#WhenArtIsAMood

#WhenArtIsAMood Let’s approach abstract art in a different way! Here's performer Yenny Kravets interpreting the painting "All together" (1995) by Shirley Jaffe. The two panels of the work are rich in contrast and dealing with forcing opposing things to fit together, as in a city where buildings from different periods clash.
For this series we’ve invited performers and dancers to interpret the mood of the abstract artworks by Shirley Jaffe through movement. We want to try out this associative approach for looking at art with you since sometimes it’s difficult to approach abstract art.
Please freely associate your mood and leave your thoughts in the comments.
Born in New Jersey in 1923 as Shirley Sternstein, in 1949, the artist, now Mrs Jaffe, moved to Paris. Jaffe drew inspiration from the European abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky and of Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Over the course of her stay in Berlin, her colour fields acquired more monochromatic and geometric forms; like Lego pieces or brightly coloured paper snippets, they dance here and there, fluttering through the abstract-expressive passages of her canvases.
👀 SHIRLEY JAFFE. FORM AS EXPERIMENT until July 30.
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Credits: Shirley Jaffe, All together, 1995, Centre Pompidou @centrepompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris © Pro-Litteris, Zürich
Video: Ana Brankovic
Music: Joaquín Cornejo, Wabi Saabi - Soul in my bones