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Green and Blue Too in Art
as painted by eight artists:
Ellsworth Kelly, Claude Monet,
Frede Christoffersen, Hans Simon Holtzbecker,
Georgia O'Keeffe, Joan Mitchell, Neil Welliver,
and Vincent van Gogh.
Blue-Green
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) American
Oil on canvas, 50" x 68" (w x h), 1961
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Museum notes edited:
Painter Ellsworth Kelly emphasized pure form, color, and spatial unity in a practice that influenced Pop art, Minimalism, and hard-edge and color field painting-along with the development of American abstraction at large. He envisioned fine art as a compliment to modern architecture. Since his first retrospective in 1973, at the Museum of Modern Art, Kelly has been the subject of a number of high-profile solo shows at institutions including the Guggenheim, the Tate, and the Centre Pompidou. At auction Kelly's pieces regularly sell for seven figures with a high auction record of $9, 800,000 USD at a 2019 Christie's, auction.
Woman with a Parasol -
Madame Monet and Her Son
Claude Monet (1840-1926) French
Oil on canvas 32" x 39" (w x h), 1875
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Museum notes edited:
With Manet's assistance, Monet found lodging in suburban Argenteuil in late 1871, a move that initiated one of the most fertile phases of his career. At its purest, impressionism was attuned to landscape painting, a subject Monet favored. In this painting his skill as a figure painter is equally evident. Contrary to the artificial conventions of academic portraiture, Monet delineated the features of his sitters as freely as their surroundings. Monet's art conveys the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait. He used pose and placement to suggest that his wife and son interrupted their stroll while he captured their likenesses.
Tordennat / Thunderstorm by Night
Frede Christoffersen (1919-1987) Danish
Oil and tempera on canvas, 19" x 20" (w x h), 1963
SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Various sources edited:
Frede Christoffersen (1919-1987) was a Danish painter and illustrator. While Denmark was occupied by the Nazis, from 1942 to 1943, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, both at the graphic arts school and at the school of painting. In the early 1940s, he illustrated books. He also created colored woodcuts and produced book covers and posters but finally concentrated on painting. Many of his works were in small formats but he also produced murals for Copenhagen's Danish Distillers (1956) and for Denmark's Askov High School (1957). Like his wife Agnete Bjerre, he frequently exhibited his work at the Danish Art Association, Demark's oldest association of artists.
In 1965, Frede Christoffersen was awarded the Eckersberg Medal, the an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1986, he was awarded the annual Thorvaldsen Medal by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, for the highest distinction within the visual arts. The record price for Christoffersen's paintings at auction is $5,744 USD.
Iris Latifolia / Iris
Hans Simon Holtzbecker (1610-1671) German
Gouache on vellum, 10" x 15" (w x h), circa 1635-1664
SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Christies edited:
Hans Simon Holtzbecker lived in Hamburg, specializing in flower painting. Four albums of his flower paintings are recorded. The Gottorf Codex, painted in the 1650s commissioned by Duke Friedrich III likely for his wife, Duchess Maria Elisabeth; another the Anckelmann florilegium, painted for the Anckelmann family of Hamburg; and the Moller Florilegium. Holtzbecker appears to have painted almost exclusively on vellum, the most luxurious and expensive material, indicating the high status of his patrons. Today his paintings have been auctioned for as much as $770,00 USD.
Blue and Green Music
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) American
Oil on canvas, 19" x 23" (w x h), circa 1919-1921
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Institute of Chicago notes:
Around 1920 Georgia O'Keeffe painted a number of oils exploring, as she later recalled, "the idea that music could be translated into something for the eye." In Blue and Green Music, O'Keeffe's colors and forms simultaneously suggest the natural world and evoke the experience of sound. She was drawn to the theories of the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, who, in his 1912 text Concerning the Spiritual in Art, argued that visual artists should emulate music in order to achieve pure expression free of literary references.
No Rain
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) American
Oil on canvas, 158" x 110" (w x h), 1976
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wiki, edited:
A native of Chicago, Joan Mitchell is associated with the American abstract expressionist movement, even though she lived in France for much of her career. Her emotionally intense style and its gestural brushwork were influenced by nineteenth-century post-impressionist painters, particularly Henri Matisse. Memories of landscapes inspired her compositions. She famously told art critic Irving Sandler, "I carry my landscapes around with me."
Her later work was informed and constrained by her declining health. Mitchell was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. She earned over $30,000 in art sales between 1960 and 1962, while still in the middle of her career, a significant figure for a woman painter at that time. At Christie's New York in 2014, Mitchell's untitled 1960 abstract painting sold for $11.9 million, surpassing the high estimate, while setting an auction record for her art. The result also established a new record for an artwork by any female artist at auction, later surpassed by a work by Georgia O'Keeffe. In May 2021, Mitchell's painting 12 Hawks at 3 O'clock (circa 1962) sold for a record $20 million at Art Basel Hong Kong.
Nude in Striped Robe
Neil Welliver (1929-2005) American
Oil on Canvas, 1968
Wiki edited:
While teaching at Yale, Welliver's style evolved from abstract color field painting to the realistic transcription of small-town scenes in watercolor. In the early 1960s he went to Maine, where he began painting figures outdoors, the large oil paintings often focusing on his sons canoeing or female nudes bathing. In 1970 he moved permanently to Lincolnville, and by the mid-1970s the figure as subject had given way to the exclusive study of his noted landscapes. Welliver's works are represented in many museums, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Green Wheat Fields, Auvers
Vincent van Gogh (painter) Dutch, 1853 - 1890
Oil on canvas, 36" 29" (w x h), 1890
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Museum notes edited:
Green Wheat Fields, Auvers was painted during his final months in Auvers, a village just north of Paris. Van Gogh painted the Romanesque church, the town hall, and some of the picturesque thatched-roof houses. As he did in the countryside surrounding Arles and Saint-Rémy, he also painted landscapes. This work is indeed singular in that there is no legible motif beyond the grassy field, road, and sky; no farmers or horse-driven carts; no rural structures. Instead, pure flora is whipped up by the wind. Two-thirds of the composition consists of the field in a rich range of greens and blues, punctuated by outbursts of yellow flowers. As in the paintings he completed in the countryside surrounding Arles and Saint-Rémy, here Van Gogh painted a pure landscape.
Vincent wrote of his return to northern France as a kind of homecoming, a peaceful restoration of his mental state in which the vibrant, hot colors of the south were replaced by cool, gentle hues in green and blue. In Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, Van Gogh's energetic strokes describe the movement of grassy stalks in the breeze, their patterned undulations creating a woven integral form anchored at the right by a juncture of field, road, and sky.
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