Know Oskar?

This is a little leap (from Winslow to Oskar). What do they have in common? For an Expressionist, he had a somewhat subdued color pallette as well. Had trouble with women. Had a fling with Alma Mahler- Winslow would've but he was long dead. He had also given up on intellectual creative types. The modeling is the stuff that intrigues me. They both sculpted with their paint and the sense of light in both of their painting can be real unusual and breathtaking.

And these were the only two painters that I lectured on.

Also turned up a book on Kokoschka from a thrift store on Saturday morning for the magical price of $7.00 while my daughter was at her meeting.

Oh, a word of advice. There was also sitting there in the thrift store about eight volumes of the Time-Life Library of Art - the ones on individual artists in the slip cases. The two that I've read, the one on Winslow and the one on Whistler were inaccurate and pretty low on the reality of the time period which the series claims to be presenting. Pretty pictures though. And nice photos.

Oskar had a long face and a big jaw. I thought maybe we were distantly related. Want a kick? Find a copy of "Murder, The Women's Hope" amd read it. (Oskar's play) I tried to imagine a stage production of it - women and men running back and forth across a stage killing each other - but all I could see was a bunch of 16 year old boys in phony armour (sic). It was actually produced. Old Oskar was actually a gifted prose writer.

Thrift stores are incredible places for art books if the managers don't care or don't know what they've got.

I got the Sistine Chapel for $3.00 once.