{"id":9815,"date":"2016-11-23T18:27:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T23:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2017-03-04T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:38:59","slug":"playing-with-13-rectangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=9815","title":{"rendered":"Playing with 13 Rectangles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In making a\u00a0fused glass version of Kandinsky’s 13 Rectangles, <\/em>I\u00a0intended to explore\u00a0his philosophy of color while translating the painting\u00a0from oil to another medium.<\/p>\n

I certainly learned about his use of values,<\/a> which I didn’t expect; and a bit about blending, which isn’t possible in glass the way it is with paint.<\/p>\n

\"13-rectangles\"<\/p>\n

After playing with 13 Rectangles <\/em>in glass, I wanted to try variations on the theme. So I did three others.<\/p>\n

The first was completely done with\u00a0frit, finely ground glass. I thought it would help me to blend the colors and to make small squares, which can be difficult to cut evenly.<\/p>\n

It was a disaster:<\/p>\n

\"frit-rectangles\"<\/p>\n

Frit creates texture, but in this case, it’s all texture and very little form. The edges became indistinct, which made it look less<\/em> painterly rather than more.<\/p>\n

The attempt at blending pink and midnight blue was a failure because the frit wasn’t fine enough to meld. Similarly, the overlap of red and yellow didn’t become orange.<\/p>\n

Frit also has a tendency to stray, so the scattered bits of it simply look sloppy.<\/p>\n

For the other two pieces, I stuck with cut glass, though it was a strain to maintain the right-angle edges with 1\/4 inch squares. I tried to pay attention to the value range as well as the use of contrasting and complementary colors, and went back to the clear glass background.<\/p>\n

Now we’re getting somewhere.<\/p>\n

Eleven Rectangles<\/em>, below, has its own personality, while maintaining the spirit of homage to the original 13 Rectangles.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"12-rectangles\"<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Twelve Rectangles<\/em>, I exploded the rectangles to make the composition more dynamic, but also to express the tumult that I feel these days:<\/p>\n

\"11-rectangles\"<\/p>\n

Does it work?<\/p>\n

I need time to try these with different frames and backgrounds.<\/p>\n

I photographed these just laid against a beige carpet. They look better in a floating frame hung against a wall.<\/p>\n

I’ve got one on display now, at the community fitness center where our artists group has use of the walls. When I hung it, a gentleman sitting nearby stared at it and asked me about how it was made.<\/p>\n

I truly don’t care if he buys it, or just admires it for the next six weeks. That’s enough of a compliment to keep me going.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 2015, when I first began experimenting<\/a> with 13 Rectangles<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In making a\u00a0fused glass version of Kandinsky’s 13 Rectangles, I\u00a0intended to explore\u00a0his philosophy of color while translating the painting\u00a0from oil to another medium. I certainly learned about his use of values, which I didn’t expect; and a bit about blending, which isn’t possible in glass the way it is with paint. After playing with 13 … read more Playing with 13 Rectangles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[67,35,355,284,359,347,357,160,408],"class_list":["post-9815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-67","tag-art","tag-color","tag-glass","tag-imitation","tag-kandinsky","tag-master","tag-painting","tag-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9823,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions\/9823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}