Abstract Digital Photo Images

One of the neat things about the abstract-expressionism of artists like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock that we studied last month in Painting class, is that it can be done in any media, not just painting. Here are some beautiful images that I captured with a digital camera and embelished a little bit in PhotoShop. I think they envoke mood and experience, perhaps even tragically like Rothko and definitely are records of movement and action and dancing colors like Pollock.


The hidden images that these abstractions were based on? I hesitate to tell you because then you'll be robbed of your independent and subjective powers of interpretation. (In other words, they'll lose their mystique and become mundane once you find out) Okay, I'll tell ya, the first three are a cell phone during a night time bus ride home from a basketball game. The last one? Through the lense of an overhead projector just after the light was turned off. It had a cell of a line drawing on the glass plate underneath.

A couple of male teachers commented on kids' Jackson Pollock paintings hanging in our display cases- they said that some of them looked like they were paintings of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." and they "just didn't get it." Not everybody does. Fear no Art!