Generalism in Art

Conrad Botha Generalism

Conrad Botha Generalism
Conrad Botha Generalism
Conrad Botha Generalism
Conrad Botha Generalism

These are recomendations of Falon Shusaku Arakawa - a contemporary artist - Here’s on of his paintings, "Is As It: Blind Intentions VIII", 1982 Georges Seurat’s painting, "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte." 1884 - 1886. That’s right, he worked on this magnificant painting for two years - it’s a masterpiece by any definition! And then there’s Picasso - how could I not covet works by Picasso? Consider this work, "Crucifixion." 1930 (I happen to really love Picasso - my avatar, as a matter of fact, is "The Rower." 1910. You can see The Rower in the Houston Museum of Fine Art). OK, I could just go on, naming artists and pasting images all day long, but in the spirit of the question, I’m going to make a choice - if I could only have ONE piece of art, it would be. . . Well, at this exact moment it would probably be "The Kerosene Lamp." 1924, by Joan Miro - below. Why? In a lot of ways, Miro is one of the most important artists of his day, and he has had a profound influence on art and artists in the 20th century. He touches the child in all of us with images, and at the same time, the same images speak to larger truths and issues. He’s not particularly political, but his works capture some of the angst of the politics of his time, and ours. And I can spend hours lost in his work!

Conrad Botha, Bits and Pieces

Paul Klee

Paul Klee - "Photograph" (?) -
- Image Copyright © (cf.www.dhm.de/lemo/)

Paul Klee - "1914" - (1914)
- Image Copyright ©
(cf. SHB ArtWeb Gallery)

Paul Klee - "On a Motif from Hamamet" - (1914)
Tempera on board - Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel,
Switzerland - Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Hermitage" - (1918) - Watercolor on
chalk ground - Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum,
Bern, Switzerland - Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Once Emerged from the Gray- of Night" -
(1918) - Watercolor on paper mounted on
cardboard - Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum,
Bern, Switzerland - Image Copyright ©
(cf. cgfa.sunsite.dk/klee/p-klee6.htm)

Paul Klee - "Station L 112" - (1918)
Watercolor on paper mounted on
cardboard - Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum,
Bern, Switzerland - Image Copyright ©
(cf. cgfa.sunsite.dk/klee/p-klee6.htm)

Paul Klee - "Cosmic composition" - (1919)
- Image Copyright ©
(cf. www.arts-studio.com)

Paul Klee - "Nocturnal Festivity" - (1921)
Oil on board - The Solomon R. Guggebheim
Museum, New York, NY, USA - Image
Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "A Young Lady's Adventure" - (1921)
Watercolor - Tate Gallery, London, UK
Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Crystal Gradation" - (1921)
Watercolor - Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Revolving House" - (1921)
Oil on cotton cloth - Thyssen-Bornemisza
Collection, Madrid, Spain
Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Red Ballon" - (1922)
Oil on muslin primed with chalk -
The Solomon R. Guggebheim
Museum, New York, NY, USA - Image
Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Senecio" - (1922) - Oil on gauze
- Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Image Copyright © (cf. SHB ArtWeb Gallery:
www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca/art/)

Paul Klee - "Tale à la Hoffmann" - (1921)
Watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard
Metropolotan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Image Copyright © (cf. cgfa.sunsite.dk/klee/)

Paul Klee - "Mural from the Temple of Longing" -
(1922) - Watercolor, printer's ink and
plastered canvas mounted on cardboard
Metropolotan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Image Copyright © (cf. cgfa.sunsite.dk/klee/)

Paul Klee - "Puppet Theater" - (1923)
Watercolor on chalk ground
Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum,
Bern, Switzerland - Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery: www.abcgallery.com/K/klee/)

Paul Klee - "Chinese Porcelain" - (1923)
Watercolor on plaster slab
Collection Mr. and Mrs. Werner Moser,
Zürich, Switzerland - Image Copyright © (cf. SHS ArtWeb Gallery - Exhibit Abstraction)

Paul Klee - "17 Astray" - (1923)
Watercolor and India Ink on paper
mounted on cardboard - Kunstmuseum
öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel,
Switzerland - Image Copyright © (cf. cgfa.sunsite.dk/klee/)

Paul Klee - "Carnival in the Mountains" - (1924)
Watercolor on paper on board
Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum,
Bern, Switzerland - Image Copyright ©
(cf. Olga's Gallery: www.abcgallery.com/K/klee/)

Paul Klee - "Botanical Theater" - (1924-34)
Oil and watercolor on board
Private collection - Image Copyright ©
(cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Fish Magic" - (1925)
Oil and watercolor varnished
The Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "The Golden Fish" - (1925)
Oil and watercolor on paper, mounted on
cardboard - Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Image Copyright © (cf. SHS ArtWeb Gallery
Abstraction and Formalism: Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - "The Mask with the Little Flag" - (1925)
Watercolor on paper mounted on
cardboard - Staatsgalerie, Munich, Germany
Image Copyright © (cf. CGFA: cgfa.sunsite.dk/klee/)

Paul Klee - "Gate in the Garden" - (1926)
Oil on panel - Huggler Foundation
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland - Image
Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Reconstruction" - (1926)
Oil on muslin - Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Around the Fish" - (1926)
Tempera and oil - The Museum of Modern
Arts, New York, NY, USA - Image
Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Attrapen (Omega 5)" - (1927)
Oil and watercolor on cardboard -
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid,
Spain - Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Flora on Sand" - (1927)
Watercolor on paper - Collection Felix Klee, Bern,
Switzerland - Image Copyright © (cf. SHS ArtWeb Gallery)

Paul Klee - "Little Jester in a Trance" - (1929)
Oil and watercolor on hessian - Museum Ludwig,
Cologne, Germany - Image Copyright © (cf. Olga's Gallery)

Photography in Generalism

Painting Starry Night in Generalism, Conrad Bo

I have included some photographs, on some of the methods I used to create a new type of abstraction.

Conrad Botha