I keep coming back to the color blue. Or maybe the color blue keeps coming back to me. Or I keep getting directed and redirected to the color blue. I spent a lot of time, over the last few years, with the paintings of Joan Mitchell. There wasn’t a tree out there she couldn’t paint blue. And before Mitchell, for me, was Franz Marc. He liked to paint animals blue, especially horses. Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) became the name of the artists group and then eventually the almanac that he and Kandinsky published. The name technically refers to the rider of the horse. Kandinsky was more into riders, Marc was more into horses. But there was a lot of blue, is the point.
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