Compared to the artists in the previous two posts, Joan Miró and Baechler, whose subject comes from a more ad-lib, improvisational approach, Albert Pfister is in the classical traditional mold with direct reference to landscape and still life subjects. However, his results with paint on canvas are far from ordinary. The arbitrary nature of the […]
I have always enjoyed the image making of Donald Baechler. While not really understanding any other level of reference or subject that he may be alluding to, the visual aesthetics have always appealed to me. Some of the elements can look a bit like cliche contemporary additions but are visually satisfying. The rhyme or reason […]
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Apart from its obvious attractive qualities, what I find most striking about this painting is the clarity of its art historical reference connecting Pointillism and Post-Impressionism with abstraction, op-art, and just about everything else that came after.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 to what I think is her best work. If you have one of her works, at much less cost than the cheapest Warhol, you can continue to enjoy her work in the simplest, purest sense. If you have a Warhol, your […]
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 […]