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Wassily Kandinsky: Blue Rider
Kandinsky’s art does not reflect and is not burdened by the fate of other Russian avant-garde masters. He left Russia well before the semi-official Soviet aesthetic turned its back on modernist art. He had been to Paris and Italy, even giving Impressionism its due in his earliest works. However, it was only in Germany that he aspired to study. It is obvious that in his preference for Munich over Paris, Kandinsky had been thinking more about schools than about artistic milieu. The qualities of salon Impressionism, a hint of the dry rhythms of modernism (Jugendstil), a heavy “demiurgic stroke” reminiscent of Cézanne, the occasionally significant echoes of Symbolism and much…
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Exhibition: Magritte, Broodthaers & Contemporary Art
“Magritte’s work constitutes a crucial reference for any artist who intends to reflect on the very production of an image, on the representation or transposition of something real as a likeness. This exhibition will bring together artists who, since the 1980s, have productively entered into dialogue with Magritte’s ‘vache’ period. From George Condo to Gavin Turk, from Sean Landers to David Altmejd”. Date: October, 13 2017 – February 18, 2018 Location: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Source: https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/en/exhibitions/magritte-contemporary-art
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Exhibition: “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”
Gauguin is one of the most important painters in the 19th century in Paris. He is mostly known for his painting of Tahitian women. In October, there will be an exhibition which dedicates solely to his remarkable career and works. The exhibition “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist” showcases some 240 works including paintings, ceramics, sculptures, engravings and drawings. It begins with Gauguin’s early struggles with Impressionism, then his time in Brittany and Martinique, to his adventure in Tahiti and subsequent return to Paris. This retrospective concludes with his homecoming to Tahiti and his final years on the Marquesas Islands. The exhibition is held in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago…
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Exhibition: Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread is a leading artist in Britain who won the Turner Prize in 1993. She uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space. Her evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental. Date: 12 September 2017 – 21 January 2018 Venue: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG Photo: Rachel Whiteread, Chicken Shed 2017. Source: http://www.tate.org.uk
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BOOK: HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
BOOK: Painter of Parisian life at the end of the 19th century, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was an artist whose oeuvre stands apart from those of his contemporaries. Oscillating between Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, he loved to paint dancers and singers at work in the cabarets of the capital. His touch is vigorous, his colours pure. Despite his personal handicap, his numerous works and posters are full of turbulent, incessant movement and figures such as the famous Goulue or Valentin le Désossé. Without doubt too entangled in this Parisian bohemia, he died of syphilis and chronic alcoholism at the age of only thirty-seven, leaving behind a substantial body of work. SPECIFICATIONS…
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Exhibition: Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams
