About this artwork
This photograph, Bomen, captured by Eustave Young, is printed on a page in a book. The whole image is blue, with very light trees sitting on dark ground. What a strange choice. The process becomes the story here. The ink reminds me of cyanotypes, or maybe blueprints - the way the artist has allowed the material properties of the printmaking process to influence the final image. It's like the trees are emerging from a dream, the dark, inky ground solidifying into reality. I find myself thinking about Gerhard Richter’s blurry photos and how he tried to find a universal language that did not have any culture associated with it. This is so different. It shows us something we all know. Trees. And it looks like nothing else. Art isn't just about what you see; it's about how you see. This work invites us to see the world with new eyes and find beauty in the unexpected.
Artwork details
- Medium
- print, photography, gelatin-silver-print
- Dimensions
- height 139 mm, width 75 mm
- Copyright
- Rijks Museum: Open Domain
Tags
tree
aged paper
still-life-photography
homemade paper
paper non-digital material
paperlike
landscape
photography
personal sketchbook
journal
fading type
gelatin-silver-print
thick font
handwritten font
modernism
historical font
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About this artwork
This photograph, Bomen, captured by Eustave Young, is printed on a page in a book. The whole image is blue, with very light trees sitting on dark ground. What a strange choice. The process becomes the story here. The ink reminds me of cyanotypes, or maybe blueprints - the way the artist has allowed the material properties of the printmaking process to influence the final image. It's like the trees are emerging from a dream, the dark, inky ground solidifying into reality. I find myself thinking about Gerhard Richter’s blurry photos and how he tried to find a universal language that did not have any culture associated with it. This is so different. It shows us something we all know. Trees. And it looks like nothing else. Art isn't just about what you see; it's about how you see. This work invites us to see the world with new eyes and find beauty in the unexpected.
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