First of all, I looked at a lot of fauvism because I know we're trying to draw like fauves next in drawing class. I liked this piece by Kandinsky even though it was so much paler than the stereotypical fauvist/painting by Jaimie Mertz color explosion:
I'm still stuck in the painting frame of mind though, and I appreciated it a lot for the technical aspects of the painting as well as the imagery and art history elements. I've never worked with oil, but these washes are doing a watercolor thing that I really like in the blues. Also I'm starting to totally get why pure washes are "a bland diet" and "one note," though; the thick white chunks they're layered with totally make this texture.
And this is why I love having a 12.1 megapixel camera. I can see the layers of paint here better than I could in the gallery. And you can see close up in the impressionist paintings how so many colors come together in paint to create an image at viewing distance. The amount of time and planning and just eye that that would take is really awe-inspiring.
Lastly, I looked at some Gerhart Richter, because I feel like he's going to be a big focus of the study abroad I'm (hopefully) going on in June. It's on propaganda and design, and this piece is not only about German reconstruction, which had to deal with government messages from all angles, but also a good mix of imagery and abstraction, and so totally graphic.
Just kidding. Lastly was this painting that I totally love but looks so impossible and time-consuming to try to emulate, by this contemporary surrealist whose name I totally forget. Crap! Susan something I think, but I can't find the piece on the museum website either.
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