Vibrant, relatively unambiguous, structured layering, landscape centered, compositionally soft-rhythmic to violent spontaneous thin-dense brush strokes in the form of gestural abstraction to visualize emotions (tranquility to rage to a sense of despair in later years).

 

 

 

Joan Mitchell: a prolific American abstract expressionist inspired by gestural landscapes from the Impressionism movement particularly Claude Monet, Franz Kline, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. “A painting is an organism that turns in space”

“Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of
space and form: it’s an ambivalence of forms and space. Style in painting has to do
with labels. Lots of painters are obsessed with inventing something. When I was young,
it never occurred to me to invent”

Foreboding and ominous artistic expressions of the first World War….

Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) was one of the greatest of the Expressionists who painted the  “Apocalyptic Landscapes” series (1911-1916) drawn from biblical  prophecies of the apocalypse,  which rose to fame for its premonition of the socioeconomic, political and emotional chaos that would ensue in Berlin, Germany during WW1. The series are depicted from a sky view in lush bold colors with clashing contrasts of disruptive, distorted and eerie aesthetic scenery. From cosmic bombardments or bombs, fires, fleeing refugees, destroyed buildings and dead bodies are in pictorial unison of violence preempting an uncertain, nihilistic and dystopian future.

The Impressionist years…….simple, idyllic natural light, landscapes, faint brushstrokes, captures the “common man”, undefined outlines and subjects in motion,

Avenue de l’Opera, Snow Effect

The Banks of the Oise near Pontoise

Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather

Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps

Hay Harvest at Éragny

The Road to Versailles, Louveciennes: Morning Frost

The garden of Pontoise

Camille Pissarro(1830-1903)…..Danish-French impressionist painter in his early to mid career renowned for landscape canvases and help solidify the Impressionism era with   Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. He was a mentor to perhaps the greatest four post-impressionism painters including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin

 

 

Abstract,traumatic painful,memorial, fragile, somber, dark, old, transformational, provoking, erotic, symbolic…….- Pervasive contemporary themes of motifs, sculptures and prints……

Louise Bourgeois(1911-2010)….French American artist…..aka “Spiderwoman”: “Art is a guarantee of sanity”

Art Curation inspired by “G I R L” – Pharrell Williams

Contemporary art  at the Hôtel du Grand Veneur, a 17th-century Hôtel Particulier in the Marais area of Paris – features 48 works. Among the collection are works by Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Daniel Arsham, JR, Alex Katz, KAWS, Takashi Murakami, Yoko Ono, Terry Richardson, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol which illuminates the essence of women in  contemporary art,  culture, music and society.

 

 

 

Lucas Block: Contemporary paintings of vibrant colored shapes with harmonic aesthetic …….

 

 

 

Salt Labyrinth by Motoi Yamamoto…………..!!!!!!

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Salt seems to possess a close relation with human life beyond time and space. Moreover, especially in Japan, it is indispensable in the death culture…..Motoi Yamamoto

A sit down with Jeff Koons by Pharrell Williams

Women under the influence of “Zero gravity” by Nikolay Tikhomirov

Life at its best……

Tijuana

The beauty of a woman……….!!!

Juxtaposition of subjects to create proverbial and complex figurative art………..!

David Salle…..Post modern artist renowned for his cynical, complex, somewhat pornographic, representational, cultural, historic artworks. His rhetoric juxtaposes images from different sources into original artwork to derive different interpretations from the audience. The paintings might seem chaotic or messy but there is an underneath method and message to his madness.

 

A sit down with Steve McCurry ……by the Sartoralist: Scott Schuman

Pharrell Williams’s perspective……

Pseudo-rectangular architecture……

Tokyo, Japan

Zagreb, Croatia

Aalen, Germany

 

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

A tour through Andy Warhol exclusive and unconventional art collection at Christie’s Rockefeller Plaza New York….

Geology+art+music= Bjork’s Mutual Core……

Simply weird……….

 

 

 

LUCIAN FREUD: GRANDSON OF SIGMUD FREUD…..Notable PAINTER-Realist artist

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Known for his psychological impact on the  viewer through his paintings. Expressionism(art to evoke emotions), surrealism(art with absurd juxapostion),  realist art, organic painting naked subjects, thickly brushstroked paintings(impasto), exaggerated body positions, portrait art are some of the art categories that describes his work. His stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art. His nude paintings had a factor exaggerated lumpy body mass and showed expressions of  fatigue, distress and torpor from overtly long hours of paintings of live subjects  also depicted in arresting close-up. His live painting session revolved around deriving a relationship between the painter and subject to derive real emotions to express on his paintings. His paintings lacked fully saturated colors that derived emotions that he tried to avoid. Subjectivity and intensity of his work has always set him apart from the sober tradition characterized by British figurative post-war art. As an emerging painter, Freud was heavily influenced by British artist Francis Bacon’s disruptive smear and portrayal of the innate perversity of the human existence. Like Bacon, Freud succeeded in turning his models’ bodies into a painterly residue, recognizably human but still grossly material.

 

Surreal: Hanging houses ……….

Chechere Laurent is a French artist who surprises with its management in the manipulation of photographs. Take pictures of houses and buildings fairly typical in more peripheral areas of cities and then levitates these constructs among birds, clothing, power lines and all the everyday life that tend to live with them. Creating a surreal image of a reality as common as houses and buildings in the neighborhood.