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Lena Levin 
Painter of poems
Occupation: Painter, linguist
Location: Bay Area, CA
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2013-05-23 20:05:35 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 29 +1s)
Colors week 5: The amazing Wassily Kandinsky
Posting an album with paintings by Wassily Kandinsky. I have seen some of his paintings in The Hermitage in Amsterdam and other museums. Very impressive paintings!
Wassily Kandinsky
Born: 16 December 1866
Died: 13 December 1944
The creator of the first modern abstract paintings, Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. In his youth, he studied law and economics at the University of Moscow, and was later hired as a professor of Roman law at the University of Dorpat in Estonia. He was 30 years old when he began his studies in painting, focusing on life drawing, sketching, and anatomy, at the University of Munich.
He was not immediately accepted into the school as an art student, and so in the meantime he began learning art by himself, gaining artistic insight from Mo... more »
2013-05-23 17:37:51 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
#gpluscollecting The rich have their Jeff Koons and Damien Hirsts, and collections of Impressionists, Picassos, and Old Masters. I though it would be fun to see how many of us regular people here on Gplus collect the work of others Google Plus People, and see their collections. Do you collect prints from G+ Photographers, from +Joe Azure +Jay Patel or +Athena Carey ? Do you collect original pieces of artwork, from +Lena Levin or +Terrill Welch ? Do you collect Google Plus books, like the Plus One Collection put together by +Ivan Makarov or the How We See It book I compile for charity? Do you collect awesome nature books by +Mike Spinak , fun items by +Paul Stickland , jewelry by +Jewelry by Rita Sunderland, or do you collect photos from G+ photo walks or photos with other G+ people you have met. If you answered yes, to any of the above, please share your collections, and use the hashtag #gplu... more »
2013-05-23 17:22:51 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 25 +1s)
Good morning, and fair time of day!
A colour study of pink lilies (Infinity). 16"×8" (40.6×20.3cm). Oil on canvas panel. April 2013
This is today's Daily Paintworks release, where you can zoom in:
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/134312
#oilpaintings #paintings
2013-05-23 01:12:06 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 32 +1s)
Today's work:
A small study in compassion. 12"×9", Oil on linen panel, May 2013
We cannot foretell how our word will be heard, yet there is compassion, sister to grace (after A. Tyutchev)
2013-05-22 23:35:21 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
A new "sonnet" blog post (somewhat later than expected)...
... But the boundary between the high and the low, between tragedy and farce, between a goddess and a whore – it's not as clear and cozy as some people would prefer it to be. As a matter of fact, it might even be non-existent, a matter of perspective, a subtle change in the point of view; and nobody, I believe, knew it better than Shakespeare did...
2013-05-22 17:51:10 (10 comments, 4 reshares, 43 +1s)
Good morning, and fair time of day!
All that which sang, and fought, and shone, and strove (after Marina Tsvetaeva). 20"×16" (50.8×40.6cm). Oil on canvas panel March 2013
Here is an earlier blog post about the story of this painting: http://lena-levin.blogspot.com/2013/03/down-memory-hole.html (I have replaced the photo with this "final" one). Looking at it now, while editing this photo, I see the painting is likely not complete; it has a strange misalignment between balance and disruption, which might be right for the poem at some level, but doesn't work in a painting as it should.
2013-05-22 01:27:46 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)
Over the last two days, paintings have been selling more quickly than I paint them. At this rate, if the trend continues, I will run out of them...
2013-05-22 00:21:55 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 47 +1s)
Today's work (rework):
I remember a garden. 16"×12" (40.6×30.5cm). Oil on linen panel. May 2013
I am reworking this panel for the fourth time, because it's linked to an idea very fundamental for me: the concept of shared memories; memories shared via interpersonal emotional connections and via art in all its forms, so that someone else's memory might become clearer, more vivid, more emotionally urgent, than something you have experienced yourself. In the most important sense, you did experience it: whether or not it happened to you, or not to you, or to anyone at all, matters far, far less than the role the memory plays in your real, inner life.
2013-05-21 22:28:08 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Pretty funny these two items popped up successively in my Stream. Random synchronicity catches my attention.
2013-05-21 20:29:21 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 24 +1s)
The final photo for Sonnet 38 ("Be thou the tenth muse") added to the album. The blog post with the background story later today...
2013-05-21 17:22:23 (9 comments, 7 reshares, 68 +1s)
Good morning, and fair time of day!
Golden as the sky. 12"×12" (30.5×30.5cm). Oil on canvas panel. April 2013
The title of this one comes from the following lines of Alexander Bloc (in my rough translation):
I will never forget
If it happened or not, that night:
The pale sky burnt by the fire of dawn.
And streetlamps against its yellow backdrop.
Me, by the window in a crowded room.
and violins singing of love.
I sent you a black rose in a glass
Of Vin d'Ay, golden as the sky.
