Alain Briot, Author at Luminous Landscape https://luminous-landscape.com The Photographer's Knowledge Resource Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:41:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Referent Part 3 – What is Art? https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-3-what-is-art/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-3-what-is-art/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:45:40 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=93349 Introduction At the end of the previous essay, I said that I needed to define what art is to continue exploring how the Referent applies...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-3-what-is-art/feed/ 0 The Referent Part 2 – Generalities https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-2-generalities/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-2-generalities/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:53:23 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=93081 Introduction My previous essay laid the foundation for this new series focused on the concept of the Referent.  This second essay focuses on what are...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-2-generalities/feed/ 0 The Referent Part 1 – Introduction https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-1-introduction/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-1-introduction/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:29:27 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=92415 Introduction This is the first essay in a new series about the Referent.  This new series builds on The Language of Art, my previous series...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-referent-part-1-introduction/feed/ 0 The Language of Art Part 11: Levels of Abstraction in Art https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-11-levels-of-abstraction-in-art/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-11-levels-of-abstraction-in-art/#respond Sat, 11 May 2024 09:41:37 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=90326 Introduction This is the third essay on the subject of abstraction in art.  The first focused on abstraction in photography, the second on abstraction in...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-11-levels-of-abstraction-in-art/feed/ 0 The Language of Art – Part 9 – Levels Of Abstraction In Photography https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-9-levels-of-abstraction-in-photography/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-9-levels-of-abstraction-in-photography/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:57:27 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=88284 Introduction My previous essay focused on defining the concept of abstraction in art and photography.  At the end of that essay, I mentioned that abstraction...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-9-levels-of-abstraction-in-photography/feed/ 0 The Language of Art Part 8 – Abstraction https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-8-abstraction/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-8-abstraction/#respond Sat, 16 Dec 2023 22:14:50 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=86034 What Is Abstraction? Traditionally, abstraction is defined as a representation that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a reality, a representation for...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-8-abstraction/feed/ 0 The Language of Art Part 7: Dialects and Manipulations https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-7-dialects-and-manipulations/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-7-dialects-and-manipulations/#respond Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:14:02 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=85441 Introduction In my previous essay, we saw how main languages branch out into dialects.  We also saw that dialects are languages used by groups of...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-7-dialects-and-manipulations/feed/ 0 The Language of Art Part 6 – Branching Out https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-6-branching-out/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-6-branching-out/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:23:39 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=84358 Modernism and Abstraction: New Branches In The Language Of Art. Dialects If we metaphorically compare major languages to tree trunks and secondary languages to tree...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-6-branching-out/feed/ 0 The Language of Art Part 5 – Mythology https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-5-mythology/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-5-mythology/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:25:31 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=83110 Introduction In the first essay in this series, I presented several situations in which a lack of knowledge of the artist’s referent led to an...

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]]> https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-5-mythology/feed/ 0 The Language Of Art Part 4 – The Referent https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-4-the-referent/ https://luminous-landscape.com/the-language-of-art-part-4-the-referent/#respond Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:16:49 +0000 https://photopxl.com/?p=82096 We need words to make things real. When something is given a specific name, it becomes tangible, identifiable, and unique Alain Briot Introduction In my...

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