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.
I first got interested in photography in middle school, in the 1970s. Some friends showed me there was a small darkroom at the school, and they showed me how to develop film, and how to make enlargements.
Seeing a piece by Calder is always a fresh and delightful experience. His work is not really “around that much.” Unlike the work of some of the recent, super-popular artists like Warhol, or Koons, or Basquiat, whose work seems to show up every time you turn a page, or click a link, you sometimes go …
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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