levitation and others

I found a few artists that I really like at the Leopold Museum the other day, the expressionist painter Egon Schiele and expressionist sculptor Ernst Barlach. Schiele’s paintings are very figural yet abstract. His color palettes are cool. The good ones are the Levitation and some other scenes of roof tops. Barlach’s sculptures strangely I found are elevational and quite ‘gravitying’. Meaning, it is not merely an object on a pedestal like the classics. The ‘pedestal’ here is the integral part of the whole sculpture. And that makes it a natural (or of nature) object wrestling with gravity. His pencil and charcoal drawings are so interesting too. It convinces me to keep studying monochromatic arts. The next day, I visited chbl’s gassometer. I think it’s really nice and makes my trip there worthy. Really, it’s much more than interesting or eye-catching images as we have seen before, maybe, in magazines. It’s consistent with their body of works and his philosophy and attempts on urban spaces.