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SATAN, BEELZEBUB, LUZIFER – Der Teufel in der Kunst
Auf dieselbe Weise hat die Beschäftigung mit dem Teufel in der Literatur oftmals Künstler inspiriert, die den Teufel mithilfe von Bildern austreiben wollten; dazu gehören insbesondere die Werke von Dante Allighieri und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Im 19. Jahrhundert fühlte sich die Romantik zunächst von dem mysteriösen und ausdrucksvollen Gehalt des Themas angezogen und setzte die Verherrlichung der Böswilligkeit fort.
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Exploring Satan and…Art of the Devil
"The Devil holds the strings which move us!". Literature dealing with the Devil has long offered inspiration to artists wishing to exorcise evil through images, especially the works of Dante and Goethe.
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Tomber amoureux (Love – Version française)
Thème intemporel et on ne peut plus incontournable, l'amour ne cesse aujourd'hui encore de fasciner les artistes. Qu'il soit peintre, sculpteur ou architecte, l'artiste l'aborde, l'évoque, l'illustre, y puise son inspiration, comme tout un chacun s'y réfère chaque jour de sa vie. Jamais épuisé, toujours renouvelé, il porte les artistes vers les chefs-d'œuvre de leur vie.
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Be egg-cited about a new book
Easter is not just about such traditional games and customs. It is the celebration that has profound religious connection. On that day, nothing could make a better gift than a book. Choose some egg-cited books for your basket.
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Bone Chiller: “Between Two Mysteries” exhibition from the inside out
Sticks and stones break bones, but impressions and perceptions can surely work you over like a prisoner dropping the soap. What is reality but a messed up puzzle of colour and form that we imbue with our own individual meaning? Our world is the combination of mental and physical, and with each person infinitely different, there are endless possibilities for reality. The current exhibition, Between Two Mysteries, at Galerie Quynh in Saigon, leaps headfirst into the idea of our perceptions of the world and juxtaposes two seemingly disparate collections, Ink Kingdom by Truc-Anh and Lightning in U Minh Forest by Hoang Duong Cam, to slap the viewer in the face…
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Botticelli Reimagined review – Venus in the gutter, more beautiful than ever
Victoria & Albert Museum, London By submerging Botticelli and his Venus in the trashy pool of pop and tourist culture they have inspired, this landmark show elevates them both A dolce and Gabbana dress covered with prints of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, a clip of Uma Thurman emerging from a shell in The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, graffiti art, Bulgari, a golden Italian racing car wheel that quotes a Botticelli brooch. I have wandered into some wonderland suspended between beauty and kitsch, where the Renaissance has morphed into trashy pop culture. One version of The Birth of Venus, by Vik Muniz, is literally made of trash, an assemblage of junk…
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Botticelli’s Primavera: The Enigma of a Masterpiece
Primavera is one of Botticelli’s most outstanding works. But when trying to explain the enigma of the scene, the interpretations become astoundingly foggy. It is this very confusion that leaves us at complete liberty to interpret it ourselves, if very vaguely, which perhaps suits Botticelli’s mysterious masterpiece better than anything else. We see a sacred lemon forest, a dark cluster of trees laden with golden fruits, pierced by the whiteness of a pale sky. Eight figures rise at the forest’s edge, on a multicoloured flowery meadow. They seem more like fleeting visions of a dream than actual people. These eight figures are set up in five different scenes and it…
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Great Minds Think Alike
This sentiment couldn’t be truer for Sydney’s International Art Series. With the likes of El Greco, Leonardo, Raphael, Monet (and many more!) being featured in The Greats: masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland, we can’t even imagine the kind of strings that the Art Gallery of New South Wales had to pull to get the National Galleries of Scotland to share their treasures. Over 400 years of artistic production under one roof, but who’s intimidated? According to the NSW’s official website, the collection will comprise of “over 70 outstanding works, all but two will be seen in Australia for the first time, including Botticelli’s exceptional The Virgin adoring the sleeping…
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Botticellis Venus – Die Schönheit des Makels
Es gibt Dinge, die man, hat man sie erst einmal bemerkt, nie wieder aus dem Kopf bekommt. Plötzlich schaut man auf das gleiche Gemälde, das man schon seit Jahren und Jahrzehnten kennt, und es ist nicht mehr dasselbe. Sandro Botticellis Gemälde werden oft zitiert, wenn es um die ‚bellezza ideale‘ geht. Dabei ist der florentinische Künstler in Sachen Anatomie nachweislich ein regelrechter Stümper gewesen. Die Proportionen vieler seiner Figuren sind falsch und verzerrt, die Haltungen unnatürlich bis anatomisch unmöglich. Auch seine Venus, personifizierter Zauber des Weiblichen, ist reichlich missgebildet. Sieht man sich den zu langen, krummen Hals, die verrenkte und etwas zu kleine Kopfpartie oder auch die Schultern an, wird…
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Lecciones de la historia
Las cosas en la historia del arte no siempre se aprecian de la misma manera. La exposición recién inaugurada en la National Gallery de Londres, Strange Beauty. Masters of the German Renaissance, es buena prueba de ello. El aficionado de hoy no dudaría, al margen de sus preferencias particulares, en situar a Durero y Cranach a la altura de los grandes artistas italianos de la misma época, pero esto no siempre fue así. En 1854 la National Gallery de Londres adquirió 64 obras alemanas de los siglos XV y XVI, pero al cabo de sólo dos años 37 de esas piezas fueron desterradas de su colección. Por inverosímil que parezca,…
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