While reminiscing, already, about my trip to New York (I fly home later today), I realised that I had seen yet another movie - The Young Victoria. We enjoyed it greatly. We were also amused by the fact that we come from Melbourne, in Victoria, and that one of the oldest suburbs is Coburg - you might have to see the movie to understand this. I can't remember the exact date Victoria became a separate state but, at a guess, I'd say it was in the reign of Queen Victoria, while Lord Melbourne was Prime Minister. (Yes, yes, I should know this.)
But, even more surprisingly, I had forgotten that I had seen the prints of Gabriel Orozco at MoMA! They were amazing, so many variations of the same design, using colour. I didn't spend a great deal of time in the room as I was still trying to keep the Tim Burton stuff in my mind, but it was truly fascinating. A whole room covered by slightly different prints. And I am finding that I do love geometric designs. They were what appealed to me the most with the Kandisnky wordks also, although they were not arranged so mathematically.
Showing posts with label Kandinsky. Show all posts
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Kandinsky at the Guggenheim
Today I trotted off to another exhibition. I'll be getting exhibitioned out! It was a 35-40 minute walk to the Guggenheim to see the Kandinsky exhibition. It finishes this Wednesday, so I am not sure how long this link will work.
It was very crowded, maybe because it has only two more days after today. He sure was prolific, there were lots of paintings and works on paper. I did not like them all but some were beautiful. I was also impressed by how he could do such straight lines, perfect circles and thin lines using gouache. (I know, I should have been impressed by more than this, but it was truly impressive to see such control.) I rather liked the works on paper, I got to see them after I had seen the paintings and it may have been the different setting, a separate room, not the spiraling gallery, that appealed to me to.
The building is impressive, as I am sure I do not need to tell anyone, and the areas for viewing the larger paintings were huge.
I think I preferred his later work, where he did more abstract works and where he used shapes and lines. His earlier work had very bright colours. We were given a free audio guide but it got to be too long for me, I was getting exhausted by all the information, the large number of pictures and the slow movement, so I turned it off and just enjoyed the works.
It was very crowded, maybe because it has only two more days after today. He sure was prolific, there were lots of paintings and works on paper. I did not like them all but some were beautiful. I was also impressed by how he could do such straight lines, perfect circles and thin lines using gouache. (I know, I should have been impressed by more than this, but it was truly impressive to see such control.) I rather liked the works on paper, I got to see them after I had seen the paintings and it may have been the different setting, a separate room, not the spiraling gallery, that appealed to me to.
The building is impressive, as I am sure I do not need to tell anyone, and the areas for viewing the larger paintings were huge.
I think I preferred his later work, where he did more abstract works and where he used shapes and lines. His earlier work had very bright colours. We were given a free audio guide but it got to be too long for me, I was getting exhausted by all the information, the large number of pictures and the slow movement, so I turned it off and just enjoyed the works.
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