The exhibition “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams” has been held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the House of Dior. It features many works of art – which have influenced Christian Dior’s couturier state of mind – together with the 400 selected dresses (from the House of Dior origins to the most recent creations). Time & Date: From 5 July 2017 to 7 January 2018 Tuesdays to Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Open until 9 p.m. on Thursdays Location: Musée des Arts Décoratifs
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埃德加•德加：烈马、芭蕾舞者和人体艺术
在印象派的圈子中，德加是与雷诺阿风格最接近的一位，他们都热爱将生动的巴黎生活作为绘画的主题。德加没有参加过格莱尔（Gleyre）的工作室，很有可能他与未来的印象主义者的第一次会面是在Guerbois咖啡店。埃德加·德加（Edgar Degas）来自于与莫奈、雷诺阿和西斯利完全不同的环境中。法国大革命期间，他的祖父René-Hilaire de Gas在1793年被迫从法国逃到了意大利。他的祖父是一名粮食商人，在意大利手收获了商业的繁荣。 德加的祖父在那不勒斯创建了一家银行，与热那亚的富裕家庭的一个女孩成婚。埃德加·德加喜欢简单地将名字写成德加，尽管他与意大利的众多亲戚维持着愉快的关系。他在1853年在Louis-Ernest Barrias工作室开始了学徒生活，从1854年开始，在路易斯·拉莫特（Louis Lamothe）的指导下学习。拉莫特非常崇拜Ingres，远远超过了其他画家。他将这种敬佩之情传染给了德加。从1854年开始，德加开始频繁地前往意大利：首先到达那不勒斯，认识了好多表兄弟；然后到了罗马和佛罗伦萨，从古典大师那里不懈地临摹和学习。 在19世纪六七十年代，德加成为了一名专注于绘画参赛者、马匹和骑师的画家。不管在哪里观看比赛，他美妙的画家记忆为我们保留了赛马运动的独特性。在他第一幅相当复杂的赛马场作品完成后，德加学会了如果表达赛马的高贵和优雅姿态，以及它们紧张的运动和肌肉的优美弧度。大约在19世纪六十年代中。德加有了另一项新的发现。1866年，他以芭蕾舞作为主题，创作了《芭蕾舞剧〈源泉〉里的菲尔珂小姐》（纽约，布鲁克林博物馆）。 在此之前，德加一直专注于歌剧院，但是从现在开始他愈来愈专注于自己的艺术。德加的第一幅有关芭蕾的作品是《巴黎歌剧院设在佩勒提宫的舞蹈教室》（奥赛博物馆，巴黎）。在精心构建的作品中，人物之间彼此左右平衡，每一个芭蕾舞者都在自己跳舞，每人姿态各异。大量的观察和草图是成就如此作品的关键。这就是为什么德加从歌剧院转移到了排练厅，因为排练厅中的芭蕾舞者在练习和商科。芭蕾是他的激情，一直延续到他生命的终点。 德加，《舞台上的排练》，奥赛博物馆，巴黎。 随着年龄的增长，德加创作了越来越多的雕塑作品。“随着我的目光所及”，他告诉商人Vollard说，“现在我必须要从事盲人的工作。”他用蜡创作了他最擅长的形象：芭蕾舞者、马匹和裸体。 在之后的几年中，德加几乎已经完全失明了。1917年9月27日，德加去世。在陪同他到蒙马特公墓的朋友当中，只有一位印象主义者：莫奈。比他活得更长的朋友，诸如雷诺阿，在扶手椅上去世的。在第一次世界大战期间，画家的死亡似乎微不足道。 更多阅读，欢迎点击：亚马逊，当当，京东。
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Blues in the soul…
The self-appointed “leader” of the artists’ group Die Brücke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism. His first works show the influence of Impressionism, Post-impressionism and Jugendstil, but by about 1909, Kirchner was painting in a distinctive, expressive manner with bold, loose brushwork, vibrant and nonnaturalistic colours and heightened gestures. He worked in the studio from sketches made very rapidly from life, often from moving figures, from scenes of life out in the city or from the Die Brücke group’s trips to the countryside. A little later he began making roughly hewn sculptures from single blocks of wood.…
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Picasso – Lautrec exhibition
The Picasso – Lautrec pictorial exhibition, presented by The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, highlights the affinities between Picasso’s early works and that of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Visitors will have a chance to appreciate 100 works organized around the themes such as: Caricatural portraits; night life at cafés, cabarets and theaters; the crude reality of marginal individuals; the spectacle of the circus; and the erotic universe of the city’s brothels. Curators: Francisco Calvo Serraller y Paloma Alarcó Time & Date: Oct 17, 2017 – Jan 21, 2018 Venue: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Paseo del Prado, 8, 28014 Madrid, Spain. Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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Russen exhibition
Exhibition: Russen Kunstmuseum Basel St. Alban-Graben 16 4051 Basel Switzerland From: September 5, 2017 to March 4, 2018 Complimenting an exhibition by Marc Chagall, ‘Russen’ shows masterpieces by artists with ties to Russia. Source: artnet.com Keywords: Kandinsky , Repine , Serov , Chichkine , Soutine , Chagall , Shishkin
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