Sam Choisy is a personal friend and an artist The Luminous Landscape profiled last year. Sam is a French transplant to Canada who carries a very palpably French sensibility in his abstract, romantic, vibrantly contemporary art. His work is entirely singular and based on a unique and intimate method. Sam teaches his approach and philosophy, a hands-on, very immersive … [Read more...]
Between Heaven and Here with Osheen Harruthoonyan
Photography has long opened its doors to abstraction, impressionism, and any number of imported refinements from other mediums. It has, in turn, enhanced and stimulated other mediums, such as painting and even music. The captured image; both still and moving, has continued to penetrate our culture and psychology in ways with which we can hardly keep up. We dream of pictures … [Read more...]
Triptychs Part 2 of 3: Color Examples
As artists we must find those who believe in us, and in whom we believe, and band together for support, encouragement and protection Julia Cameron 1 - Introduction Just like I did for my previous series of essays on abstract landscape photography, I decided to separate the examples for this series on Triptychs in two different essays, one for color examples and one for … [Read more...]
Abstraction Part 5 – Color Examples
If I choose abstraction over reality it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. Robert Brault 1 - Introduction This essay features a variety of examples of color abstract photographs. These examples are presented by categories of images. These categories are organized by subject. For each subject the type of abstraction is listed. This is the first of 2 essays … [Read more...]
