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Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.
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Busy today but wanted to share some work and a video from a painter, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), whose work I believe has not received the attention I believe it deserves. For an artist who had a painting sell for $23 million at auction, it seems kind of absurd that his name is not more well known. I like his works for the very things he speaks of in the quote above– their rhythm, form, color and mood. Take a look.
Redtree Times 
I don’t recall encountering Feininger before, but I like these paintings — especially the sense of movement that permeates what could, in less talented hands, remain static forms.
[…] this year on this blog, I showed a few paintings from American painter Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Every time I come […]