Two Paintings @ BMA

 

I love Oskar Schlemmer.

He was a performance artist,

and his 20s materialist decadence 

looks like our earliest machine ghosts.

This painting is kindof "stupid" in a

cherished ancient futurist way:

the gesso is cracking, it has a custom frame,

and the figure is in an over-ideal pose,

reflecting naivite of those B4 NAZI pogroms

 

Here's an early NYC dandy, to bring

us back to happy spider-man-land.

All images copyright BMA,

Baltimore Museum of Art.