Works of art you really like that are not at all typical of what the artist is best known for

[gracer]

@pulykamell

Yeah, I love Kandinsky, but I’m not that much of a fan of his geometric Bauhaus period and beyond (though there are a couple I like). Those paintings do feel a bit impersonal to me, as well. However, I do like his abstract expressionist work during the Der Blauer Reiter years. He is known as much for that work as his Bauhaus stuff, I think. Something like this, for instance. That still has some representational elements in it, though it is abstract. Also, something like this. I find those paintings very emotive, warm, personal, energetic. There’s a romance and movement to those works, like the earlier stuff you linked to, that I just don’t get with his geometric stuff.

I’m not allowed to see the first link, but I agree on the second one. You really see his personality in it, it’s like a bridge between his colourful early work and the really abstract geometric stuff.

[Slithy_Tove]

I don’t much care for the “yes but he could paint realistically if he wanted to” validation of Modern, so the reason I like this Paul Klee is because it’s a picture of two men who are each trying to bow lower than the other because they’re naked and can’t tell who is richer; not because it’s more conventional than the iconic Paul Klee.

There could only be one Honoré Daumier, there still should be as many artists as possible working the same themes.

[elizabeth.evenson]

@KarlGauss

Oh, yes! That is magnificent.

I take it, then, that you are also familiar with Klimt’s Portrait of a Man with Beard. I like it almost as much as the Burgtheatre. Klimt is amazing!

I have always admired the work of Klimt.

[denquixote]

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