Whaam!

TOday felt like a pop art day so I am posting Whaam! by Roy Lichenstein. I think comic book or graphic novel art os so over looked I love that this is in The Tate Museum.

It certainly does not leave much to the imagination for observation but it does evoke a childhood memory of reading comics in the summer. I love the power of art for that it will many so many different things to so many people but it evokes strong feelings or memories.

art people over look.

I wanted to something on a modern art I think people over look and belittle a bit. So I choose a piece from German artist Harry Guenert. I find these types of painting fascinating and hate that people underestimate them or choose them because they match their couch or think they could do. So take some time and take this in.

I love the seaming simplicity of this while the complected textures really make it beautiful. it feels very peaceful and old like a favorite pair of shoes or a rusty old car. That worn in comfort that feels like home. Almost like an old sleeping bag you have had for years. I love the randomness of the pattern and natural feel to it. It is weird the depth that appears to live there in such an uncomplicated image. With the limited color there is so much color actually there.

So this is what I took in what did you?

One of my favorite artists

SO I figured It is my choice of what I get to put here so I am putting one of my favorite artists Rene Magritte I have always love surrealism it has such whimsy to it his pictures of the very proper man with the apple for a face have been one I look for often. For this I choose his painting Apple couple. Hope you like it as much as I do.

 I love the whimsy of this. I love that it could be a normal fruit painting but it conveys so much more I think it speaks to me of relationships as people we put our best forward hiding the parts we do not like but like the browned edges of the leaves it shows any way. It is like every facebook couple I see smiling away from profile after profile. I love how out of place and over sized they are. the moon out showing through the clouds on a sunny day. The feeling of it being ok and not all at the same time perfectly normal and abnormal too. It reminds me not to take life so serious and to be silly once in a while. I am sure it has deeper meanings but this is what it says to me.

What does it say to you?

Bursting

This is a peice I found in art gallery in New York well on their sight. I Know I am not an art critic this caught my eye and I wanted t take some time to take it in and share it with you. I really believe art is for people if they do not feel or feel like they can it is a waist. I hope you enjoy this and that I have something to share about what took in and that you do as well share what you feel about this with me and others.

Listen to Living

Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911-2002)

The first impression I get is about destruction and life with just the colors and shapes the volcano looking thing erupting with the life below but as I looked longer I stopped focusing so much on the face image I saw in the blue "smoke" in you will from the eruption trying to look at just the colors I love the light and dark in this the vibrating with the void of the black. The 'lava" I first saw became more person like like bursting forth in celebration and the volcano more like legs like a mother giving birth. I found objects in the warp of the painting I think this is a painting about the environment and the flow of life destruction and birth. It is brilliancy bring both into the same image this way. the flowers and animals as much of it as the people images.

What did you see?

Taking me back.

This is an image from Paul wright's painting It just popped out to me when looking for what I was going to look at for today. Take at least 10 min and let it affect you. it is so hard in our days to do that we are so used to flipping through pictures so fast making quick judgments about them we miss the effect that one piece can have on us.

I see so much dignity in these faces they remind me of my own grand parents the loss of life drips off of them but the vibrant people they are shines through even if life has worn them down. this makes me want to cry at the hardness of life and the beauty of it too. the strength she holds and the kindness of his heart lives in his eyes. they are in love with the closeness of how they sit but it is a tempestuous thing for them. This may be just me putting my grandparents in this with their nick names for each other being you old crow said with such playful affection. The is so much sadness dripping from their eyes. Her hands seem more wringing now than closed off. I am over whelmed with the desire to want to know them they seem like they have so much to say stories I need to know of life and loss. the way this is painted brings so much life to it so much of what I think is in side the people bursting out. It makes me long for my grand parents all sides everyone, but they are all gone now. I wish I knew them more as people not as a child sees an adult but really know who they are. To see them as individuals not just mom dad or grandma and grandfather. This seems briming with longing for me.

What does this say to you? Please share with me.

This is the sight I got this off of please if you enjoyed this visit and enjoy more of his work. http://www.escapeintolife.com/painting/paul-wright/