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    Michelangelo – Die Qual und Ekstase eines Genies

    August 11, 2020 / 0 Comments

    Der untenstehende Text ist ein Auszug aus dem Buch Michelangelo von Eugène Müntz , herausgegeben von Parkstone International. Michelangelo verkörpert mit seiner universellen Begabung den typischen Renaissancemenschen und überragt alle anderen Künstler des Cinquecento. Er wurde in eine Zeit hineingeboren, die es seinem Genie erlaubte, sich ungehemmt zu entfalten. Dennoch dürfen wir seine Vorgänger nicht vergessen, die ihm in vielerlei Hinsicht den Weg geebnet haben. Von eher düsterem Charakter und mit einem Hang zum Einzelgängertum widmete er all seine Energien seiner Kunst. Er war ein sehr frommer und spirituellen Dingen zugeneigter Mann, dessen geistige Haltung von Savonarola beeinflusst war. Das Jüngste Gericht zeigt die Qualen des Künstlers an seinem Lebensabend. Seine zahlreichen Darstellungen nackter…

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    Der Tod in der Kunst: Symbolik, Mythologie und kulturelle Riten

    October 31, 2024

    Frau Antje lädt zum Kunstgenuss

    June 18, 2013
    Gucci-Jumper-in-Racial-Slur-6

    Shelleys Kunstskandal – Gucci Pullover in Rassendiskriminierung

    October 31, 2019
  • Salvador Dalí, Die Madonna von Port Lligat, 1949. Öl auf Leinwand, 143,9 x 95,8 cm. Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee.
    Art,  Art and Design,  Artist,  Deutsch

    Dalí, der Göttliche

    October 13, 2014 / 1 Comment

    „Ich glaube an Gott, aber ich habe keinen Glauben“, so ambivalent dieser Satz erscheinen mag, so treffend past er doch zu Salvador Dalís Einstellung gegenüber dem Allmächtigen und Religion. Durch seine Kindheit geprägt – die Familie seiner Mutter war zutiefst vom katholischen Glauben überzeugt, während sein Vater atheistisch erzogen worden war – sollte sich der Surrealist sein Leben lang mit dem Thema Glaube / Nichtglaube auseinandersetzen. In seiner Jugend und seinen frühen Jahren als Künstler eiferte er dem Vater nach, verachtete Reglion, und seine Bilder beinhalten durchaus blasphemische Ansätze, die Empörung und scharfe Kritik hervorriefen. Jedoch in den 1940er Jahren, als um die 40-jähriger, etablierter Künstler, kehrte er zum Katholizismus…

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    L'Art de la Chine

    Les murs inspirent, les toits aspirent, l’art chinois ne se lassera jamais

    September 12, 2025
    August Macke

    Une symphonie de couleurs : La lumière sur l’éclat artistique d’August Macke

    January 5, 2024

    Keep It Simple, Stupid

    July 8, 2013
  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  English

    No Room in Hollywood

    October 22, 2013 / 0 Comments

    There is no doubt that Hollywood dominates the global film industry. Occasionally, popular films from other countries gain international notoriety like the French film Amélie or the Swedish film Let the Right One In, but those are rare instances. While the United States dominates the film industry, the rest of the world, mainly Europe, dominates in art. The U.S. does have renowned artists but not as renowned as Europe.  Even as an American, I find it difficult to name fellow artistic countrymen, but I can easily rattle off several European artists. Edward Hopper, painter of the Nighthawks, is a celebrated American painter, but his international repute is an iota of…

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    Die Entwicklung von Dracula: Vom Gothic Horror zum modernen Vampir

    October 10, 2024
    Icônes

    Échos de la foi dans les icônes du XVIe siècle

    April 24, 2026
    Vincent van Gogh, Le PèreTanguy, 1887. Öl auf Leinwand, 92 x 75 cm. Musée Rodin, Paris.

