Small vessel on a watery floating sphere

[Martin C]

The first art poster I bought was Kandinsky's Homage to Fernand Leger that I saw at the George Pompidou Centre in Paris. I guess I was 21 at the time and the love affair with colour and abstraction began around that time. Some time later I came across Klee's 1914 Tunisian paintings (St Germain etc) and never looked back. I have a lot of trouble de-Klee-ifying my own work. To think that Klee and Kandinsky shared a house for 6 years -- and some of their most productive years too.

Anyway, on the matter of all-over painting, I'm totally into this. Its a bit of a waste of canvas to lead the eye to a focal point, no? ;-)

 

[john]

It's part of the reason I put the two yellow bumblebees/ balloons in the painting. I wanted a trio of focal points instead of just on the small boat. I was thinking it might form a triangle of Interest.

 

[Triduana]

I love this! I especially like the way you applied the paint, there are some really interesting textures and shapes. I really like the orange dots too!

 

[OleKobe]

I like your sea painting with the brilliant colors. Very similar to illustrations I've seen in reading textbooks for middle school.

 

[Artyczar]

Interesting observation about Kandinsky being mathematical. Yeah his work is abstract but seems engineered. Perhaps because of how he saw his painting related to music gave it a certain order and composition like a musical score.

And yes Klee seems more playful and less serious. A little more fun. I think I like Klee a little more also. I think I prefer just a little more representational in paintings which Klee seems to have. Fully abstract paintings I find less satisfying.

Glad you brought up the Blue Rider Group. I had heard of them but didn't know much. Made me look into them further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Blaue_Reiter

In that group was this woman painter I had not heard of Marianne von Werefkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_von_Werefkin

I like her paintings. They seem like magic realism which a genre that I find fascinating. And August Macke.....I really like the look of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Macke

Thanks John. I actually forgot about von Werefkin.

I always loved the magic of the group and their innovative ideas to take over their own art scene. They created a movement without relying on the gallery system. As a younger artist I tried to get others to do similar things with me and organize art shows in our homes and make little parties of it. I sold work to friends that way in the beginning.

I do like fully abstract paintings, but you know, it always depends. There's a lot of bad abstract art out there. I'm rather picky about it. I can always find aspects of most art that I can like and see potential in pretty much everything, but it's not all that often when my socks are knocked off. But my all-time favorite artists (a few of them) are strictly abstract artists and they move me completely. I've followed their careers through time, dead or alive.

I like Klee's more abstract, less representational works. Don't like his famous face one as much as his others, but a lot of his playful abstracts can be seen as somewhat representational. You're right. In recent years I didn't even realize how much his influence was having on my own work, like when I was putting little feet on some of my more abstract compositions. I looked back and said, WOW, that's so Klee. How did that happen?? Early influence I guess. It was subconscious though.

And, there I go babbling again.

 

[Artyczar]

The first art poster I bought was Kandinsky's Homage to Fernand Leger that I saw at the George Pompidou Centre in Paris. I guess I was 21 at the time and the love affair with colour and abstraction began around that time. Some time later I came across Klee's 1914 Tunisian paintings (St Germain etc) and never looked back. I have a lot of trouble de-Klee-ifying my own work. To think that Klee and Kandinsky shared a house for 6 years -- and some of their most productive years too.

Anyway, on the matter of all-over painting, I'm totally into this. Its a bit of a waste of canvas to lead the eye to a focal point, no? ;-)

OMG! Me too! The very first poster, and I framed it. I saw a museum show at the Norton Simon in Pasadena of Kandinsky and Fernand Leger (I wonder if it was a traveling show???) and it was in the 1980s. I was 16 or so. I knew I wanted to paint seriously after that. And that led me to Paul Klee.

I will try to find the Kandinsky painting I had the poster of.

 

[Artyczar]

 

[Martin C]

That's so funny. Mine was actually this one ("Leger, an homage to Fernand Leger", 1930). Not sure where it is now, a million house moves later...