Animals Illuminated by the Sun

The time of sunset is defined in astronomy as the moment when the trailing edge of the Sun’s disk disappears below the horizon in the west. There are few things in nature as photogenic as the sky at sunset, especially animals. The rich bright gold, pink and orange colors make unusually beautiful pictures of animals illuminated by the sun.

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Sandra McCabe's Micro/Nature photography

Sandra McCabe's Micro photography a journey between abstraction, fine art and nature photography.

I mentioned in last post about the abstract effect of natural forms in emotional side of human brain....
here is a great example of micro photography that is associated with nature photography but can be categorized as emotional fine art...

"Macro photography. A journey into amazement"

Every little thing has it's own beauty or strangeness and this is what draws me to macro. Nearly all my photos are taken using hand held. A tripod annoys me no end sometimes I use basic editing, such a contrast or a bit of cropping. If I change the image too much, then it is not my photo. I'm still learning and that upward curve is steep but such enjoyment, awe and fun comes from that learning. (Sandra McCabe)

Sandra McCabe

Joseph Beuys the German experimental artist

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys was a German multi- and mixed-media artist best known for incorporating ideas of humanism, social philosophy and politics into his art. Beuys practiced everything from installation and performance art to traditional painting and "social sculpture." He was continually motivated by the belief of universal human creativity.

 

One of Joseph Beuys's most theatrical installations, Blitzschlag mit Lichtschein auf Hirsch (Lightning with Stag in Its Glare) articulates the German artist's obsession with primal and elemental forces: the earth, animals, excrement, and death.

Beuys's work certainly served, in its initial contact with an audience, as a diversion. But to regard his work simply as an entertainment to nullify the realities in which it was created, is to miss the point of its revolutionary nature. For Beuys, a moment of rapture in engagement with an art article, or art as a respite from the daily grind, is a sentimental act that has no purpose in today's world.

He calls for nothing less than a complete overhaul of that system in which art is a product of a consumer society who needs paintings to decorate walls, to use as barter, or to receive momentary uplifting. "Art is," he said, "a genuinely human medium for revolutionary change in the sense of completing the transformation from a sick world to a healthy one." (Beuys quoted in Quartetto, exhibition catalog, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1984, Milano, p. 106)

"... just as you have come to me, because of what I've made, and we can talk about it ..."Beuys

links:

www.ubu.com

www.walkerart.org

www.artchive.com

www.diaart.org

www.guggenheim.org

ww.theartstory.org

Sleeping people

Sleeping people 

Sleeping people, like passengers in one's life, asleep through awakedness, existing unawakened, our lives lost between our fingers as we think death does not apply to us.
Reveries of the sleep walker, the insomniac and the dreamer...


Gallery for this photo series from sandra torralba

fotoblur

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