Art | This is Now

Life is art

18th June 2009 by Melina

Life can be all clear and happy like in a fairytale, but it can also be skew, without focus and with blurry colours that smudge together into one big mess. But just like this picture it’s still amazing.

Somehow there’s always beauty in life just like there is beauty in art and poetry, it is just that sometimes it takes more time and thought to find the meaning and beauty behind it.

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Subject and Object as One

11th November 2008 by tikichris

Here’s another shot by yours truly that made the cut and has been included in the This is Now Flickr pool. The photo, of a young woman seemingly immersed in Monet’s Water Lilies (also known as Nympheas) was taken at l’Orangerie in Paris during my summer 2008 visit.

What caught my eye when I took the shot was the contrast between the woman in the foreground and the painting in the background. I like how she forms a warm and distinct vertical to the painting’s cool broad horizontal field. Still it’s pretty neat how, despite the difference, she appears to have melded with the painting as if to suggest a singular image. That line of gold trim at the bottom of the painting does a lot for this image as well, neatly dividing the elements while unifying them. Oh and did you notice the way the woman’s left leg is slightly askew? I think that’s what really makes this picture a winner.

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Pink Graffiti

8th November 2008 by Kai Chan Vong

Shades of pink can be stunning in photos. Recently, my company had a pink friday in aid of breast cancer awareness. Talking about the office, ‘This is Now’ shouldn’t just be about what you see on the weekend or after work… Why not share some of those work moments with everyone… sometimes the office and its environment can be quite an awesome capture.

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Night drawing in the sky

21st September 2008 by Kai Chan Vong

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.

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