Sam Francis

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Mirrored from Madam Nakamura-Branchevska.

Today, from an incredibly thoughtful gift of Younger Kid (very smooth genmaicha from LACMA) I learned about Sam Francis (there is at least one of his works at SF MOMA but apparently not the one targeted towards me 😉 ). He’s an abstract expressionist, like Pollock, but while Pollock’s paintings feel like they would beat one up if they only could Francis’ ones seem joyful. The emotional lift is similar to what I get from Junko Funada and Ellsworth Kelly.

Good thing I just recently decided to do a museum nook, so I’ll have somewhere to put a reminder to myself.