He was entirely unaffected in his literary work, and everything that he wrote down to the last days of his life is marked by his characteristic logicalness and force.It may be that the reason he forgot the details of real life was because he was too deeply absorbed in his abstract work.…Cited from Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by Ilya Tolstoy
The drips Maltzman leaves behind have become an identifying feature to the artist's entire collection, especially his abstracts.These paintings can take anywhere from a month to three years to finish, as Maltzman often re-enters his abstract work.Most of these abstracts involve textured colors seeping through a more neutral top layer.…
Lacasse himself had a one-man show at L'Equipe in 1937 during which he showed some of his abstract work.Lacasse's coloristic developments of the time also testify his great admiration for Robert Delaunay whom, according to Michel Seuphor, he met in 1931 and whose gatherings at his studio Lacasse attended during 1938 and 1939.…
Fifteen years later, now in his late sixties, he came back to art with a vengeance.He began attending life drawing classes and churning out hundreds and hundreds of works on paper, mostly figurative, which still showed the command of movement, line and form that had characterized his abstract work.He continued painting, drawing and revising until 2011, when advanced dementia made it impossible for him to work.…
With his pictures which he painted to conceal his abstract work in large numbers, plus the destruction of his main works and his extensive and wide-ranging later works, today give a distorted picture of the work of the Bauhaus artist Bartoschek.Works of his can be found in the Museum Haus Schlesien (Deutsches Kultur- and Bildungszentrum e. V., in Heisterbacherrott, Museum of the City of Lennestadt) as well as in private collections.…
After years of teaching art at small country schools in Thuringia, Franke and his wife, Ute, established a successful ceramics business in 1966.Freed from relying on any official Communist support, his abstract work from the 1960s and 70s was often critical of the Stasi and depicted primitive, abstract creatures caught in a web of state oppression, thus he never exhibited in the GDR.After German Reunification, Franke turned toward figurative paintings set in the countryside around the castle of Arnshaugk, near Neustadt an der Orla, where he had lived as a recluse until his death in 2002.…
Orphism also alluded to the myth of Orpheus and referenced the artist's creative innovation through the sensuous interplay of color and light and color and music.Kupka was not an Orphic Cubist like Picabia, Gleizes, or Metzinger, as his abstract work did not have its origins in Cubism.While other artists later developed a theory of abstraction to explain their work, Kupka first thought up his theory and then put it into practice.…
