Kandinsky

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[Just A Box Of Rain]

1. I love Kandinsky's work

I remember when I was at UC Berkeley the university art museum hosted a major exhibition of his work that included both Blue Horse and The Red Horses in addition to his more abstract works.

I went to see the exhibition almost every day while it was there. Such power in these paintings.





About the same time I talked myself into a small Graduate Honors Symposium for Art History majors (I was Poly Sci) with the famous art historian Peter Selz that focused on German Expressionism.

Good stuff.

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4. Never seen the horses. I used to have Kandinsky screensaver. Love his use

of colour. I'm definitely a colour person and his choices are always some of the best. Wish I could see a show of his some day. I'm not familiar with most of his work.

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10. You will have to excuse me...as I tried to continue gardening in the heat of a scorching

day here in SoCal and think I got mild heatstroke.

In any case, I managed to conflate Wassily Kandinsky with his fellow Blaue Reiter artist Franz Marc.

Both of the horse paintings are by Franz Marc (and a glorious and large) and NOT by Kandinsky.



I'm more than a little embarrassed at the moment.

I've been so upset by recent events that I decided to follow Voltaire's advice about cultivating one's own garden, but took it too far today.

Now sitting down with a large pitcher of ice water.

Forgive my moment of stupidity.

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12. No problem. Stay cool.

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13. curious

dont recognize the name, but did he properly ground the movement as a reaction to ww1, and the disfigured soldiers everywhere?

cuz i had a lecture at the art institute where a lecturer failed to do that, and when i pointed that out, they claimed to have never thought about it.
almost as bad as the curator of 17th century french porcelain who didnt know the difference between porcelain and paste, nor why it mattered.

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15. Yes, absolutely.

Different stains of German Expressionism had their own aesthetics, with Die Brücke artist like Kirshner, Nolde, and Schmidt-Rottluff having a harder and more brutal style than those of the Blaue Rider (like Marc. Jawlensky, and Kandinsky), but all these artists were impacted by the horrors of WWI and Prof. Selz spent considerable time focusing on the evolution of their work on a year-by-year basis.

The war and the artists reaction to it formed a significant part of the seminar.

I'm astounded--as you are--that someone could lecture on the period and not mention it.

[leftieNanner]

2. Kandinsky and Klee

Two of my favorite artists.

Plus the entire Impressionist gallery in Paris.

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5. Musee d'Orsay. I've been there twice.

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6. I can skip the Louvre

And just hang out in Musee d'Orsay. Gorgeous building too.

Ah. Let's go to Paris.

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8. So much to see in Paris. Musee Rodin was beautiful too. So too the art nouveau metro stops.

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9. My daughter did a college semester in Paris

Of course I had to drop her off!

We rented a tiny apartment in the 7th, just down the street from Rodin museum. We walked everywhere.

We were there when the Charlie Hebdo attack happened. It was difficult to leave her there.

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11. Awe. I'm so sorry you were there when that happened. We walked by Notre Dame

on l'isle de la cite and noticed people going in at night. We took a quick look see and someone was singing Ava Maria on a balcony inside. The place was packed. That was pure luck.

[IcyPeas]

3. so colorful

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7. Every hue he chooses is spot on to the others in the painting. I'm not artistic but the time

I built a website I spent hours picking the hues so they would work perfectly with each other.

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14. i stole a big idea from kandinsky

he used to paint on huge canvases, the cut them up.
i used whole rolls of huge paper then did the same.

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16. I once stole a big idea from Yves Klein

My two best friends in college rented a beautiful space overlooking Telegraph Ave in Berkeley. It was a second-story apartment, with a huge living room that felt like a gallery space. They only had it for their last summer (before they headed off to work as photojournalists in Beirut in 1981.

Their walls were bare, so I got the idea to get a big roll of heavy white butcher paper and blue paint (I successfully tried to match Yves Klein Blue) and then we had a big party where all the guests got naked, got covered in blue paint, and then made impressions with their bodies on sheets of butcher paper, so it looked something like this (one of Klein's originals):



Really looked great once the installation was finished and was quite the gathering place that summer.

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17. very cool.

the idea didnt rly work, btw. i did it because ppl kept telling me they loved my work, they just didnt have room for my huge paintings. so i did a 4' x 30' painting and tried to sell it by the square foot. got no takers, cut it up myself, still no takers.
you can check it out here- https://www.facebook.com/Mo-Clay-120776091304700

i'm a great salesman of everything but myself.

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18. Is that your tilework? It is outstanding!

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19. yup.

too old for that shit now, tho.

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20. Really good work.

Do you know Sabado (Simon) Rodia's Watts Towers?

I grew up with parents who saved the Towers from being destroyed (and actually owned them for a time as they acted to preserve them) and the Towers were like a second home.

I think Rodia would have loved your tile work. I do.

Very fine.