Piet Modrian

This is the painting that knocks the wind out of me at the MOMA. Brings tears. Seems the most sacred.

‘Everything was spotless white, like a laboratory. In a light smock, with his clean-shaven face, taciturn, wearing his heavy glasses, Mondrian seemed more a scientist or priest than an artist. The only relief to all the white were large matboards, rectangles in yellow, red and blue, hung in asymmetric arrangements on all the walls. Peering at me through his glasses, he noticed my glance and said: “I’ve arranged these to make it more cheerful.”‘

He painted a fake tulip white because he banned the colour green from being in his house

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Rodney Greenblat

I just stumbled on this

http://www.whimsyload.com/home.html

What! This is his bio…..

Rodney Alan Greenblat is a creator of intriguing and whimsical art. His paintings and sculpture have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. He is the author and illustrator of children’s books, and creator of computer art and characters for children and adults. Rodney’s sculpture was featured in the 1985 Whitney Biennial, and his work was a major component of the East Village art scene. Rodney designed the characters for 1996 hit Sony Playstation game “Parappa the Rapper” which has sold over 3 million copies world wide.

WHOA ! …..
The Center For Advanced Whimsy is Rodney’s New York City showroom and studio.

THERE’S MORE !

Welcome to my (Rodney) web site, a constant work in progress. In this latest version I am switching many of the older areas over to a new database driven format. The gallery page demonstrates how many of my works can be viewed through a search system. I am constantly creating new works, and since the 1980s I have created thousands of pieces. Little by little I am adding older works to the database, and over the next few months I hope to add info on works from the 1980’s and 1990s. Many of my famous productions such as Funscreen, Dazzeloids, and Canworld are not yet well represented on the site. My children’s books, Thunder Bunny and Slombo The Gross will eventually be added. Many of my Japanese consumer products can bee seen in the shop area, and I hope to include projects that I did for Sony, Minolta and Family Mart in the main database in the future. For now you can find images of those projects on RodneyFun.com.

Gee’s Bend

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i’m back to playing with sticker vinyl. …..insprired by the Quilt’s from Gee’s Bend. I saw the exhibit at the De Young. I am love with the prints at Paulson Press and buying up the stamps!

Hailed by The New York Times as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced,” the quilts of Gee’s Bend make San Francisco the final stop in their widely acclaimed nationwide tour.

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend features a selection of more than 60 quilts made by four generations of African American women who inhabit a strip of land formed by a deep loop in the Alabama River, about thirty miles from Selma. Descended from slaves and isolated for decades by geography, poverty, and government indifference, the women of this community assembled quilts of astonishing artistry. Described by one reviewer as “eye-poppingly gorgeous,” the quilts were pieced from scraps of fabric often salvaged from worn-out clothes combined in extraordinary combinations of color, pattern, and texture. In design, the quilts are equally remarkable. Bold geometric shapes, dramatic shifts in scale, and an improvisational approach to the way the fabrics are assembled produce abstract compositions more akin to the rhythms of jazz and African art than to the order and repetitiousness of many traditional American quilts.

pics: http://www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/quilts/
yummy prints:http://www.paulsonpress.com/BendolphM/Bendolph_gallery.html
text: http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=549