the 1st ever magazine cover of de stijl

Interesting typography.

I appreciate the paintings by mondrian.... here are a few of the precursors to 'the syle'



composition in oval with colour planes 2, 1914

composition no. 10, 1915



the ebb and flow of shimmering water, or sea

composition 1916



office space

here mondrian.... is attempting to move away from braque and picasso's analytic cubism



picasso's ma jolie, 1912

The artistic philosophy, led by mondrian, that formed a basis for the group's work is known as neoplasticism



composition with yellow blue and red, 1937

composition in colour b, 1917

Some of them look like mazes. I keep trying to find a path through them.

I saw this Mondrian at the MOCA last Thursday.

And Jackson Pollock's Number One (permanent collection) is back on display.

nice.... how did it feel? What did you make of it? And where are the pictures, lol

how was the visual experience with this painting.... did pollock allow, or even encourage, viewer visual navigation throughout the various depths rendered within the overall planar surface? I find a lot of his canvas' often discourage this participatory and activating experience.... this one however, seems as though that visual possibility has been achieved!

It's really something to see. A photo doesn't do it justice. They caught us taking pictures and made us stop. Once you've seen a Pollock, you can't get enough!

haha.... yeah they tend to frown upon such things! The rushed and blurred looking photo has become more understandable now!

Yeah, no time to get it right. It's a good camera, and given time she could have gotten some fantastic photos. Like this one:

oohhh I like that one, nice palm trees, clean streets and hazy blue skies .... but who's the hippie girl in the orange tee that somehow looks familiar

Franz Ackermann African Diamond

.... did you see this one?

Haven't seen that one before. Warhol's Brillo Boxes were put away too. Wanted a picture of those.

.... is she stubborn in her beliefs like her dogmatic old man I wonder!

Galileo was stubborn too, and almost got burned for it. "Yet still, it moves" he said of the Earth. Always be stubborn to uphold the truth, justice, and honor.

agreed.... dogmatism has it moments and is the correct course of action sometimes.... sometimes!

For Galileo to say that the Earth moves in space was the ultimate anti-dogma of the day.

"Free trade" is a current dogma that I reject. When I talk about the virtues of fair trade, I am being anti-dogmatic.

tell me about it.... now that the canadian loonie is on par with the u.s. dollar here in canada we are still paying double for the same goods and services available to the u.s. consumer

rick.... have you lost your radical edge, fell back over into it's concrete abyss of absolute dogmatism? Have you become a beacon for the man?

No.

I like the stella.... now that guy had some style!





I'm thinking this sculpture may also be a stella..... or its a derivative there of

I call that the airplane junk sculpture. It probably has some different name, but that's what it is.

From http://www.moca.org/museum/pc_artwork_deta...eywords=stella&

Frank Stella
Ctesiphon I, 1968
Polymer and polymer fluorescent paint on canvas
120 x 240 in. (304.8 x 609.6 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Gift of Jacqueline and Irving Blum in memory of Sayde Moss

like I said.... the sculpture looks like a stella as well! Here is a stella sculpture....

Definitely similar. Must be a Stella. Next time I'm up that way I'll take a look at the identifier.

Here's a better one of the painting:



And here's the Stella outside the MOCA:

I do not recognize that black and white striped painting!