Tag Archives: observations

  • Francis Picabia DADA

    DADA

    “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?”

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  • Robert Frank, London

    Robert Frank

    Every artist, of whatever skill or level, can point to the very specific moments when they saw work that…

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  • Alexander Calder sculpture

    Alexander Calder

    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 …

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  • The City by Michael Heizer

    The City by Michael Heizer

    The City, by Michael Heizer, has been getting a lot of attention lately.

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  • Hilm af Klint "The Dove II"

    Hilma af Klint

    Like a lot of people in the artworld, I first became aware of the painter Wilma Af Klint in the last few years.

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  • Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic Today

    Ed Ruscha

    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 …

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  • Stylish Ruins by Paul Klee

    Paul Klee

    The artwork of Paul Klee is so imaginative and playful, I think of him as just floating along on a cloud of pure inspiration!

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  • Painting by Wassily Kandinsky

    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.

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  • Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944) Composition with Blue and Yellow 1932

    Piet Mondrian

    Mondrian’s work has been a big influence on me, and my approach to art. When I first encountered his paintings, I was struck by how spare, flat, and organized they were.

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