Pushing Forward with "Pushing Out" a.k.a. the Image Compositional Element referred to as "REPOUSSOIR" ~ Creative Arts Three Day Weekend
When we last met, a conversation around a photo posted by Kavika, was inadvertently cut short by ME in that I closed the article not realizing there was more discussion to be had.
Start here …
https://thenewstalkers.com/a-macarthur/group_discuss/19379/early-bird-special-posting-early-tonight-busy-family-weekend#cm2039679
I commented regarding compositional elements of the image, namely "trees" that bracketed an excellent image, "pushing out" in such a way as to keep a viewer's eye in the image. I noted that the term for such an element is "repoussoir" - In two-dimensional works of art, such as painting, printmaking, photography or bas-relief, repoussoir is an object along the right or left foreground that directs the viewer's eye into the composition by bracketing the edge.
So, to bring this full circle so-to-speak, this week's article will start with where we left off …
All related comments and/or images are welcomed, as is anything creative, directly related, or, totally otherwise.
Royal Gorge Suspension Bridge, Canyon City, Colorado, 1997
© A. MacA.G.
Fairly obvious example of "repoussoir" elements created by the ends of the bridge.
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Nice bridge. It appears to be a pedestrian bridge, but I can't make out how anyone gets on it at this end.
I can't open what you posted.
did you feed and pet the mountain rats begging in the parking lot? meh, at least they're edible...
I can't clearly recall ever being on that bridge, but I rode a rubber raft through the rapids in the canyon below it and a helicopter ride over it. don't forget to vote this article up art lovers.
Evening... riding rapids in a rubber ducky...here that equals croc bait..🐊
no worries. the water in that river was ice and snow on a mountain not many hours before.
The photo of the bridge is a beauty, Mac.
This photo was taken a few days ago at ''Gibbs Gardens'' close to Big Canoe, GA. The garden is 378 acres and one section is 30 acres dedicated to the ''Japanese Garden'' with over 30 types of Japanese maple in it.
This is the first of a few of the photos I took there and will add more tomorrow or Saturday.
That is a truly beautiful garden, and a photo that does it justice.
Evening... absolutely stunning..love Maple trees but unfortunately we don't have a great deal of them here..
All introduced but they certainly do stand out...
I grew up with maple trees, all kinds, at almost every home I ever lived in, but then maple trees are really common in Canada - think of the flag.
There are lots of water lilies here and I have a lot of photos of them but yours is the prettiest one I've ever seen.
I love water lilies and yours is a beauty, shona.
That is a very pretty water lily.
Thank you gs..it grew to big for one container so ended up plonking it into the fish bowl as it was empty..
Seems very happy and last year it sent out four flowers..just rather unfortunate about the gold fish but Kookas love them.
I heard a Kookaburra this morning nearby laughing probably checking out to see if there were any fish in the bowl...
That is an incredibly beautiful photo. There is a 6.5 acre Japanese Garden a few miles from where I live. The garden is adjacent to a water reclamation plant and is irrigated entirely by wastewater. I will post some photos one of these times.
Looking forward to seeing them, G.
My main contribution to this article is my treatise on frames and framing which was posted actually years ago on the Group Pages for this group. If anyone has any comment about anything in that treatise, please post it here instead of on the comment wall under the treatise itself. I would have locked it, but that possibility does not exist on the original treatise. Here is a link to the original treatise.
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The Tower of Buddhist Incense, Summer Palace, Beijing
© G. Gam
LOL. Nice photo, but you can't tell me you wrote those Chinese words and affixed that stamp. That is a man-made lake that is very shallow.
I have an interesting story about this photo from the Summer Palace. Many years ago a client of mine gave me the finest lovely embroidery of a boat in China but I had no idea if it was of anything real. We framed it and hung it. During Christmas of 2006. around 4 months after I arrived in China a fellow teacher who was from Sri Lanka and I took a tour of Beijing, the Wall, the Ming Tombs and the Summer Palace. As we walked around the Summer Palace we came upon that "boat" that isn't actually a boat since it would never float - it was the exact image of the embroidery. So I had this photo taken of me to send to my soon to be ex-wife (divorce proceedings were almost final) who had possession of the embroidery to show her that the embroidery was an almost photographic image of that very "boat".
The characters say "Tower of Buddhist Incense, Summer Palace", which is the scene in the image. The stamp was given to me by my Chinese brush painting teacher back in 1982 and says "Quan", which he said is the closest thing in Chinese to my last name, and is also the name of a great figure from Chinese history. I have used that stamp on several images that I have posted on here, including one from last week.
Ha, your stamp, G.
I have one as well somewhere in all my stuff
heh, a squared quan stamp...
Holy smoke. I've been here for more than 17 years and I never got one. All I ever got was a certificate that I was on The Great Wall.
When we were in China I saw several shops that sold them. You can get a customized one if you want, if they can figure out some Chinese equivalent for "Buzz". You can even order one on the internet. With free shipping within mainland China!
Since I already had mine, and since my parents had several souvenir ones from their trip to China many years ago that I inherited, I did not get one on our trip. I did get a beautiful jade disc in Xi'an, though. I did not get a certificate that I was on the Great Wall. Oh, well...
Your stamp or ''Chop'' as it is more widely known is your mark on China. As for not getting a certificate for being on the Great Wall I'll go over this with you again. That was Mr. Chen's back fence you were sitting on after having too many ganbei's at the local watering hole.