    Faszination eines Berges

    September 17, 2014
  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  English

    Why We Owe Spain a Big “Gracias”

    May 28, 2013 / 2 Comments

    This is how I started my office questionnaire (I take my research for these blogs very seriously): “What has Spain given the world….go:” These were the answers I received (and yes, some of the responders are Spanish): Helicopters “America”  “Hot men” Tortilla

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    Luca Giordano, The Marriage of the Virgin, c. 1688

    The Virgin Mary from Early Medieval to Early Modern Art

    December 13, 2022
    Shah Jahan, The Taj Mahal, 1638-1648. White marble, jasper, jade, crystal, turquoise, lapis lazuli, sapphire, carnelian, etc. Agra, Uttar Pradesh.

    Art of India

    September 1, 2014
    Die abendliche Frische am Ufer des Sumida (Okawa-bata yuryo), c. 1795-1796

    Utamaro – Bilder der die schwebenden Welt

    February 2, 2023
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Mastering Monochrome

    April 2, 2013 / 0 Comments

    The saying goes that “it” (the world/life/politics/beliefs/love and so on and so forth) is not black and white. But what if it was? Surely life would be a lot easier. Rules and expectations would be clear-cut and to the point. If the choice of colour was not an option, all decisions would be a lot easier, right? If we look at old films, photographs, TV, and documentaries which were shot in black and white, we hark back to what appears to be a graceful and elegant world. Simple, classy, well-organised and put together: even the music that accompanies the films/TV shows/documentaries evokes a simpler and more innocent time. I know…

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    Gallé: La fragilité du temps

    January 31, 2018

    Instantanés de l’Amérique.

    December 2, 2013
    Léon Tolstoï Labourant, 1887

    Ilya Répine – L’artiste talentueux du groupe connu sous le nom de « The Itinerants »

    December 17, 2021
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Diamonds in the Rough

    February 8, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Arabian nights, like Arabian days, more often than not are hotter than hot in a lot of good ways. The Arab culture has gone from gross underrepresentation in television, art, and film to an intense misrepresentation over the past twenty years or so. While film directors and screen writers are helping the media plague the minds of the public about the Middle East, it’s far less often that I experience outward hatefulness from the group of people whom are relentlessly demonised as threatening, violent, and dangerous. Children are brought up with quirky yet adorable “street-rat” Aladdin, who steals to eat and falls in love well outside of his league. We’re…

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    Rodin at the Met: A Kéz Hatalmát

    November 8, 2017
    Edward-Burne-Jones-exhibition

    Edward Burne-Jones

    September 21, 2018

    Gay Art

    April 4, 2019
  • Art Exhibition,  Artist,  Français

    Contre le bien-pensant…

    May 21, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Villon, Pasolini, Courier ou Le Caravage… Un poète francais du Moyen Âge, un cinéaste italien des années 60 / 70, un écrivain français à cheval entre xixe et xxe siècle et un peintre italien du xvie siècle… Cherchez les points communs ! A priori pas grand chose, et pourtant… : Villon Pape des artistes maudits, assassin à ses heures et poète-bagarreur, Pasolini filmant la chair avec délices et tué sur une plage, Courier le séducteur-soldat, brillant helléniste et assassin assassiné et enfin Le Caravage, enfant-maudit de l’Histoire de l’art, mort d’épuisement et peintre de la chair et du désir… Vous l’aurez compris, la subversion est ici le maître-mot. Ceux qui pensaient que…

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    马格利特、布达埃尔及当代艺术

    October 5, 2017

    日本武士刀

    October 25, 2017
    Portrait Girl with a Pearl Earring

    1000 Porträts

    June 29, 2018
  • Artist,  English

    Caravaggio and Pasolini: Kindred Spirits

    May 10, 2012 / 1 Comment

    Significant troublemakers of their time, Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is frequently likened to Italian painter Caravaggio, both personally and professionally. Why and how are the artists so similar? Caravaggio’s fine art is accredited with the invention of cinematic lighting – the dramatic contrast of dark and light, the minute detail of the human figure and the intimate reveal of every quirk and blemish feature in all of his pieces.  His work is surely the closest we can get to looking at a photograph of the 16th century. Pasolini, equally misunderstood in his lifetime because of his extreme political views, produced some of the most shocking films of the…

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    Byzanz – Konstantinopel – Istanbul

    January 8, 2014
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    MERCI ET AU REVOIR, KARL LAGERFELD

    March 8, 2019
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    Shelley’s Gedankengänge über Kunst: Anselm Kiefer im Rampenlicht

    September 25, 2019
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