It’s been a month since my last post. Kept meaning to pick it up again but got caught up in a cycle of procrastination and mental health issues, plus other stuff going on in the background, it’s been difficult to get into my art head space. No new artworks for a while apart from one thing I may yet abandon. I doubt I’ll really do much this side of Christmas now, maybe start fresh in the new year. Last month I managed to see the Expressionist exhibition at Tate Modern, which I really enjoyed. I feel as though I’ve been living in a artistic void this last year or so, not really getting out there to see exhibitions and grab some inspiration, so the Sunday afternoon visit to see Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider group was like a breath of fresh air. Seeing Kandinsky’s works again reminded me of how much I loved his paintings way back when I first started out on my artistic journey. I even wrote my essay about him for my A-Level. I still have it as well.
Anyway, here’s a selection of photos from the exhibition that stood out for me. (Please excuse the photography!)
Vassily Kandinsky, Cossacks 1910-11
August Macke, Portrait with Apples (Elizabeth With Apples), 1909.
Marianne Werefkin, The Red Tree 1910.
Lyonel Feininger, Gelmeroda III 1913
Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, Der Blaue Reiter, R. Piper & Co, Munich 1914