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This is at Green Park station - they've torn off all the layers of advertising posters all the way down the platform, ready to put new posters up
André Derain (1880-1954)
Le Noir à la mandoline (1930)
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
A noted Fauvist, Derain has been recognized as one of the most influential of French expressionist painters
Nocka
Mr. Grzegorz, born 1953. Prison tattoos done between 1972 (ZK Strzelce Opolskie) and 1979 (ZK Hrubieszów). In 70's did a gig (“tournée” as he call it) around several polish penitentiary fascinates. His first tattoo (woman’s head on the back) was done using burnt rubber from the shoe sole, the rest with ink. Has one scratch tattoo (“drapanka”) - the naked woman being executed (on his back). On the belly bears prominent tattoo with ϟϟ-woman holding luger and whip.
Wola, Warsaw, Poland, August 2017
Oostzaanstraat, Spaarndammersbuurt, Amsterdam, NL.
Michel de Klerk, Amsterdam School, Brick Expressionism.
Designed 1919
more of de Klerks creative bricklaying
When I first started seeing abstract art, sometimes called bohemian then, circa 1958, I actually thought it was neat, cool, okay, interesting. By the time I was a full-time gallery denizen in the mid-60's, I was splashing a bit of paint around myself. The key is to produce something interesting and then you can sell it, I thought at the time. Well, others were doing it;
This particular piece of rather pure abstract art, I will not append the concept of expressionism here, was produced from 2002-3 as I used this plastic ex-pizza box for my palette. So this is actually an artifact, which in its final incarnaton, appears abstract, though if one looks carefully, one can imagine the brush of the artist, seeking to mix color or to obtain a particularly fresh dab of yellow .... can you see it?
I think andré breton said something similar in the manifesto de surrealisme, oui? or as Magritte said in his famous painting of a man's tobacco pipe, "This is not a pipe," thus by inference, though my photo looks like an abstract painting, it is not a painting, it is a palette.
By August Macke (1887-1914). Barely two years after painting this scene of charming domesticity, the German expressionist painter was killed on the battlefield, an early casualty of World War I.