I have been living back home for a little more than 6 months now – how time flies. Needless to say, it’s been hard fitting my life from a whole apartment into one room. My personality has been boxed and stored. I miss having the freedom of the easel constantly sitting the living room, waiting to be used. Well, the desire is far too big to constrain now. I’m going to have to bust it out this weekend – where I have no clue, maybe the stairwell.
I wanted to remember my 2 favourite artists.
Pablo Picasso
I love so much of Picasso’s work – his breadth of work always amazes me and I especially love the way he depicts the women in his life and his openness towards his current feelings towards them. He was notoriously quirky with conspiracy theories but which great artist isn’t marginally loony? My favourite painting from him heralds from the “cubism” era – The Guitar Player. I love the analytical nature of the art which blends deconstruction with art. I also appreciate the monochromatic appeal – the inflexibility of using only one colour – forcing creativity to present itself in other ways.
Wassily Kandinsky
I think it’s only logical for me to enjoy Kandinsky’s work once he moved into the Bauhaus era – given my design passion for good grid design – I love the simple notion of shapes being completely distorted and reshaped into art. There is so much power and emotion coming from simple lines and shapes – it’s amazing.
Lord, I need to put some time aside for art. Even though I’m positively crap at it and the only piece I’ve ever truly loved was “The Blue Piece” that is now sitting in the store-room. I was planning to give it to Sim and Sam but Dad has expressed an interest in hanging it in the TV room. Usually, I sulk throughout painting, berate myself at the end of it and almost have a complete nervous breakdown. A day later, I may or may not like it. But “The Blue Piece” (which I hated and thought was completely stupid once I was done) completely grew on me and as a result, didn’t suffer the fate of getting painted over.
Your Blue Piece is marvelous. And this blog is on point. I have to remember that I have a easel in my living room just waiting to be used and I’m inspired to use it.
So, thanks. 🙂
Thank you! It’s currently mounted just at the door entrance – so glad it belongs somewhere. I always find that I hate all my work and it takes me a couple of days to get round to it.
Ugh! I know! There’s only been one painting that I actually loved from the beginning to end and missed when it was sold. Luckily I moved in with my friend who bought it, so I still get to see it everyday. Here’s a picture of it:
http://www.facebook.com/brianna.brumfield#!/photo.php?pid=3148521&id=611866213&ref=fbx_album
I found your blog via the Serif/Sans post because I’m all about fonts (and design and layouts and grammar and other geeky things that I’ll go ahead and stop listing) and it was so good that I’ve resigned to go through and read all your archives. You’re awesome! Thanks for blogging.