Weekend Edition 25

Henri Matisse

Snow Flowers, 1951

You are hopping from a rectangle to a rectangle, trying things out(the white figures). But you don't feel attached to them. They are too white, too cold. You are looking for a passion, for something that could be you. Then suddenly you hit the black figure. It feels right. This is definitely you. It embraces you. It intrigues you. You have found your passion. Yes, you did have an orange rectangle before(in the lower right corner). But it was not a right time or the right place or the right figure. To find your passion you have to be in the right time/place/ state of mind.

Joan Mitchell

at Cheim & Read (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Untitled, 1959

On the first look, the person looks calm, easy going, even plain. He seems joyless, removed and cold. Then you start getting to know the person. You dig a little bit deeper, and you see that he's  got  dark side. It is full of feelings, internal motion and passions. And all of those are a lot more powerful, concentrated and even fearful, because they are concealed and don't have an outlet.

Joan Miró

at Waterhouse and Dodd (TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Sans Titre

You have a hive of different thoughts (the gray figure in the lower left corner). You have passion (the red figure in the lower center). Then one of the thoughts adjacent to the passion gets extended, becoming an idea(a black line between the gray figure and the red figure going up to the black figure in the center). Fueled by the passion the idea grows into a  something real. It is already a thing that you do. Combining it with other ideas of yours(the black line bordering the red figure from the right) and with ideas from others(the black line from the yellow figure) takes your thing to another level. In the process of doing the thing you create other ideas(the black lines extended from the black figure). They may not lead to anything else. And maybe the thing will die off eventually, but the main thing is that while you are busy with all of these, you find new passions(the color circles : green, blue, violet, gray).

Weekend Edition 4

Gustav Klimt at ArtFinder

Danae

This is a beautiful woman in love. She gives everything: her feelings, her desires, her passion. She opens up to her lover in all her insecurity, vulnerability, imperfection. And yet she is perfect, gorgeous, tender and warm. She is Sun (orange details: hair, nipples and lips). Her love is the rain of gold to the person who can make her to fall in love with him. But all of this is covered to the outsiders by cool green fabric. The cloth hides the inner softness and lovable imperfections. The outer image is perfect, cool, inaccessible, mysterious.