I'm going to post a piece from one of the artists that shows with us as my number ten, but I have to pick one from our work computer and send it via attachment and so on. Soon, soon.
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Portal; I also saw the documentary, and it was intriguing also. I was just so impressed with the exhibit because the works had been gathered from so many places, so many museums and even private collections. Whoever put it together was inspired.
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LW, on yes, by all means, a wonderful work, lucious yet delicate. There was a period when Dekooning and Franz Kline painted these strong stroked pictures, except that DK used color while Kline rarely did so. One Kline that did contain color was "Untitled, 1957. Oil on wood, 46X53.5 cm. I'm looking at a repro in my book, Art of the Twentieth Century. Taschen. Regrettably, I cannot reproduce it here for you.
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This is SO difficult. I CAN select 10 paintings I consider blessings, but it's hard to select my ten favorites. I love the entire of oeuvre of Paul Klee, of course. His work is so clever and his colors so subtle. I managed to find one for its colors in artnet. Let's see if you can get it from their link:
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartdetail.asp?aid=9558&wid=28731&page=&max_tn_page=
Good! it worked.
cmon JL quit stalling.
Get me a rope boy.
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O.K., Farmerman, here is another one, one of Motherwell's elegy series. This is not my favorite but it certainly will do. This series of homages to the Spanish Republic grew to be more than its message; it became an on-going exercise in aesthetic play (reminding me of Klee, Miro and Picasso). Motherwell obviously took great joy in his life-long generation of surprising forms (yes, surprising even his many repetitive series), both in his paintings and collages.
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartdetail.asp?aid=12167&wid=75177&pages=17&group=&max_tn_page=
Beckman
I have looked at the Beckman painting ten times now sinceyou posted it. It confuses me. Is the viewer looking through glass?
zincwhite, No, that's only the reflection from the glass over the painting when I took the picture. c.i.
JL i love Klee as well - he uses colour and shape so beautifully
The yellow reaches out and grabs you, pulling you into the picture plane, viewing "Door to the River" in person (at the Whitney Museum, on permanent collection). Then the subtle deep blue/greens suddenly instill and tranquility that belies the strong structural statement of the image. This tension is superbly handled as well in "A Night in Havana" which I will try and find.
Night in Havana
Eliminating the visual -- sssstttttreeetttcccchhhhh! The image for the painting is in the link above.
Whoops -- I stretched the screen again so will drop the image tomorrow!
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OH-MY-GOD! Now THAT'S aesthetic. What has happened to art that we see less of this every year? Does anybody sense the spirit of Van Gogh in this pallete?
Emotional response to the color juxtaposition and the energy of the brushstrokes evokes Van Gogh for me.
Ci says "zincwhite, No, that's only the reflection from the glass over the painting when I took the picture. c.i."
Oh, I see said the blind man, duh.
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I'm having trouble finding very good examples of the work of my favorite painters. Here's a Picasso portrait that reflects an amazing thing about his "distortions." I can look at the face of this woman and after a while totally forget how distorted it is; it comes to appear "orthodox." It reminds me of the man who justfied his attraction for an exceptionally ugly woman with "Well, you simply like Picasso or you dont."
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/picasso/p-picasso22.htm.
Sorry. Artcyclopedia didn't come through on this, SO IT DOESN'T COUNT AS ONE OF MY TEN CHOICES.
Here is the Bosch painting for my 1st choice.http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/delightc.small.jpg
