Pompidou-Day 9

When we went to the Pompidou I chose to focus on three pieces—The first being Sonja Delaunay’s La Belle Busier, Kupka’s Compliment, and an video installation called Danse Serpentine by Anonymous. All three pieces were within the same room, the Musical Eye/Early Abstraction: Color and Light as Movement. I felt that all three worked well together because they not only played off of the other pieces within the room and the negative spaces that were created by the open exits/entrances, but that they were great transitional pieces to help guide the viewer in-between the two separate spaces. Within each painting there is a definite feeling of movement; whether it would be the first wave of static movement in Delaunay’s, the apparent vibration of Kupka’s painting, or the soft, fluid movement of the dancer’s dress, bleeding into different colors in the Anonymous video piece. I found the idea of creating a tangible artwork based off of an intangible sound extremely intriguing. Making sound visible in the manner of color, color blocking, blending, as well as the use of movement through the foreground, middle ground and background was such a smart decision on all three of the artist’s parts.

After the Pompidou we went for Crepe’s at Creperie Beauborg-SO GOOD. I had Crepes for every meal yesterday—I don’t think I could get sick of them here.