Saturday, September 28, 2013

Wolf Kahn - from 2000 to today


New Suburb, 2001


Single Tree (Against Blue), 2001


White Sky 2002


Barn Behind a Thicket, 2003


Fall Orange, 2004 Oil on Canvas


House in a Haze, 2005


Weathered, 2007 Oil on canvas 28 x 32 inches


Agitated, 2009


Pale Accents, 2009

White Facade Behind a Hill, 2009


Derived From A “Late Evening” Pastel, 2009, oil on canvas


Pale Yellow Strand of Trees, 2010, oil on canvas


Woodland Chaos, 2010


Green Saturation, 2011


Pond off Barrow Road, 2011


Barns in Perspective, 2012


Barns in West Chesterfield, 2012

“Eighty percent of painting is color,” says Wolf Kahn, quoting his mentor Hans Hofmann. “The problem,” he cautions, “is that when you mention color, people automatically assume you’re talking about bright color–colorful, loud, or boisterous hues. Color used in an uncontrolled way, without proper concern for the tone and structure of a painting, comes across as garish.”

Leon Dabo

Leon Dabo (1864 – 1960)

 Evening on the Hudson (1909), oil on canvas.
This painting won a prize from the National Arts Club.


The Sea, 1911


Leon Dabo, a study of talloires, 1939

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Emil Nolde, part II

If you, like me, appreciate Emil Nolde, check also part I on this blog

Seacoast (Red Sky, Two White Sails)


Irises, 1907


Village, Cospeda, 1908


Autumn Glow, 1925


Frisian Farm Houses, 1936


Red Sea with Setting Sun and Steamship, 1946


Poppies and Red Evening Clouds, 1949


Marshy Landscape under the Evening Sky


Mountain Landscape


Red and yellow sunflowers (Rote und gelbe Sonnenblumen)

Red, yellow and blue blossoms


Evening Landscape North Frisia

Moise Kisling

Moïse Kisling (Polish-French 1891-1953)

Mimosa



Paysage du Midi, 1918

Young Woman with red hair (Jeune femme rousse), 1927


Red Haired Girl  - 1938


Marseille, 1939

see also wikipedia




Marcel Dyf, a French post-impressionist

Marcel Dreyfus, dit Marcel Dyf  (1899 – 1985)

The Field Of Poppies, Undated


Wheat Field


The Vase with Wild Flowers, 1950


Young Woman In Pink, 1956

Wheat field and village in Provence


Bois Darcy


The Corn Field

Marcel Dreyfus, dit Marcel Dyf (Paris 11e, 7 octobre 1899 – Bois d’Arcy, 15 septembre 1985), est un peintre post-impressionniste
French Wikipedia

Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946)


Ostende (1916)
Pastel on paper

Little Red Riding Hood (Le petit chaperon rouge), 1917


Pont près de Zandvoorde, 1930


The Pond (L’Étang), 1936

Léon Spilliaert (28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist.
Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, who was a perfumer, and Léonie. From childhood, he displayed an interest in art and drawing. A prolific doodler and autodidact, he was predominantly a self-taught artist. Sickly and reclusive, he spent most of his youth sketching scenes of ordinary life and the Belgian countryside. When he was 21, he went to work in Brussels for Edmond Deman, a publisher of the works of symbolist writers, which Spilliaert was to illustrate. He especially admired the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
Watercolor, gouache, pastel, and charcoal—often in combination—were the means by which he produced many of his best works, among which are a number of monochrome self-portraits executed in the early years of the twentieth century. Spilliaert's expressive use of black finds parallels in the work of Odilon Redon, who was a significant influence. Frequently depicting a lone figure in a dreamlike space, Spilliaert's paintings convey a sense of melancholy and silence.
His later work shows a concentration on seascapes. He died on 23 November 1946 in Brussels.