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Thread: So how do I describe this subject genre?

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    So how do I describe this subject genre?

    I've become intrigued by an old equestrian statue, not so much the entire statue (although it is pretty dang slick) but the details, which I find incredibly beautiful all on their own.
    But the elements of the horse and rider will still look like the elements of an equestrian statue, so it wouldn't be an abstract.
    What do I call it?
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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    Still life.

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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    Pictures of an old equestrian statue perhaps?
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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    I would call lazy photographer.



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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    I can't tell if this is a riddle or one of your worst threads ever, john


    Lol


    Close-up
    Most abstracts are simply close-ups of identifiable objects so

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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    Sure that's not your own horse you forgot to feed, that mummified in the summer heat? Gosh, back in the old Clovis days they'd hang you for even using a term
    like "equestrian". No authentic cowboy could even pronounce something like that!

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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    Well if you take a picture of the south end of the horse facing north I guess you could put it in the nude section.

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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    Sculptural details, sculptural elements, deconstructed sculpture, elements of a sculpture. This way you give the work of art credit as whole, but also note that you are showing only parts of it.

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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    Its
    close-up
    Then abstraction
    Then
    Excerpt
    Then extract
    Then detail as perhaps 5th best option

    But how many of those are genres
    Detail is not a genre


    I thought Ansel liked the term excerpt but it seems after a quick search he may have used extract

    But the correct answer is still close-up
    Whatdoiwin

    I say
    close-up of sculptural detail

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    Re: So how do I describe this subject genre?

    This is a question I'd rather not be saddled with. ;-)

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