Max Weber,American,b.in Russia 1881-1961,Russian Ballet,1916,oil on canvas
In 1913 Max Weber wrote of his creative process:"We shall not be bound by visible objects-only the essence we as human beings can get out of them... Memories are visible."Weber saw a performance of the Russian Ballet in New York in 1914 and shortly afterward executed a watercolor recording his expressions of the dancers.Two years later he painted this oil,which shows crystallization of this memory in even greater abstraction.
Max Weber,American,b.in Russia 1881-1961,Russian Ballet,1916,oil on canvas
In 1913 Max Weber wrote of his creative process:"We shall not be bound by visible objects-only the essence we as human beings can get out of them... Memories are visible."Weber saw a performance of the Russian Ballet in New York in 1914 and shortly afterward executed a watercolor recording his expressions of the dancers.Two years later he painted this oil,which shows crystallization of this memory in even greater abstraction.