Today, I display the second of the ‘Pink’ series. Yesterday I explained that Willem de Kooning’s work, Pink Angels, inspired me. This painting was a mix of pink body parts strewn on a mustard-yellow background. The pink shapes that I used were also body parts, but instead of being the violently torn-apart appendages of women, mine were […]
I’ve been reading about Willem de Kooning. Many think that his paintings, Pink Angels, was the cusp of his transition from figurative to abstract. I liked it in part, because of the pink figures on the mustard-colored background. I began today with streaks of transparent iron oxide on a titanium white background. Originally I had planned to […]
I anticipate a goldmine of information and inspiration from the book I am reading, Reductionism in Art and Science: Bridging Two Cultures, by Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel. He points out the similarities between the investigative methods of neuroscience and the experiments of the abstract artists of the ‘New York School’. This group of […]
