Weekend Edition 42

Fernand Léger

The House in the trees, La Maison dans les arbres, 1913

Your house (the orange colored structures on  the left) should be in harmony with nature (the green spheres from the lower left to the upper middle). When it does (the green stripes between the house and the trees, and the light green small trees on the left), the nature will envelope you and protect you from outside forces. 

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Juan Gris

Guitar and Pipe, 1913

The guitar is a simple object. Nothing special. You are sitting in a cafe, smoking a pipe. The pipe brings you into a philosophical mood. Then you hear the magical sounds of a guitar. It creates a mystery from vibrating air(the black guitar silhouette). It changes your plain white reality into much more deep colorful being. Together with the philosophical mood, it makes you think about art. You start drawing a new draft of your new art project.

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Georges Braque

Still Life with grapes and clarinet

A table on the patio. Green grapes in a vase. Clarinet is playing in the background. You remember your trip to Tuscany. Vineyards. Small villages. Green hills. Bright sun. The contrast between the sunny side and shades. Blue skies. White (yellowish) wine in a glass. Grapes look like notes that you hear from clarinet (black circles on white background). The music takes you to Italy and back in a matter of seconds.

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Pablo Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Guitar and Clarinet on a Mantelpiece

The brown background is the earthiness of common life, where most of the time you are occupied with material needs. The mantelpiece is a decoration for a fireplace, where the fire of life is flaming. But when the fire is out, what is left are black smoke, ash and emptiness.The place is pretty gruesome. But you fell a fresh breeze (light blue at center bottom). It is a mantelpiece(blue figure in the center). It makes your fireplace prettier. Human beings have this urge to beatify the life, to invent artificial things that decorates the nature of life. The guitar and clarinet represent art as the most purified decoration of all. The art makes you dream(the white figure). And even that they are very fragile (the upper right corner of the blue figure), they make you see life much more bright (the white dotted corner).