This is today's Daily Paintworks release:
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/133770
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Just in case you read Russian, but don't remember the lines:
Никогда не забуду, он был или не был,
Этот вечер. Пожаром зари
Сожжено и раздвинуто бледное не... more »
2013-05-21 16:39:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Whatever one’s final estimate of his art, Dürer’s personality is at once so imposing and so attractive, and has been so endeared to us by familiarity, that something of this personal attachment has been transferred to our aesthetic judgment. The letters from Venice and the Diary of his journey in the Netherlands, which form the contents of this volume, are indeed the singularly fortunate means for this pleasant intercourse with the man himself. They reveal Dürer as one of the distinctively modern men of the Renaissance: intensely, but not arrogantly, conscious of his own personality; accepting with a pleasant ease the universal admiration of his genius-a personal admiration, too, of an altogether modern kind; careful of his fame as one who foresaw its immortality. They show him as having, though in a far less degree, something of Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific interest, certainly as possessing a quick, ... more »
2013-05-21 01:19:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)
A new blog post in the "In Studio with Masters" series...
I am taking a step back from Matisse to tell you a bit more about Jan Davidsz. de Heem, or Johannes van Antwerpen (1606 – 1683/1684): as you will see shortly, this difference in names might reflect his life and work deeper than expected.
2013-05-20 21:45:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
From +Alexander M Zoltai :
"Your painting makes my brain do more creative work... "
I'd say, about the best compliment ever!
2013-05-20 21:38:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)
Today's work -- 2:
"Formula of salad. Oil on linen panel, 12"×12". 2013."
2013-05-20 21:32:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)
Today's work (I): trying to play around the new upload properties. "Red sunflowers", 14"x11", oil on canvas panel.
2013-05-20 15:50:34 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 38 +1s)
Good morning, dear friend, and fair time of day!
First daffodils. 16"×8" (40.6×20.3cm). Oil on canvas panel. March 2013
This small study is today's Daily Paintworks release, where you can zoom in:
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/133532
2013-05-19 18:51:45 (9 comments, 5 reshares, 51 +1s)
SILENTIUM: Summer breakfast. 14"×11", Oil on linen, March 2013
This is another one from the SILENTIUM series, because this moment before the birth of Aphrodite (http://lena-levin.blogspot.com/2013/05/silentium-let-my-lips-learn-primordial.html) -- you don't really need any grand seashore scenery for it to happen; it's everywhere and every-when, it's now and here.
2013-05-19 17:38:11 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)
Good morning, dear friends, and fair time of day!
Here is my new blog post in the "Process and meaning" series:
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... the moment just before the birth of Aphrodite: this is, once again, the foam from which she is just about to emerge as she always does, but she isn't born yet (that's how the poem begins)...
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#paintings #poetry #Mandelstam
2013-05-19 00:05:20 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)
It's not easy, forgiveness. No matter how many times you remind yourself to let it go, for a while, it will keep coming back, that anger and hurt, like red and yellow running over calm purples and whites, choppy and interrupted.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/151083879/practicing-forgiveness-no-3-original
2013-05-19 00:04:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
OIL PAINTINGS
Here are a set of 3 paintings I did last month, it is a little throwback to how I used to paint back in 2011. I liked how they turned out, I may do a few more soon. Hope you all enjoy!
Urban Landscape 1, 2 and 3 / Oil on Wood Panel / 20.5 cm. X 17.5 cm. / 2013
#art #oilpaintings #abstractart
2013-05-18 00:33:40 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 38 +1s)
Today's (and yesterday's) work: Sonnet 46 (work-in-progress):
With its focus on the eye vs. heart conflict, and its not quite clear mention of thy picture, this sonnet turned, for me, into an inquiry into the nature of painting. I can almost say that thou of the sonnet turned into painting. There is an ever-ongoing discussion in the domain of painting on painting "what we see", or "what we think we see", or "what we feel", or "experience". But the question turns back and asks itself, as it were, when it comes to a painting, which is also supposed to be seen; that is, a painter, ultimately, appeals to the same sense they challenge by the very act of painting. So where does a painting lie, "in the heart" or "in the eye"?
I am by no means sure this painting is complete, but neither do I know at the moment, how it should ... more »
2013-05-17 22:30:59 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
Feels like the current sonnet has sucked all the energy out of me. And I still have lots to do before the day is over... :)
2013-05-17 17:56:30 (17 comments, 4 reshares, 53 +1s)
Good morning, and fair time of day!
A study in red 14"×11" (35.6×27.9cm). Oil on linen, 14"×11"×0.67". 2013.
This is my today Daily Paintworks release (where you can zoom in)
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/132867
#oilpaintings #paintings
This is today's Daily Paintworks release
2013-05-17 01:31:35 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 46 +1s)
A new +UGallery release today, although an older painting, an opportunity to test the new upload...
