"Fields of Joy (one)", oil on canvas
20" x 16"
completed March 3, 2013
$350. - including shipping
(Calif. residents pay sales tax)
"Fields of Joy (two)", oil on canvas
20" x 16"
completed March 3, 2013
$350. - including shipping
(Calif. residents pay sales tax)
"Fields of Joy", the first version is a painting that I started at the end of a day of painting at my easel. I've often produced my favorite paintings after a long day of painting, and this one pleases me very much, if I do say so! It draws from Mondrian, and my post-modern era roots in southern California! Modernism is back, baby and I'm enjoying it.
I live in a neighborhood surrounded by safflower fields, alfalfa fields and right now, winter wheat. In the summer the sunflowers are everywhere . . . so we have origins for the name of this painting.
I'm focusing on abstracts and abstracted landscapes for 2013; a new season of spring, the time of growth and I'm doing new work. Please contact me if you have questions or want to purchase.
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Hi Lynne,
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Mondrian? Looks more like Paul Klee from my end. He's the one from the Bauhaus that worked on this type of color organizations ("Writings on Form and Design Theory"). There's a really nice series about Klee on YouTube that you should check out.
Best,
Russell
Thanks for the comment Russell. I know the artists that've gone before us have influenced us but I'm more interested in what I can create. Actually if you desaturated these paintings, they'd look exactly like Mondrian's 'Composition with Grey and Light Brown' rather than Klee's work where his squares are coupled next to rectangles, or painted in a skewed grid .
ReplyDeleteMondrian's Neo-Plasticism, which consists of a white ground and a grid system made of only black lines, and using only the three primary colors (yellow, red, and blue), differs quite a bit from Klee's use of color in his Polyphonies. Your paintings have none of the rigid aspects of Modrian's grid system or color system, but are more in line with Klee's work, as is your use of subdued color (which Modrian did not use).
ReplyDeleteComparing your work to say Klee's "Ancient Sound" or "Flora on Sand", you are following more along in this vein.
While you can suggest a "desaturation" of your work to have a comparison with Mondrian, I have to take the work as it is presented and its more like a "Klee" from that standpoint. In either case, both Mondrian and Klee had specific reasons for placing one color next to another, and in a prescribed manner. In Klee's case, the colors and their progressions followed a specific pattern as to both placement, repetition, and variation both in value and chroma to express movement.
I agree with you that we study those who came before and that what we create now should reflect our own intentions. To this end, I would love to see a discussion on your own design principles in the postings. Why are you putting certain colors together? What's the intent with the work? What are you trying to say differently? As our predecessors discussed and debated their work, it would be nice to continue that tradition as well.
Hope to see more works from you.
Russell has won the prize for lengthiest comment! I appreciate the interest and I've been well aware of who Mondrian is, and his style for too many decades to mention here. If we were face to face in a classroom or a critique group, this would be a more relevant discussion. Although I enjoy art history debate and critiques in a real life setting, my journal is not a platform for those. In response to your question on design, I realize I hadn't posted much discussion on my abstract painting. Read further in my new post on my design and color processes. Comments "are welcome . . .be nice though! ask a question or contribute a comment" and we can discuss, however there are zero debates, not one thing is happening as far as debates in this journal.
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