Weekend Edition 45

Umberto Boccioni

States of Mind : The Farewells

You want to go, you want to stay. You are not sure what to do (The yellow structure in the lower left corner). But the attraction of new, of change wins over. You take the dive(the black structure in the lower left middle). Then the stream of journey takes you further and further away, where on one side everything is new and exciting and on the other side things remind you what you have left.

Weekend Edition 44

Pierre Soulages

Peinture 10 Juin 1958, 1958

Everyone goes in one direction. They all have to be the same. But some, while seemingly doing what they should, they are rebelling inside (brown figures). But most of them are afraid to show their nonconformism. Then one goes off the course(the diagonal black ribbon). Though he is the same inside as others, he feels that something needs to be done. This move aliens him from others. But this bold move creates followers (the diagonal brown ribbon).

Weekend Edition 43

Ellsworth Kelly

Study for Blue White, 1960

Woman. It's the lips you kiss. It's the back, you caress. It's the hair, you trace. It's the wit that sharp as a knife that opens up to you. And still she is a black hole of unknown mystery.







Marshall

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. 

Weekend Edition 41

Ben Nicholson

Gouache, 1940-43

A couple (the rectangles combined from the colorful figures(black, beige, yellow, blue, white). They are felt connected. They have a lot in common. They are good together. But they are different. The things have different priorities.

Weekend Edition 40

Berthe Morisot

The Beach at Petit Dalles (aka On the Beach), 1873

The fuss of regular life is boring you. Those people on the foreground are too occupied with the details of everyday life. The sails call for freedom, adventure. The ships are promising a journey to far away exotic countries that you only have read about. The sea scares you with its might and absolute loneliness.

Weekend Edition 39

Auguste Herbin

Composition, 1940

The person is constantly under the influence of different forces. He wants something new, but he is afraid of new things. He sails out full of hopes. Then he turns back to his circle, because it is scary to be out there alone. He is in a contradiction. He zigzags from one course to another. He is full of power and energy. But never ending changing of direction and types of actions take him nowhere.

Eventually the power dies out, the individual becomes static (small orange circle with yellow border in the upper left center).

Weekend Edition 38

William Baziotes

The Room, 1945

The room has not only the items that are physically there, but the things that were there and events that happened ( the red lines). That's what makes a house home.

Weekend Edition 37

Henri Matissei

Woman with a hat, 1905 

The woman has the iron grip on her life. She is smart, but she has a calculative, cold mind. She is lonely. This was not always a case. She had full of events life. She was daffy. She was sensual, full of desire. But then a sad thing happened. It could be a love affair with a bad end. She ended up with a broken heart, alone, free of illusions, cynical.

Weekend Edition 36

Henri Rousseau

Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest, 1905

A woman! She is so desirable. She is in the center. But she is surrounded by so many rules, precepts (the short plants). The blue flowers are the romance and courtship. This leads us to the ripe and juicy exotic fruit : Desire! It is weakly disguised in the upper branches of the trees that are deeply rooted. When you got up there and tasted the fruit, you want more of the exotic, sweet and forbidden fruit!

Weekend Edition 35

Pablo Picasso

La pisseuse, 1965

Every woman is a carefully constructed outer image (white stains - the dress). The image is built in the way that you should not see that it was constructed (the pyramid wrapped in the white cloth). Her exposed breasts represent her sexuality. The legs show her groundedness, her pragmatism and common sense. Her vagina is her connection to the nature. The stream coming out of her is the time that is part of her relation with the nature.

Weekend Edition 34

Arthur Dove

Clouds and Water, 1930

Dreams they are like clouds. With a wind, they easily move in any direction and cover any distances. Some dreamy white-blue fulfills into down-to-earth brown. But most of blues don't survive the collision with rocks of reality. The dreams are turned into a rain of depression and desperation. The leaves of lost hope are sinking in the puddle.

Weekend Edition 33

Lyonel Feininger at Moeller Fine Art (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Der Marktplatz, 1916

The square after a busy market day. It is quiet, clean and empty, but you still can somehow feel the energy of the morning. People, animal, crops, produce - everything dances, moves, screams in the festive-like atmosphere of commerce. The market is main business hub of this small town. The market defines the town as a community.

Weekend Edition 32

Lyonel Feininger at Galerie Thomas ( Art 43 Basel 2012)

The Anglers (Black Bridge), 1942

You have dreams. Then there are dreams based on the previous dreams. And you are dreaming about something that is derived from those dreams. At some point, you have started implementing your dreams. You build something concrete that spans your dreams - a bridge. It didn't come out exactly as you dreamed. When you are implementing your dream, you are losing a dream, but you are gaining reality.

Weekend Edition 31

Natalia Goncharova

The Forrest, 1913

 

Events. Some things in your life you can predict and plan for(the red "trees" on the left). The power to do it comes from your own experience and self-confidence(the blue ribbon along the lower edge). The events that were unfolded according to your plans boost your self-confidence (the blue space in the upper middle). You don't have any influence on some other events(the green "trees" in the center and right side). You can only get prepared and see what happen. This unpredictability is making the life much more interesting to watch.

Weekend Edition 30

Paul Cezanne

The Cards Players, 1892

The players are the regulars in the place. They are relaxed. A lomg night of card playing is ahead of them. The players are concetrated on the game, because the game is the only enertainment in their life. They are simple people, their life is simple. They don't have hobbies, they don't have interests. They work. They earn money. They survive. The meetings at the card table in the joint is the best thing that happens in their life.

Weekend edition 29

Frantisek Kupka

Etude pour la montée, 1920

To grow something you need some soil (black figures in the bottom) and some water (whitish blue figures stretching from the bottom to the middle). All of the sudden your plant is growing. You need to feed it small portions of sun and water (red figures with blue border) That is how you make your idea-dream into the reality. the soil is your creativity. The water is your resources. and the sun is the exposure to the bigger environment. If the idea is good enough, it will get only stronger with the critique and the competition.

Weekend Editon 28

Wassily Kandinsky

Black and Violet, 1923

He and She. She is on the left, all curvy and round. She is full of sun rays, sunsets and horizons. She is romantic, but she is very detail-oriented. He is solid, logical. He is more about strategy and general directions. He lets her to fill out the details, while she is following his directions. They are different, but are atreacted to each other like magnets.

Weekend Edition 27

Richard Diebenkorn

Untitled, 1970

Winter. Naked black trees. Everything is gray. Even the snow is not white anymore. You have a cold, depressing feeling. Everything is smaller than it is used to be. The roads are narrower. You have a need to cuddle into small with your blanket. You are passive, trying to save the energy to heat yourself.

Weekend Edition 26

Jasper Johns

Ventriloquist, 1986

Midwest. Two brothers are working on the farm. They served in the army, in Vietnam. They did because they thought it was the right thing to do. now, it is not cool to talk about it, so they keep quiet about the service. They look like simple people, but they are much more sophisticated. They remind a whale, big powerful, but mostly hidden under the water. Because they are silent, somebody else uses it and put the words in their mouthes.