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William Morris: A Pattern is either right or wrong…It is no stronger than its weakest point
Exhibition: William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement in Great Britain Date: February 22 – May 20, 2018 Venue: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya | Barcelona Spain From the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, we have passed through a period of aesthetic discontent which continues and which is distinct from the many kinds of discontent by which men have been troubled in former ages. No doubt aesthetic discontent has existed before; men have often complained that the art of their own time was inferior to the art of the past; but they have never before been so conscious of this inferiority or…
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Die Präraffaeliten: Die revolutionäre Bruderschaft: Rückkehr ins Mittelalter
Ausstellung: Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites Datum: Bis 2. April 2018 Museum: National Gallery London Chaucer am Hof Edwards III. Ford Madox Brown, 1847-1851 Öl auf Leinwand, 372 x 296 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney DIE ENGLISCHE KUNST IM JAHRE 1844 Bis 1848 rief die Kunst in England Bewunderung hervor, aber sie provozierte kein Erstaunen. Joshua Reynolds und Thomas Gainsborough waren große Meister, aber sie schufen Malerei des 18. Jahrhunderts und keine typisch englische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ihre Modelle waren es, die Ladies und Misses, die ihren Gestalten ein englisches Flair gaben und nicht ihr Pinselstrich. Ihre Ästhetik war die des gesamten Europas zu…
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Pre-Raphaelites: The Revolutionary Brotherhood: Return to the Middle Age
Exhibition: Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites Date: Until April 2, 2018 Venue: National Gallery London English Art in 1844 Until 1848, one could admire art in England, but would not be surprised by it. Reynolds and Gainsborough were great masters, but they were 18th-century painters rather than 18th-century English painters. It was their models, their ladies and young girls, rather than their brushwork, which gave an English character to their creations. Their aesthetic was similar to that of the rest of Europe at that time. Walking through the halls of London museums, one could see different paintings, but no difference in manner of the painting and drawing, or even in…
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Toulouse-Lautrec and the French can-can
Exhibition: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Pleasures of the Belle Époque Date: February, 8 – May, 6 , 2018 Venue: Canal de Isabel II Foundation , Madrid. Frustrated and unsuccessful, an artist laments in an illustration in the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus issued in 1910: “You know, if one were a Frenchman, or dead, or a pervert – best of all, a dead French pervert – it might be possible to enjoy life!”. He is endeavouring to paint while his domestic life crowds in on him from every direction:children run about screaming, toys lie scattered on the floor, and his wife is hanging up washing on a line stretched across his studio. The…
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Degas: Light as a Tutu of a Ballet Student of the Paris Opers
Exhibition: The Art of Pastel From Degas to Redon Date: 15 September 2017 – 8 April 2018 Venue: Le Petit Palais Edgar Degas was closest to Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the Impressionist’s circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings. Degas did not attend Charles Gleyre’s studio; most likely he first met the future Impressionists at the Café Guerbois. It is not known exactly where he met Édouard Manet. Perhaps they were introduced to one another by a mutual friend, the engraver Félix Bracquemond, or perhaps Manet, struck by Degas’ audacity, first spoke to him at the Louvre in 1862. Two months…
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Rubens: Der geistliche Vater von Botero
Ausstellung: “Rubens. The Power of Transformation” Datum: Feb 8 − May 28, 2018 Museum: Stadel Museum Helene Fourment, Im Brautkleid, um 1630. Alte Pinakothek , Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München. Peter Paul Rubens, der große flämische Künstler des 17. Jahrhunderts, ist weltberühmt und die Bedeutung, die seinem Schaffen in der Entwicklung der europäischen Kultur zukommt, ist allgemein anerkannt. Herkules und Omphale, um 1606. Musée du Louvre , Paris. Die Erkenntnis, dass das 17. Jahrhundert für Rubens, verglichen mit der nachfolgenden Zeit, ein geringeres Interesse aufbrachte, mag uns heute befremden. Denn die Zeitgenossen rühmten ihn ja als den ıApelles des Jahrhunderts„. Doch in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Tode des Künstlers im Jahr…
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Rubens: El Padre Spiritual de Botero
Exposición: “Rubens. The Power of Transformation” Fecha: 8 de Febrero – 28 de Mayo de 2018 Museo: Museo Stadel Venus y Adonis, c. 1610. Museum Kunstpalast , Dusseldorf El nombre de Pedro Pablo Rubens es conocido en el mundo entero y la importancia de su obra en la evolución de la cultura europea es universalmente reconocida. Sin embargo, en el siglo XVII Rubens no gozaba del renombre que alcanzaría más adelante, lo que puede parecer extraño si se tiene en cuenta que algunos de sus contemporáneos ya lo celebraban como ÿel Apeles de nuestro tiempo». No obstante, en los años que siguieron a su muerte en 1640, la notoriedad que había alcanzado…
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Gallé: La fragilité du temps
Exposition : The Japonism of Emile Gallé Date : 3 April 2017 – 31 March 2018 Lieu : Kitazawa Museum of Art À la fin du XIXe siècle, l’Europe occidentale voit la naissance d’une grande vague de renouveau dans le domaine des arts décoratifs. Celle-ci a pour principal modèle la Nature. En effet, des ouvrages scientifiques décisifs paraissent dans les années 1860 (Haeckel, Dresser, Blossfeldt…) qui fournissent un répertoire de formes nouvelles et entraînent les arts dans un élan vers la modernité. Horloge, vers 1880. Faïence, décor sur émail stannifère, éclats jaunes, hauteur : 41,6 cm ; largeur : 35 cm ; profondeur : 11,8 cm. Musée de l’École de Nancy,…
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Grand exhibitions from February to May 2018
Edvard Munch, entre l’horloge et le lit (FRA) Date: November, 15, 2017 – February, 4, 2018 Venue: Museum of Modern Art, New York Alphonse Mucha: A Painter and Artist Date: 12 October 2017 – 25 February 2018 Venue: Palacio de Gaviria , Madrid Van Gogh to Cézanne, Bonnard to Matisse. The Collection Hahnloser Date: August 11, 2017 – March 11, 2018 Venue: Kunstmuseum Bern Rodin – Rilke – Hofmannsthal. Man and His Genius Date: November 17, 2017 – March 18, 2018 Venue: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin The Japonism of Emile Gallé Date: 3 April 2017 – 31 March 2018 Venue: Kitazawa Museum of Art The Art of Pastel From Degas…
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Rodin – Rilke – Hofmannsthal. L’homme et son génie
Exposition: Rodin – Rilke – Hofmannsthal. Man and His Genius Date: Nov 17, 2017 − Mar 18, 2018 Lieu: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin « Les écrivains s’expriment par des mots… mais les sculpteurs par des actes. » — Pomponius Gauricus, De Sculptura (vers 1504). « Le héros est celui qui reste inébranlablement centré. » — Ralph Waldo Emerson Rodin était solitaire avant sa gloire. Et la gloire qui vint, le rendit peut-être encore plus solitaire. Car la gloire n’est finalement que la somme de tous les malentendus qui se forment autour d’un nom nouveau. Il y en a beaucoup autour de Rodin, et ce serait une longue et pénible tâche…
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