GoMA’s Dome
The interior features of the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow are magnificent.
The elliptical well, looking up to the glass dome above the central hallway provides an excellent subject for a photographic study of concentric ellipses.
The ornate plasterwork ceilings look stunning in pure white combined with lighting to emphasise the relief.
Broad shapes, complex geometries, limited colours, graduated tones, textures, repeating patterns were all an excuse for a bit of a photographic indulgence.
Looking upwards to the dome.
Looking down from the first gallery. It’s reminiscent of one of these weather devices where someone pops out of one door for rain and the other for sunshine.
Some of theses ceilings were a “whiter shade of pale” than the others.
Four doors, four seasons?
In the following photo the juxtaposition of the emergency exit sign with the rest of this composition amused me. Could it imply that the quickest way out is down the well?
In case that impression detracts from appreciation of the interaction of the elliptical shapes and especially the wonderfully distorted rim on the gallery handrail, I did think about cropping it off. Try scrolling down until the sign just disappears off the top of your screen and see how it impacts the image. It makes it a very different picture and provides an immense sense of depth and space. It does to me anyway.
My other recent articles about this wonderful Glasgow building:
These photographs were taken in November 2011 using a Fujifilm S5 DSLR. Shot in RAW format and processed in Photoshop CS2 ACR2.4
All the photographs were taken by Scottish photographer Norman Young and are copyright ©. Please respect copyright.
