expressionism

Harold Davis

"Shadow on a Hill"

Expressionism is the idea of the inner world of emotion rather than the reality. Its mainly based around the distortion of reality in order to express the artist's inner feelings / ideas.

Harold Davis is an Expressionist artist who was born in 1953, and mainly started their photography work in around 2004 - 2008. The art he creates represents his own inner thoughts. This one, for example, is one that the viewer has to truly look at and find the hints of what is in the photo in order to be able to tell what it is. Originally it could be thought as simply just the side of a cliff (how I thought) but then once looking around the darkened shadowed areas it was clear to be shadows on a hill.

My Interpretation

To make a similar photo to the one Davis made, I simply took a photo of a tree trunk that had the leaves shadowing on it, and then edited it by putting a filter over it to make it black and white, like his image, and to hopefully make it seem different than it is.