When I first encountered Kandinsky, it was the German Expressionist style he worked in when he was part of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter. I was pretty put off by it (maybe too many farm scenes?)! But, as I discovered his later work of pure abstraction, I was profoundly affected. He had such a powerful imagination, and an ability to make exciting images out of conglomerations of simple shapes. He is now one of my very favorite artists.
“Look, life is ridiculous. Nothing means anything, really, when you get right down to it. Besides, we’re all going to die. We all know all that. But, can’t we have a little fun along the way?”
Ed Ruscha’s paintings had a huge effect on me when I first saw them when I was in high school. They opened me up and made me realize art could be nearly anything. It could be funny. It could be sarcastic. It could be about ordinary daily life. It didn’t have to be all that …
Wassily Kandinsky
When I first encountered Kandinsky, it was the German Expressionist style he worked in when he was part of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter. I was pretty put off by it (maybe too many farm scenes?)! But, as I discovered his later work of pure abstraction, I was profoundly affected. He had such a powerful imagination, and an ability to make exciting images out of conglomerations of simple shapes. He is now one of my very favorite artists.
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