Garden Abstracts and Circles Squared

[Rob MacKillop]

Loving exploring night light in the garden...

russet by RobMacKillop, on Flickr


Reds by RobMacKillop, on Flickr


reds in the flowers beds by RobMacKillop, on Flickr


Red Devils by RobMacKillop, on Flickr​

Circles Squared...

CirclesSquared by RobMacKillop, on Flickr​

 

[Brian Moore]

I like number 2 especially, Rob. Don't ask me why,...it just appeals on a visceral level. I like the thistle shape in "circles squared" too.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Brian. Where've you been?

Waking up this morning and seeing these shots again (which were done last night) I'm pleased with them, but, like Brian, I don't know why. Most of the time I'm trying to photograph things - objects, people, situations - but here I was trying to capture a mood, a feeling, without bothering about the thing behind it.

They were raw files, with almost no pp, maybe a little contrast added or subtracted, and into Nik Colour merely for a frame. So, mostly done in and with the camera.

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks, Brian. Where've you been?

I've been on holiday, Rob. Just got back to US yesterday. Spent a few days in Paris and then a couple of weeks in Applecross in the Western Highlands.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

#2 immediately jumped out to me as well

I think my brain like the image because it can sort of work out what's going on, there's just enough sharp subject to enable that to happen.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I know what you mean, Chris. The first one was almost binned, but I kept it, and then Julian said on Flickr that he really liked it. But, yes, the second one I find more "accessible". Also have a fondness for the fourth one, the Red Devils...

 

[Pete Askew]

It's number 2 for me too but again I'm not sure why. Probably in the same way I don't know why I like some of the abstract painting by Gerhard Richter! I like the last one also although I find it a bit too distinct. Another good potential early Floyd cover though!!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Might try a fine print of the second...

 

[Pete Askew]

Or do as Gerhard Richter did with his photorealistic works and reproduce it in oils on a 1m x 2m canvas!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Don't know if they can do that at my local Jessops...

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I've been looking at Richter's works since you mentioned him, and remember seeing his Nude Descending A Staircase, just last year. I like some of his works, the more abstract ones, but the series he did of smearing paint over photographs seemed a bit lazy, and didn't produce anything of worth. Interesting artist, though.

 

[Pete Askew]

I first became aware of his work properly when I saw the MoMA on tour exhibition in Berlin a few years back through the tryptich of paintings related to the funeral of the members of the Bader-Meinhof Group who were killed / killed themselves during the shootout before the arrest of the group. These are huge canvases and utterly stunning. Like you, I am not sure about his over-painted photos but his abstracts and photo-realistic work is stunning. And he is always trying new stuff and moving on.

Beerdigung - 1988

http://www.gerhard-richter.com/

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Interesting, Pete.