Hey ladies!
Happy Thursday to you! I have a terrible cold today, so I’m going to not write much….seems like there’s always something going on that’s going to prevent me from writing much. I should really just stop bothering to say that. But it doesn’t really matter.
Thankfully we’ve finally made it to the end of January. Even knowing that February will be awful, at least the first third of winter is over. I’m sure that doesn’t matter much to you Florida girls, but if you remember your Minnesota days, you probably know what I’m talking about.
So today I’m going to show you some pieces from Wassily Kandinsky. Tell me that’s not a great name! It sounds like a superhero to me. The writers who create superheros pay a huge amount of attention to the alliteration of their names (the repeating of certain sounds) because people apparently find names that have alliteration to belong to people who are better people – which is why you have Bruce Banner (the incredible hulk), Peter Parker (Spideman), Clark Kent (Superman) etc. Well Wassily Kandinsky has FABULOUS alliteration…but it comes out of my mouth all slithery sounding….it would be a perfect evil wizard name.
Anyway, Wassily (sometimes spelled Vassily – I think that’s a Russian thing, making those interchangeable, but it would seem to me we should spell it however HE spelled it and not flip it around) was not an evil wizard. He was a Russian law professor who decided he wanted to be an artist, and became a truly famous abstract and theorhetical artist…which means that by the end of his life, all of his work was really, really DEEP. Since I am really, really shallow, I like his earlier stuff best – it was impressionistic, but full of bold color (the first 2 images below are great examples). His work has sold for $20mil plus, so people do seem to like him.
I have a rug in my house that was inspired by the circles painting. I like it as a rug. Less so as a piece of art. But the last image I do like, primarily because for whatever reason, when I look at it, I see Klimt’s the Kiss – which we talked about a long time ago. The two paintings look absolutely nothing alike, it’s just something in the shape. So that makes me happy.
I’ll leave you to read more about how profound he is if you choose to do so. J
Hope you’re having a wonderful day, know that I love you and think that you’re awesome.
Hugs and kisses,
Auntie Paula
xoxoxoxo
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