Kandinsky

Artist:Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky
Title: "On White"
size:105x98 cm
medium: oil on canvas

Born Dec. 18th 1866 in Moscow, Russia. Kandinsky was one of the first creators of abstraction in the modern form. He had many groundbreaking avant-garde exhibitions and later became solely an abstractionist. He was also an accomplished musician and played the piano. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Dr. Seuss

Artist:Theodor Seuss Geisel
Title:Martini Bird
Size: 20x30


Born in Springfield Massachusetts, German immigrant, parents were brewers and he grew up on fairytales.  Most of his work reflects his childhood memories.  In college he started doing comics for Jack-o-Lantern, his colleges Humor magazine.  After college and a long adventure in Europe Theodor returned to America to become a cartoonist.

Fracis Bacon

Artist: Francis Bacon
Size: 24 1/4 x 18"

Bacon was born in Dublin Ireland, he received no formal training in the arts. He was renowned for his massive, distorted, fleshy objects which symbolize the evils of the human condition.  He was a man who lived a life where nothing in particular interested him.  Over all, his paintings depict the isolation of the subjects from the world around them, much like Bacon's reality..

La Vie

Artist: Pablo Picasso
date: 1903
Size: 2 meters tall

Picasso painted this piece during his blue period (hence the colors).  The setting of the painting is in Picasso's studio.  The man in the painting is none other then Carlos Casagemas, one of Picasso's good friends who killed himself when denied by a lover.  Picasso never gave his own interpretation of the painting.

Altre scoverte fatte nella luna dal Sigr

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 Title: "Altre scoverte fatte nella luna dal Sigr"
 Medium: 6 leaves of pilates: all mounted and hand colored
Size: 57 x 46 cm
Artist: Leopoldo Galluzzo

 This piece displays the firm elements of line, space, and form.  Line is the primary building block to any work of art,  it is well executed in this piece for it keeps proportion and creates form.  The space in this piece shows the depth and also helps maintain proportions.  The forms of the "space craft" and all its travelers all show great movement and excitement. 


   I selected this piece because it depicts an excitement for further knowledge and exploration.  In this hand colored lithograph you see men and women all in a hot air balloon journey to the moon.  In the days of the industrial revolution, humanity wanted to conquer the planets obstacles through man-made machines and science.  In today's world we just sit complacent with all of these advances made by our ancestors.  Is this thirst for knowledge and progress still apparent, or has it reluctantly died off in this overweight, dull, computer world where excitement is just one click away?