Some Favorite Painters

They say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and art is too. Some people can only appreciate representational art, while others like artists such as Kandinsky. He is one of my favorite artists. He was intrigued with color, and it shows in his work. His art is playful and that gets to me artistically.

Many people like Picasso. But cubism doesn't do anything for me, not Picasso's nor Braque's cubism. I do like Picasso's Blue Period and his Rose Period. Maybe it is the color thing. I have a friend that really likes cubism. Again, art is in the eyes of the beholder or at least what one likes goes from the eyes to the brain and lodges in the heart.

Another artist whose work intrigues me is Matisse. The way he flattened his work and the colors. Modigliani, I like the his penchant for giving his portrait subjects long necks, and the way he styled their faces...the expressions.

That's a short comment on a few of my favorite painter's. Their work looks great to my eyes.

Art Confiscated by Nazis Now Online

In 1937 the Nazis confiscated 21,000 pieces of art that they declared debauched. Art historians connected to the Berlin's Free University have worked for eight years to compile a database that documents the outcome of that seizure.

The website is now online and explains the story of where each piece was robbed from and if they are still in existence, where the piece now resides, if the historians uncovered the present location. Some works were destroyed.

The Nazis removed artwork from public museums and private collections. Some of the artists represented are Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Nolde, and Max Beckmann.

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