Beginning as a journal of weekly trips to the Art Institute - this blog then began to focus on museum history -- and now will present responses to new posts made on the A.I.C.'s own blog.
I live life dangerously by ignoring the advice of Chuang Tzu: "Your life has a limit but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger". Badly spoiled by my wife, I spend mornings in sculpture studio, afternoons in record shop, evenings on the internet, weekends at the Palette and Chisel Academy and Art Institute of Chicago,
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There's something about the mix of the abstract and concrete in Sheeler that's always attracted me. Flat surfaces, empty of most detail, plenty of basic geometric shapes, expanses of color with little attempt at modeling, all of these togetehr show Sheeler's interest in the abstract nature of what he saw.
But the jumble of angles and the firm location of paintings in both place and time speak for his interest in the concrete here and now, or there and then. His paintings look the way what I wish my photographs would, but all too often in my pictures I find that there are too many wires or other distractions and that the play of abstract shapes is thereby obscured.
Here's a blogging photographer I really like for her interest in "the abstract nature of what she saw"
And sometimes -- she even does buildings.
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