Kandinsky

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Is the avital a Kandinsky?

[WimWalther]

Is the avital a Kandinsky?

Yep, it's a Wassily Kandinsky painting. It's one of the Composition series, though I don't know which. Most likely from the mid-20s.

To look at it today, you don't really think "that's a hundred years old", do you? The Bauhaus was decades ahead of its time.

Good eye!

[PRR]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Wassily_Kandinsky
1923  Black and Violet

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always liked the style, tried to "emulate" and failed, something about keeping my lines straight 

[WimWalther]

always liked the style, tried to "emulate" and failed, something about keeping my lines straight 

The Wiki article that PRR linked is really neat. It has all his known works in order, by date, and you can just slowly scroll and watch his style evolve incrementally from fairly straightforward, realistic work to abstract modernist.

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I liked working abstracted landscapes, that how I ran into his works, His color choices were "happier" than most.
one of mine when "I almost got it"   

[Lectroid]

one of mine when "I almost got it" 

I like it. Reminds me of Santa Barbara harbor at sunset.

 

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we'll link it all up, my thread on a wannabe artist.
https://el34world.com/Forum/index.php?topic=21390.0


not sure if this one made it in the other link, called "Glory daze" 
I put up the brushes about 5 years ago, 17 years, 2 galleries, was a long enough run to know why artist starve 

[PRR]

Someone at Scientific American, mid-century, musta loved this stuff. I don't have an example at hand but I recall bits of this style on covers and article heads. Even though his paintings were not-ontopic, the palette must inspired somebody.

Maybe this? ...edit: there's a signature hidden in plain sight (where a magazine editor might not mask it off):

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this is from a book called "Modern ART" by Cory Bell


after reading Kandinsky's "quote"  I started to rotate my abstracts after each session to "find the sweet spot"
what I found, after the 1st setting, I'd rotate, find that 90 degrees was more often than not the spot.  2nd setting, back to original start.  by the end of the painting, I had a work that could be displayed 2 different ways, the rare occasion 4 ways

[PRR]

A different artist/illustrator of the early 20th century. I noted him in Lycoming engine ads, but he did a LOT of other work. Some quite technically specific. Like "Chain-link Fence". Others too-too human. Like "Anxiety".
https://www.americanartarchives.com/artzybasheff.htm
https://www.scaruffi.com/museums/artzybas/index.html

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Nice find, I want what he smokes 


amazing works, stealing the fence maker!

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and the rest of the commentating from above
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when I "entered" the art world I found LOTS of people that talked like the article 
To coin a Country song, "the critic", add in the learn'ed, the virtue signalers, people of power n means, it's a wonder ANY artist, of ANY gene' is anything close to sane 

the last gallery I showed at was called "the Rogue artist"  at peak we had ~15 working artists, we'd set up easels on the sidewalk, make up "stories" about the people walking past, most of the artists originally came from the "official" Battle Creek art council.  they decided, as non-artists "what was art".  the last piece I sold was at one of their sponsored shows, was the only sale at the entire event, bought by an out-of-towner, husband of a well known MI artist.  I joined the Rogue that evening.