"October". Oil on canvas panel, 16"×20". Signed on back. 2011.
http://www.ugallery.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=26289
2013-05-17 00:49:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
New blog post in the "Reader's log" series, this one rather "Netflix log": "It isn't about us...*
2013-05-16 16:55:07 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 41 +1s)
Good morning, and fair time of day!
The final photo of this music study in colour from April:
Beethoven, Sonata op.26, no.12 24"×18" (61×45.7cm). Oil on linen April 2013
2013-05-15 21:10:15 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 44 +1s)
Today's work: a preliminary study (12"x12", oil on linen panel) for Sonnet 46:
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight.
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
Mine heart my eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes,
But the defendant doth that plea deny
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'side this title is empanelled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants of the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part.
As thus: mine eye's due is thy outward part,
And my heart's right, thy inward love of heart.
Although in another way, but Shakespeare continues the theme of conflict, discrepancy between... more »
2013-05-15 17:27:00 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 35 +1s)
Good morning, dear friends, and fair time of day!
Clouds and apples. 12"×12" (30.5×30.5cm). Oil on linen panel. April 2013
This is today's Daily Paintworks release; two from-life studies fused together within one picture planes: the still life was the first, the skyscape was added in rework, looking from my studio window. This puts this painting in my on-and-off "here and there" series.
Here on Daily Paintworks, where can you zoom in:
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/132363
A seven-days auction, as always.
#paintings #oilpaintings #impressionism
2013-05-14 23:50:48 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)
"In Studio with Masters" series on my blog resumes with the first part of a discussion about Matisse's version of de Heem's "A table of desserts".
+In Studio with Masters
2013-05-14 17:40:41 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)
Good morning, dear friends, and fair time of day!
Before sunset (Tomales Bay). 14"×11", Oil on linen, April 2013
This the second of a pair of skyscapes (the first one was released yesterday). They aren't really a diptych, though, because the other one is properly landscape-oriented, and this one is, as you see, vertical. In any event, this is today's Daily Paintworks release (where you can zoom in):
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/132129
In other news, I have so many plans that it's not really funny any more. Maybe I should bring myself to write all the ideas down; there was a time in my life, I recall quite distinctly, when I absolutely loved writing plans... Now, for some reason, this doesn't seem remotely tempting. "Planner's block" as it were... maybe because I don't believe anymore than writing stuff ... more »
2013-05-14 01:49:44 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)
New blog post on in the "Sonnets in colour" series...
The poem hobbles, as it were, on the second syllable, mimicking the "real" state of the speaker. Arguably, of course, it might also be an enactment of some early, Renaissance, version of "positive thinking", or an attempt thereof; quite fitting in the midst of a personal tragedy, isn't it?
2013-05-13 22:28:49 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 32 +1s)
Today's work (work-in-progress):
Life returned, without any reason. 14"×11", Oil on linen, May 2013
This small painting, still in the "in progress" pile, has three sources.
First, there is an actual bunch of tulips on my studio floor; even two, put together in the same jar, one yellow, one pink-magenta.
Then, there is this poem by Boris Pasternak, "Life returned without any reason, just as it had strangely stopped before" (I did manage to capture the rhythm of the first two lines in this translation).
And then, there is Liszt's Consolation No. 3, brought to my attention this morning by +Jan McCartney here on G+ (I was listening to Horowitz's performance (Horowitz plays Liszt Consolation No. 3); about two dozen times, in fact).
So, three pathways into the SILENTIUM this time... all taken at o... more »
2013-05-13 18:06:50 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)
About me, and poetry, and painting -- by +Alexander M Zoltai
2013-05-13 17:49:54 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
Written in 1849 as Chopin passed away, the Consolations divulge a slightly gloomy Liszt, almost sad. As he was writing a book in tribute to his Polish colleague, Liszt seems to have adopted his deceased friend's language, especially in this third consolation, probably the most popular of all six pieces.
This is what Classical 96.3 was playing as Escargot and I skimmed along the sunny/cloudy Queensway this afternoon.
The cello truly plucks at the human soul, as in the first video interpretation of this beautiful piece:
Franz Liszt, Consolation No.3, Guido Schiefen (cello), Eric Le Van (piano)
In the second video, Sylvain Blassel performs this third Consolation, S.172, on a gothic styled, twisted column Erard harp from 1907!
Franz Liszt - Consolation No. 3 - Sylvain Blassel, harp
And in the third, of course, Horowitz has well over a ... more »
2013-05-13 16:42:21 (10 comments, 7 reshares, 27 +1s)
Good morning, and fair time of day!
