Father Pitt

Tag: Abstract Expressionism

  • Wood Street Building (300 Sixth Avenue Building)

    Wood Street Building

    A Daniel Burnham design built for the McCreery & Company department store, this building opened in 1904. It originally had a classical base with a pair of arched entrances on Wood Street, but beginning in 1939 it had various alterations, so that nothing remains of the original Burnham design below the fourth floor. This was one of Burnham’s more minimalistic designs; in it we see how thin the wall can be between classicism and modernism.

    Below, an abstract composition with elements of this building reflected in Two PNC Plaza across the street.

    Reflections

  • Clouds

    Reflected in the glass of Tower Two-Sixty.

  • U. S. Steel Tower

    Part of the U. S. Steel Tower

  • Fifth Avenue Place Reflected in PPG Place

    Reflection of Fifth Avenue Place

  • More Reflections of St. Paul’s

    Reflections of the towers of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the windows of the Software Engineering Institute.

  • Fifth Avenue Place Reflected in Four Gateway Center

  • Skyline Abstraction

    Pittsburgh skyline

  • Strawberry Way

    Strawberry Way

  • Abstract Patterns at PPG Place

    Reflections in PPG Place

  • Snow on a Fence

    A wooden fence with snow accumulating on it, rendered as a nineteenth-century engraving. Several steps went into this rendition—compensating for lens distortion, adjusting perspective, converting the picture to black-and-white, enhancing details two different ways, and finally the Colored Engraving filter by Lyle Kroll and David Tschumperlé, which is one of (at last count) 574 different filters and effects available in the G’MIC image-processing framework.