Urban Images
A recent very urban image with dynamic colorful abstract wall art, OTGR, reflects the duality that often exists in life, the existence of beauty occurring in tandem with the gritty, here with a bold fiery red unidentified acronym dripping and splattering paint on a dirty sidewalk. I have found myself intrigued in many cities of a wall on which multiple individuals who came upon it added their own marks. Enriched by multiple episodes and layers of painted graffiti, in such instances, you sense the passage of time. In OTGR, however, we have what appears to be one wall artist and just two layers created at one point in time. The consistency of the pattern and colorful bold red and yellow swirling, intersecting, entwined, dripping broad brush strokes, although abstract, have aesthetic similarity and compatibility. I am thrilled to have received for OTGR an Honorable Mention Winner Award in international fine art color photography competition among 6,573 entries from 72 countries.
A crowd-sourced image in the truest sense with layers of anonymous artists adding their personal touch over time of images and text in four languages to this colorful urban graffiti artist/photographer Karen Jordan found in Rome.
Bold red and yellow swirling, intersecting, entwined , dripping brush strokes create a dramatic, colorful abstract graffiti above a sidewalk in Amsterdam, with the acronym OTGR in dripping red paint just below, by DC Photographer Karen Jordan.jpg
Bronze head of man as17th century door knocker and two key holes at St. Ivo, Rome, by Washington, DC, photographic artist Karen Jordan
Over a background of wood grain showing, ominous black shapes appear torn, jagged, creating a dramatic visual rhythm in this abstract color photograph in Adams Morgan by Washington, DC, artist, Karen Jordan, Karen Jordan Kelly.
Striking Venetian diptych with geometric vertical white fence-like shapes running counterpoint to a horizontal band in left panel and in right panel, photo,through-the-lens abstract image dripping blood-red paint? on peelng stucco wall, Venice, IT_fine_art_photographer_Karen_Jordan.jpg
Shades of ochre reflect the ubiquitous colors of Venice in the left panel, and on the right, an abstract image formed by detailing layers of peeling wall posters by Washington, DC, fine art photographer Karen Jordan.
Abstract photo-realistic montage riff on culture with French language text on bright red posters in Montréal, Canada, by fine art photographer Karen Jordan
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A diptych of two Venetian abstract images, one, a poster of the Virgin Mary promoting Radio Maria Italia, a religious radio station in Venice, inspired by the Marian apparitions at Fátima, Portugal , and this image is paired with_the apparation-like face appearing in the canal reflection, by fine art photographer Karen Jordan.
3-D abstract, Photo-realistic montage, details, walls and cornice, bright greens, reds, yellows, photographer Karen Jordan
French town of Meaux reflected in Marne River, canal night scene reflection, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France_fine art photographer Karen Jordan.jpg
A mellow abstract French canal night scene near Meaux, FR, Point of Order has strong sene of design composed of white, blue and yellow shapes that intersect, Marne_River_Seine-et-Marne-Ile-de-France, photographer Karen Jordan.jpg
French night scene, Meaux, France, reflection, town lights and lights on 16th century masonry bridge crossing Marne River, Seine-et-Marne- Île-de-France_Karen Jordan_Washington, DC, fine art photographer.jpg
Meaux, France, French night scene of modern lights from 16th century masonry bridge reflected on Marne River, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France.jpg
A night street scene in Burano, IT, a woman bends over a baby carriage while a woman with handbag in the foreground appears to be watching a couple in the distance.
A dark, misty_Italian_night_scene at the wharf in Burano, Italy, with houses and street lamps barely visible, by fine art photographer Karen Jordan.
An apparition of a woman in the foreground with a nearly deserted Piazza in the background in a night scene, Piazza San Marco, Venice, IT, by photographic artist Karen Jordan
A straight photograph of a vibrant royal blue house with white door and window frames and broom and drapery outside the front door on a steet in Burano, IT, by Washington, DC, artist Karen Jordan
A sharply angled deep purple house with white door and window trim, a window box with red flowers on a street corner in Burano, IT, by photographer Karen Jordan.
La_Casa_Vestita, the Dressed House, in Dorsoduro,, a district or sestieri in central Venice, was the site of a conceptual artist’sc installation invoking fashion and the use of it to modify appearance, at the Venice Biennale by artist Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, whose installation was also called the Dressed House, photographed late in the day by fine art photograper Karen Jordan, who was documenting life in the 16th century town square where the installation occurrred.
Three boats in the sestieri Dorsoduro, in central Venice, Italy, by photographer Karen Jordan.
A weathered wooden door, boarded up on the inside, and a weathered window with a Post Office, Tibitha, sign bear testament to the nature of time affecting the closed Post Office in Tibitha, VA, in this photograph by Washington, DC, visual artist Karen Jordan.
A very urban, summer portrait of a charmingly attired multi-generational family unit, a presumed grandmother, a mother along with her three daughters all wearing hats, stop to shop at a kiosk while one child speaks to their dog, in Venice_IT, photographed by Washington, DC, photographer Karen Jordan.jpg
In front of a men’s clothing store in Venice, cross-dressing. in drag, standing mannequins bear their bare legs under short dress coats while wearing neon pink or blue high heels, with a live passerby’s legs in the background, in Stand by Me, photographed by Washington, DC, fine art photographer Karen Jordan.
A documentary or environmental portrait of a group of school girls seated on steps in Venice, Italy, by fine art photographer Karen Jordan.jpg