LOVING COUPLE, watercolor

LOVING COUPLE, watercolor, 9x12 in, La Jolla Art Gallery exhibition. Artists' Reception Saturday, November 16th, 5:00-7:00pm. La Jolla, California.

Kandinsky said: "...Manet started it all when he began to remove pictorial detail in his paintings such as "The Absinthe Drinker" (1858). Each generation of artists that followed removed more and more visual information from their paintings. When Kandinsky saw Monet's haystack's series in Moscow in 1896, he was so impressed, he left his job as lecturer at Moscow's University of Law, and went to Germany to study art.

GAUMONT, ALESIA, PARIS, inkwash

Gaumont, Alésia, Paris, inkwash 7x7 in.
Sitting at the corner cafe, Metro Alésia , having a cup of coffee in the morning, while watching people go by and sketching. That is the life in Paris!!!

One day last week I went to the Pinacothèque de Paris. The exhibition of Chu Teh-Chun, "Les Chemins de l'Abstraction", is magnificent! Chu Teh-Chun has lived in Paris for over 25 years. He says that it's all a matter of energy, the capacity of showing with a unique brushstroke that painting and poetry are one. He says he was impressed by reading Kandinsky: "Abstract art, far from being separated from nature, is more intimately closer to nature than art has ever been."

Health Care

Health Care, watercolor, 11x14 in. available matted, at the San Diego Watercolor Society Holiday Bazaar , this weekend and next weekend, December 1 and 2, and December 7 and 8, San Diego, California.

"The artist must have something to say. Her work is not to master the forms, but to adapt the forms to its content, to what she's trying to say." ---- Vassily Kandinsky

L'Hallucination des Pyrenees

L'Hallucination des Pyrenees, oil on canvas 70x90 cm., 35x45".  Available: 500 Euros, or $730 US. Mailing within Europe included.
John Gage, in COLOR IN ART, tells us that the red-blue-yellow triad had established itself as fundamental among artists all over Europe b y the middle of the 17th C. Yet, blue and yellow were given new authority as the "only primaries" in the 19th C. by Goethe and others. They also formed a dominant pair for Matisse and Kandinsky.
L'Hallucination des Pyerenees, oleo sobre tela, disponible. Envio dentro de Europa incluido. 
John Gage, en el libro "Color en Arte", nos dice que el trio rojo-amarillo-azul como colores primarios fue establecido como fundamental entre los artistas europeos en la mitad del siglo XVII. Sin embargo, el azul y amarillo gozaron de nueva autoridad como los "unicos primarios" en el siglo XIX, de acuerdo a Goethe y otros. Tambien formaron un par dominante para Matisse y Kandinsky.

Rider in Blue, Gavarnie

Rider in Blue, Gavarnie. watercolor on Yupo, 25x38cm. Of course the title is a take from Kandinsky's "Blue Rider"! this poor rider is on a donkey in the French Pyrenees, with the Cirque de Gavarnie with the longest waterfall in Europe behind him. Kids are playing in the river, hikers are walking away. It's a summer afternoon.
Watercolor does very interesting things on Yupo. Yupo is soft like paper, but it's not paper: polypropilene I think they said. It does not absorb the water, you have to let it dry flat, as the water evaporates all the pigment rests on the surface, since nothing is absorbed, like in watercolor paper. The result is brighter colors; it works best in dry climate, since it takes longer to dry.

El caballero en azul, Gavarnie. acuarela en Yupo. Por supuesto que el titulo es un juego basado en el "Caballero Azul" de Kandinsky. Este pobre caballero esta en un burro en los Pirineos franceses, con el Circulo de Gavarnie con la cascada mas larga de Europa detras suyo. Hay chicos jugando en el rio, caminantes se alejan hacia la montana. Es una tarde de verano.

La acuarela hace cosas interesantes sobre Yupo. Yupo es blando como el papel, pero no es papel: creo que se llama polypropilene. No absorbe el agua, debes dejarlo secar horizontal, mientras se evapora el agua el pigmento queda en la superficie, puesto que nada es absorbido, como ocurre con el papel de acuarela. El resultado es colores brillantes; funciona mejor en climas secos, pues demora mas en secar.