Charles Burchfield was born in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1893, and raised in Salem, Ohio. In 1921 Burchfield got engaged and moved to Buffalo, where he was a wallpaper designer for H.M. Birge. Then he wanted to do painting full time so he moved to Gardenville, NY and raised his family there.
He painted a lot of watercolors, and they all had to do with the weather, which he documented everyday. You can tell by looking at his paintings; the time of day, weather, season, and everything that was going on. I loved Charles Burchfield's paintings. I thought they were so beautiful. It was neat to see all his notes and if you looked close at the paintings you could see little notes under the paint and the initial drawing.
First we saw Burchfield's earlier works, which were very good but when we went through the next room to see his later works, you could see how much he improved. There was more color and more detail and he would take older paintings and add to them, and even use his wallpaper techniques to add on paper to make them bigger.
When I look at Burchfield's paintings online I don't like them nearly as much as I did when I was there. They look so much better in person and the online photos do not do him justice.
Next we saw Jackie Felix's paintings, which I didn't like. You could tell by her paintings that she had a hard life. It seemed like she went through abuse by the weird dolls and all the sexual paintings. You could feel her anger by all the big crazy brush strokes. She used bright colors and her paintings were not easy to ignore. She does a good job of giving a message, although sometimes it's not clear to what exactly everything means. There is a lot of ways to interprupt it. Over all I would much rather look at Burchfield's paintings than Jackie's.
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