Chuck Close constantly presents a question for me. I love his work, particularly that of later years, but I really don’t know why. The aesthetic reasons are mysterious to me, which points to the mystery that is aesthetics. Even Mondrian who created a philosophy to go with his paintings, whose subject is aesthetics, admitted to […]
Using some beautifully creative designs, these hand crafted objects reach a high point of emotional desirability. In the first place, the wool material has a desirable quality and the hooked application technique works like a mosaic giving vigour and vitality to the attractive designs. Created by unknown makers and designers, these rugs give a strong […]
The trouble with becoming rich and setting up a massive workshop for the contemporary artist is that the artist can now indulge every whim, half-baked idea that crosses his mind. Would Damien Hirst create all those dot paintings if he had to do the manual labour himself? If he was doing all the work, requiring […]
Apart from its obvious attractive qualities, what I find most striking about this painting is the clarity of its art historical reference connecting Pointillism and Post-Impressionism with abstraction, op-art, and just about everything else that came after. At a time when all the modernist art movements were just beginning, the artist is in his early […]
It is great to see a work like this that shows the artist in the aesthetic process, and in Mondrian’s case, producing a work whose subject actually is a concentrated reduction to aesthetics only. The work is labelled “unfinished”, not because the artist suddenly died or was separated from the work. Mondrian had time to […]
Although of an age that has him exactly of the time of the moderns, Adolf Dietrich is steadfastly of a more traditional style. What he lacks in modern art invention he more than makes up with a feeling of genuine emotion. Maybe the most modern part of his work, that has him way ahead of […]
Madeleine Winch is an Australian artist whose work, in my opinion, has steadily improved until now she doing her best work. I’m not sure if she earns enough from her art to make a good living, but a lot of people enjoy her work and love to have it on their walls. If you have […]
Looking at this set of screenprints, especially as presented in this array, highlights the one thing Andy Warhol consistently has going for him, his talent with color and design. I’m not sure the chosen photo always works as meaning, or if the repetition of the image always works as meaning, but I do know what […]
Here are some works, mainly prints, that vividly illustrate just how much can be done with so little. The Kees van Dongen lithograph is one in a series of 58 illustrations for Anatole France’s “La Révolte des Anges”. The Nude standing in an interior by Edvard Munch, on the left above, is strikingly different […]
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Joan Miró (1893-1983) – Untitled 1947
Obviously relaxed and confident at a height of fame and fortune in his career, Miró allowed his execution of this painting to be filmed and the work was completed in one day. It was then given to the filmmaker, an American acquaintance; so it was not destined for an important gallery show. This happened at […]