We have finally accomplished the long-delayed photo session, covering smaller paintings from the last six weeks... This is the first one of a pair of esquises from our Tomales Bay getaway, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset:
Before sunrise (Tomales Bay). 14"×11" (35.6×27.9cm). Oil on linen. April 2013
Released today on Daily Paintworks auction, where you can zoom in:
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/131886
2013-05-12 16:55:50 (19 comments, 6 reshares, 47 +1s)
Good morning, and fair time of day!
Nothingness (Daffodils). 16"×12" (40.6×30.5cm). Oil on canvas panel. May 2012
See the flame in the heart of daffodils?
This is today's Daily Paintworks release:
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/131680
#paintings #oilpaintings
2013-05-11 16:51:17 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 35 +1s)
Good morning, and fair time of day!
Today's Daily Paintworks release, the last from the "Erase the random lines" series:
Erase the random lines away: Bridge
16"×20", Oil on linen panel, March 2013
Here on Daily Paintworks: http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/131484
2013-05-11 02:20:55 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)
In the end of the day, I am more an audience than an actor, a listener, a viewer, a reader. But the world needs listeners too, right?
2013-05-11 01:13:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)
A new post in the "Process and meaning" series...
2013-05-10 22:56:17 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 27 +1s)
Today's work:
SILENTIUM (Pale lilac). 20"×16" (50.8×40.6cm) Oil on canvas panel
This is today's rework of a painting from the SILENTIUM series I had been working on in April. The series is anchored in Osip Mandelstam's poem of the same name, which zooms in on the moment just before the birth of Aphrodite:
She isn't born yet,
She is both music and word,
Hence the unbreakable link
Between every thing living.
There is an image in this poem, when he describes the shining foam of the sea as "pale lilac in its black-azure vessel". This is the quatrain this painting focuses on.
2013-05-10 18:13:18 (15 comments, 2 reshares, 34 +1s)
Good morning, dear friends, and fair time of day!
Erase the random lines away - 2. 20"×16" (50.8×40.6cm). Oil on linen panel. February 2013
Preoccupied as I was with rearrangements of my inner life, I never got around to editing the final photo of this one. So, here it is, straight into Daily Paintworks release, here (as always, you can zoom in there):
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/131256
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In another, somewhat unrelated piece of news (I wonder who will read up to this point...), I recently came across, once again, the rather common saying, "Art is supposed to make you think". It made me think (pun intended) that this sentence is remarkably devoid of any meaning. I am thinking all the time, except when I make a strong effort to create a vacuum in my head (which is also a part of thinking process, necessary i... more »
2013-05-10 00:13:55 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 50 +1s)
After some pause, a new Daily Paintworks auction release:
Erase the random lines away. 20"×16" (50.8×40.6cm) Oil on linen panel. February 2013
As always, it's a week-long auction, here on Daily Paintworks, where on can zoom in:
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/131031
2013-05-09 22:53:23 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 35 +1s)
Today's work: the second day for sonnet 45 (nearly done, but will look at it again).
Since the painting's composition heavily relies on the the medical theory du jour behind the sonnet, here a short expose of this theory, as I understood it from Stephen Booth's commentary (and if you think it's too simplistic or naive, just imagine how some of the contemporary theories will look like in four hundred years).
In the composition of the human body, the four elements are supposed to manifest themselves as four humours, or four primary bodily fluids, each of which combines the qualities of two elements; a person's temperament, his disposition, is determined by the "humour" dominant in their particular composition:
** Blood, Water & Fire: sanguine, optimistic humour/temperament
** Phlegm, Water & Earth: phlegmatic, sluggish... more »
2013-05-09 17:28:11 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
Quite a common situation, played out a gazillion of times both in real life and in literature: a young artist addresses an older one with the ultimate question, "_Am I a poet?_ Should I be doing this? Am I any good?"
(The first post in my new "Reading log" series...)
2013-05-09 01:18:32 (16 comments, 2 reshares, 47 +1s)
Sonnet 37: made lame by Fortune's dearest spite
20"×20", Oil on linen, January 2013
Listen to this sonnet in the #touchpress edition:
http://www.touchpress.com/titles/shakespeares-sonnets/37/As-a-decrepit-father-takes-delight/,
or just read it:
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance am sufficed
And by a part of all thy glory live.
Look what is best, that best I wish in ... more »
2013-05-08 23:28:24 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 31 +1s)
Today's work, the first stage for sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire
This sonnet forms a pair with the previous one, continuing the theme of four elements of which a human (as well as everything else) is supposed to be composed, earth, water, air and fire. So the painting, too, has a closer connection with the previous one (in the same album): I am also trying to explore the same motive, but in a different way.
I've taken a couple of considerable compositional risks with this one (not of them quite visible still), effectively splitting the painting into several overlapping areas. It remains to be seen how these risks work themselves out, but Shakespeare's bold play with presence/absence and habitual/actual tenses didn't leave me much choice here.
The sonnet, by the way, deals with the now quite fashionable theme of presence here and now and... more »
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