Cézanne, Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, c. 1876 Last year’s October 8 issue of the London Review of Books published a long (just under 9,000 words) article by the art historian T.J. Clark, who has taught at British universities as well as at the University of California, L.A. I am reproducing one of […]
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Cézanne, Pissaro and T.J. Clark
Posted in Achievement, Color, Composition, Landscape, Seeing, Semiotics, Technique and Demo, tagged Camille Pissaro, Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, London Review of Books, Maison et arbre, modernism, Paul Cézanne, T.J. Clark on March 28, 2021| 2 Comments »
Found Objects
Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Collage, Color, Composition, Imagination, inspiration, Seeing, Technique and Demo, tagged charcoal, collage. Renaissance, found objects, Georges Braques, Pablo Picasso, sandpaper, Synthetic Cubism, Terry Fohrman on September 28, 2016| 2 Comments »
At a distance you see an engrossing painting in muted complimentary colors, blues and orange-browns. If you move close to this canvas you’ll see that things are glued onto it. At (2) there’s a distressed black rectangle with a yellow band at the bottom that has a zig-zag line on it. At (3) the artist […]
Did Piet Mondrian Paint Mondrians?
Posted in abstraction, Composition, Cubism, Illustration, Imagination, inspiration, literalness, Technique and Demo, Uncategorized, tagged abstraction, Art Institute of Chicago, Braque, Cezanne, commandment, cubism, D.H.Kahnweiler, Doubt, Medieval, MoMA, Mondrian, mythology, Picasso, Renaissance, trees on July 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Oh, trees! If you’re a Mondrian-lover you stand in front of one of his paintings, like the one above, and exclaim, “I just love the way he painted trees!” Right? You have a friend who doesn’t understand Mondrian, so you volunteer to give her a tour of the moderns at the Art Institute of Chicago […]
Kandinsky in Milwaukee
Posted in abstraction, Imagination, inspiration, literalness, Quotes, Seeing, tagged Braque, Calatrava, Cezanne, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, geistig, James Joyce, Kafka, Kandinski, Kokoschka, M.T.H. Sadler, Mahler, Milwaukee, Picasso, Ravel, Rilke, spiritual, Strauss, Stravinski, Virginia Woolfe on August 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »
This extensive exhibit of Kandinsky’s work is well worth the hour-and-a-half drive to Milwaukee’s Calatrava by the Lake. Word has gotten out that the show closes Sept 1st and if you’ll go in the next three days, you’ll have to share the gallery with a large, rather elegant crowd. I was there two days ago […]
The Chicago Picasso
Posted in Architecture, Master drawings, Technique and Demo, tagged Chicago, Daley Center, Picasso, process, Richard Bennett, work on February 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Picasso didn’t like to travel. When he was in his twenties he would go back to his native Spain every now and then, but always with his painting materials. Later, when he was absurdly rich and able to go anywhere in the world, he preferred to stay close to his studio. He worked. He worked […]
The Moment of Cubism
Posted in Cubism, tagged Braques, cubism, desire, music, Picasso on September 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
“The moment at which a piece of music begins provides a clue to the nature of all art. The incongruity of that moment, compared to the uncounted, unperceived silence which preceded it, is the secret of art. What is the meaning of that incongruity and the shock which accompanies it? It is to be found […]
Matisse in Chicago
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
We’ve all lived with modern art all our lives. Our parents lived with modern and, if they were lucky, our grandparents. It’s easy for us to forget what a momentous achievement that was. And it was the achievement of just a handful of artists: Cezanne, Manet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Klee and some early […]
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