Abstract work has been stereotypically hated by people who are not open minded with art. Mirek Jan Bialy, a contemporary writer and painter, on Art Slant writes, “Abstract paintings tend to elicit responses in viewers that fall toward one extreme side of the spectrum or the other.
Occasionally, there's that one piece of art that just grabs you. Once you've seen it, you can't forget it. It's a static image that suddenly becomes dynamic. A picture is alive in your mind. Graffiti artist MTO brings those living images to the streets.
Tangled in a web of thick vines and bright leaves, a face stares back at me. I cannot quite tell who it is, but I feel the face is playful. It is pouting its lips as if asking for a kiss and beneath it, there is another one flipped upside down.
For a photographer, there are projects that they are hyper focused on in order to understand their own style of art. For some, it is composition or subjects. For others, it is lighting or settings. Photographers often brand themselves in the elements they use to create a photo. For young African photographer, Noma Osula, his attention to color theory in his art is what makes his pieces stand out among other.
When photographer Petra Collins’ Instagram account was suspended in 2017, it was for a fairly conventional image—a bikini line. In fact, as Collins stated in Huffington Post, over 5,000,000 images on instagram were tagged with the #bikini at the time of her suspension. What makes her photographs controversial is the way that Collins photographed her bikini line.