Gary J. Kirkpatrick Art and Travel Blog
Expressionistic and representative art
This is another version of my Panamanian friend. She was one of our Spanish teachers – they called them facilitators as they did not do formal teaching as much as immersion. Always friendly and in a great mood. It was only in the past year I learned she had trained as a model and was so good in front of a camera.
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Go, Figures started life as a regular modeling session but in acrylics, not the usual way to go. It evolved into this. The background is inspired by František Kupka’s Mme Kupka (1910). He was a Czech artist and she his wife. I saw the painting at the Nieu Gallery in NYC, at a special exhibit that included some of Klimt’s famous paintings.
This is another version of my Panamanian friend. The background is inspired by František Kupka’s Mme Kupka (1910). He was a Czech artist and she his wife. I saw the painting at the Nieu Gallery in NYC, at a special exhibit that included some of Klimt’s famous paintings.
I was at my nephew’s house and he had this hat. It belonged to one of his friends. I guess he’s left it behind. I love these hats!
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The music series continues. Five semi-realistic female figures will pale to blue-white skin perform. Four instruments are visible. One stairs straight ahead, eyes misaligned,another has eyes that are mere slits, two are in profile, three straight on, one wears what appears to be a glove, legs mingle, some disappear, arms there and not there.
Xylophone player at the Palau de la Musica, Valencia, Spain. Fun house floor suggests a departure from every day reality, meeting with the muse, traveling to the realm of creativity.
Comments from my Facebook timeline July 24, 2016
Marti: Loved it Gary!
Sandra: This is fabulous Gary!
Carol: I love the energy.
Patricia: The combination treatments of floor patterns are interesting
Part of the Palau de la Music Series. Muses prepare the stage and the instruments for the performance so musicians step into the realm of creativity.
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) is best known as one of first women to paint female nudes. A German painter and very important early expressionist, She is credited for the introduction of modern painting and used tempera almost exclusively.
In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity. She is becoming recognized as the first female painter to paint female nudes. Using bold forays into subject matter and chromatic color choices, she and fellow-artists Picasso and Matisse introduced the world to modernism at the start of the twentieth century.
Marie Laurencin, Enchanting Poses
Marie Laurencin 1883-1956 Paris
Marie began her art career studying porcelain painting in Sevres, then went to Academie Humbert, where she became a painter. She exhibited at the Salon des Independents and the Salon d’ Automne in the early 1910’s. In the 1920’s she was an important member of the avant guarde. Picasso was among her cohorts. She was a known bi-sexual, thus perhaps explaining some of her choices for subjects. She married a German, Baron Otto von Waëtjen, and lived in Spain with him during WW1. They divorced after the war. She was successful selling her art in the 20’s but the depression hit her business hard. In the 30’s she taught art.
Some o her paintings have an ethereal quality. The pastel like presentation as seen in this example is typical of this style, as is the subject matter, beautiful young girls in leisure.
She also painted in the Cubist style, and was also friends with Braque. Many of her works are now at a museum dedicated to her in Nagano Prefecture, Japan