Yes, my Chinese brush painting teacher, who was from mainland China, always called it a "chop". And he got one to match my last name as close as he could.
Too many ganbeis is why I keep forgetting it was Mr. Chen's back fence.
No worries, I'll keep reminding you, G.
When I had my chop made I gave him my Ojibwe name and his response was, ''what the hell is that''. We ended up agreeing on a feather. LOL
I would like to see the feather character from your chop.
A chickadee at the feeder
Seems to be checking out what it's going to eat.
Bronx River Park Today...
Morning jbb...what a lovely park...is that Bronx as in New York or somewhere else?
The Bronx NY, Bronx River Park by my home.
Morning...wow you are so lucky to have that at your back door...
I really don't picture New York having parks etc as you normally just see all buildings and tend to forget about Central Park and other open space etc...
I would imagine you use this park alot... It's stunning...
Good ones, depicting the end of Autumn.
A restored photo, "Fishermen in a Sailboat, Anglesea, New Jersey, c. 1900 and a featureless white sky I turned black, then added the moon and stars and made the sail appear to be backlighted by the moonlight.
These things don't always work out … but I think this one did.
© A. Mac/A.G.
It worked out fine, Mac.
Well done. You should be entering photo contests to make some cash, or are you better off selling prints?
Ideally, selling directly to the public through a "print on demand" (POD) website while simultaneously leasing/licensing images to publishers via agents, is what I do. But in the last ten years or so, companies like Getty Images have made "stock photography" pretty much a waste of time for photographers! A business model whereby the Gettys of the world sell subscriptions of multiple images to buyers who can use the images under certain management terms for designated time periods, that for fees going to Getty, while the photographers get LITERALLY PENNIES for each image!
A late 18th Century American artist named Washington Alston created an engraving entitled "The Rich Book Seller and the Poor Author" in which a plump, obviously well-to-do book seller sat comfortably in a rocking chair in his book shop, while a bony, disheveled author swept the floor!
It's where the stock photography business is today.
Arvo...when I first saw the photo for reason it reminded me of the Owl and the Pussy Cat...🙂
Have you ever been represented by a gallery or an artist's agent?
For years, when stock photography wasn't hijacked by Getty and other such entities, my work was represented by PHOTOTAKE (NYC), UNICORN (MISSOURI, NEBRASKA) & MYLOUPE (Chicago) each now gone. I had a Discovery Channel Video Box Cover and was paid $1000 for FIRST AMERICAN RIGHTS; PHOTOTAKE caught a company using my photo of a maple leaf as its logo and got a cease and desist order imposed plus $1500 for copyright infringement.
Those days are well in the past sorry to say.
These days, most of what I sell is through my FINE ART AMERICA website … Print-on-demand … otherwise, if I didn't have thousands of images out there after years of work, I'd walk away from it.
Below are examples of FINE ART AMERICA options available to the public … publishers use hundreds of my images typically in any give quarter, but instead of the 50-50 split with agents like the old days, it's 15%-85% or less.
Canvas Print
Framed Print
Art Print
Metal Print
Acrylic Print
Wood Print
Greeting Card
iPhone Case
Throw Pillow
Duvet Cover
Shower Curtain
I have seen your Fine Art America website and it well-documents what a wonderful artist you are.
I am flattered; one artist to another is high praise. Thank you.
Being called an artist by you is truly high praise!
Here is another very unique Japanese Maple from Gibbs Garden in Georgia.
Japanese Red Maple or Weeping Red Japanese Lace Leaf Maple, or botanical name is Acer Palmatum.
A group of various Japanese maples surrounded a pond in Gibbs Gardens.
The best of the group!
Thanks, Mac, I love the way all of the maple come together and hide most of the pond.
Morning...just stunning Kavika..you should enlarge it and frame that one..
Would look fantastic on a wall in your house etc...
Thanks shona I just might enlarge it to a wall hanging.
© A. Mac/A.G.
I'm not sure if anyone is aware of this but less than a month ago was the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut. In April of 1983 Hezbollah bombed our embassy in Beirut and followed with the Marine Corps Barracks.
America's entry into the world of terrorism.
Now, 40 years later Hezbollah is still here bigger and more powerful than ever along with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Houties and numerous other terrorist groups around the world.
Yes, something that I'm aware you will be reminded of as long as you live.
The title of the sculpture is ''Cherokee Wind'' it is at the entrance of Gibbs Gardens. The ''Trail of Tears'' runs right by the gardens.
A natural creek that runs through the Gardens, gentle and soothing when you listen to the small falls.
What a great sign. I do miss sitting by a small creek and listening to the soothing sounds of it.
Morning...can always get a small solar powered fountain and put it on your balcony if you have one...at least then you can get the sounds of water trickling etc...
Or he can flush the toilet a lot.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Morning...well I did think of that but thought I should be more diplomatic about it seeing he is a fellow Commonwealthite..😁😁
Of course. We are kind of vastly outnumbered by the Yankees on this site.
Ahhh no drama..we can handle them anytime..😁🦘🦫
That is a great sculpture.
Will close this around 9:00 am.
Thanks to all.
Evening..so is that Monday evening, Tuesday morning or Tuesday evening...if so we are nearly into Wednesday so I guess you mob will never catch up..😁😁
LOL. Well, we're a half a day ahead of them.