Art Lovers discussion

I used to be your favorite drunk

Good for one more laugh

Then we both ran out of luck

And luck was all we had

You put on a uniform

To fight the Civil War

I tried to join but no one liked

The side I’m fighting for

So let’s drink to when it’s over

And let’s drink to when we meet

I’ll be standing on this corner

Where there used to be a street

Paul Klee?

Hi Chris, two minutes! Haha, You were waiting for this?
But alas, Paul Klee we had on May 12, 2019 01:41PM.
Another guess?

Dekooning?

Absolutely correct Ruth!
Was it too easy?

I don’t remember having seen it before, but somehow it just looked deKooningish to me.

Who’s the poet?

Short movie about DeKooning on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/tFJxdZKl5Yo

Ruth wrote: "I don’t remember having seen it before, but somehow it just looked deKooningish to me.

Who’s the poet?"

Ah, the poet is one of my all time favorites: Leonard Cohen:

https://youtu.be/XHRUq3jYp00

Dekooning is one of the first early Abstract Expressionists whose work I find enjoyable. It is much richer, more complex than Frankenthelers, Newman, Kline and the others. He is the key man for the movement at its earliest.

He continued painting long after he was deeply affected by dementia. I read that they would just guide him into the studio, get his palette ready, put the brush in his hand and he would pop into action.

Indeed. this is a pic from an exhibition of these late works at Skarstedt, London, 2017 :



https://www.skarstedt.com/gallery-exh...

They work for me. Kind of eerie though, how they have diminished in depth and complexity, mirroring his diminishing mental abilities.

Ruth wrote: "They work for me. Kind of eerie though, how they have diminished in depth and complexity, mirroring his diminishing mental abilities."

They sure do mirror his diminishing mental abilities. I appreciate his earlier work better and think these demonstrate his diminishing artistic touch. It's like he just doesn't have it anymore. There's no depth to them. They do nothing for me.

I think they have their own way of speaking. Just different.

I agree with both of you. The later work is greatly diminished in emotive effect, substantiative weight and complexity but there is still a remnant of what's happening. Just nearly nowhere as important as the earlier work.