choose 2 artists

Abstract Expressionism

Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night Over the Rhone

1888

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Hormony/Monotony

This use of repitition makes me feel peaceful, also van gogh's use of colors gives it the peaceful appearance.

Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night

1889

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Hormony/Monotony

This particular painting makes me feel homesick. I used to always look up at the stars. The emphasis of repitition on the stars makes me remember home.

Wassily Kandinsky

Red Spot 1

1921

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Contrast/Chaos

This chaotic painting makes me happy. It evokes playfulness and childlike feelings.

Wassily Kandinsky

Circles Inside a Circle

1923

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Contrast/Chaos

This painting shows "contained chaos" it resembles my mind, all my thoughts scrambled around with no way to get out.

Minimalist

Dan Flavin

Greens Crossing Greens

1966

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Harmony/Monotony

I chose this one simply because green is my favorite color so it is very pleasing to me.

Dan Flavin

Alternate diagonals of March 2. 1964 (to Don Judd) 

1964

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Harmony/Monotony

This was not one of my favorites of his but unfortuntely the only one i could get an url of.

 

Ellsworth Kelly

Spectrum Colors arranged by chance VII

2000

Shape

Contrast/ Chaos

The design and rainbow colors take me back to kindergarten, except i could never make squares that straight back then.

Ellsworth Kelly

Brushstrokes cut in twenty squares 

1955

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Harmony/Monotony

It makes me think of how peope see the world in black and white

Post Minimalist

Sol Lewitt

Splotch #15

2005

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Contrast/Chaos

I really like this peice because it reminds me of when paint drops and splashes but its like the entire spectrum.

Sol Lewitt

wavy lines with black border

2004

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Contrast/Chaos

It reminds me of aimless scribblings

Eva Hesse

repetition nineteen III

1968

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Harmony/Monotony

They look like candles, but the brownish tones make the peice very monotonous.

Eva Hesse

schema

1967-68

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Harmony/Monotony

The semi-orbs are arranged evenly and give the illusion of a gameboard..

Today (last 10 years)

Chuck Close

Sean Connery

2002

Shape

Harmony/Monotony

I like how the slightly less exagerated cubes become harmonious by creating the image of a man.

Chuck Close

self portrait

2002

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Harmony/Monotony

I remeber learning about him and i like how he uses squares with strange shapes inside to create a harmonious picture. Up close it just looks like a lot of scrambled shapes but you step back and see the masterpeice.

Chris Millar

Back in the groove

2009

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Contrast/Chaos

I like how the different designs represent different things throughout the past and present 

Chris Millar

untitled

2000

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Contrast/Chaos

I like these kind of pictures that you can stare at for hours and always find something new.