climate, almost imitating some kind of storm. |
The image shown on the left is a picture of my collage I made with a mix of coloured paper and card, from either old books or magazines. It is supposed to look like a natural landscape, consisting of various mountains covered with snow against a dark back round, showing a night sky which explains the lack of colour variation and dark/black shades. I added a hint of yellow to show the presence of emerging daylight and created layers with the different types of paper mentioned above. I think it does look roughly how I wanted it to look- however there was a lack of paper shades and colours I would have preferred to use, which I think would have made it more visually interesting.
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