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From the series 'Stillness and Occurrence'
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? David Williams

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From the series 'Stillness and Occurrence' 2000
  • Scottish Art
The sea front at Portobello, a sight familiar to every resident of Edinburgh, takes on the appearance of a mirage here. The blurring of form and delicate merging of colour turn the image into look like an abstract painting. Its unreal qualities put the viewer in a contemplative mood. The formal values of the Romantic artists have been put to good use by the photographer to stress the insignificance of man in the vastness of nature.

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Abstract art

Art in which there is no attempt to represent anything existing in the world, particularly used of the 20th century onwards. `Abstraction? refers to the process of making images that may in part derive from the visible world but which are reduced to basic formal elements.

Romanticism

A movement in art, literature and music in the 18th and 19th centuries that rejected neoclassical restraint in favour of emotion and individual expression.

Abstract art, Romanticism

Details

  • Acc. No. PGP 117.47
  • Medium Colour photograph
  • Size 54.00 x 77.30 cm
  • Credit Presented by the photographer 2001

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