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Can (and should) life truly imitate Art?
At first glance I thought this exhibition was about something else entirely – bodies covered in tattoos (to which I am entirely approving). But now that I am well informed, I’ve got some things to say. Are photographs art? Sure, sometimes, certainly not all the time, just have a look at my memory card. But are they Art, capital A, meant to be scrutinised, reviewed, and studied for centuries to come? I’m not so sure. Painting is an expression of one’s mind, heart, and imagination. The colours we interpret, the way things make us feel, whatever happens to be going through our heads at a particular moment in time. Paintings…
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The Naked Truth
At first this topic had my mind atwitter; I mean how often does a girl get to write about naked men outside of her bedroom? Not that I believe there’s anything particularly aesthetically pleasing about the male physique below the happy/snail/treasure trail; maybe I’m a sucker for a nice bum, but that’s not what we’re here to discuss. Nor do I spend my private time writing about nude male bodies, and even if I did, you couldn’t prove it. Given the opportunity to pick famous men I wouldn’t mind seeing naked, I would say: Channing Tatum? Yes, please. Donald Glover? Abso-freaking-lutely. Joseph Gordon Levitt? Please and thank you. John Cho-know-I-would.…
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Modernisme européen versus modernisme mondial
La collection Sonderbund, créée par plusieurs galeries allemandes, rassemblait au début du xxe siècle 577 peintures des artistes de la scène moderne. Elle a exposé les artistes les plus novateurs, ce qui était inédit et osé en 1912. Le Wallraf-Richartz Museum a décidé de rassembler cette collection pour raviver l’esprit moderne du monde artistique de l’époque. Seule une centaine d’œuvres a pu être regroupée car certaines d’entre elles sont devenues inestimables et il est difficile de les déloger de leur lieu de conservation. Van Gogh côtoyait Munch, Cézanne et les membres expressionnistes allemands du Blaue Reiter. Pourrait-on aujourd’hui réaliser une exposition regroupant tous les artistes les plus avant-gardistes ? Certainement pas…
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Centennial Vortexes
You can blame it on my being an emotional woman if you’d like, I take full responsibility for that, but when I discovered the Wallraf-Richardtz-Museum’s intention to reunite some of the pieces from the 1912 Sonderbund Exhibition of Post-Impressionism through German Expressionism, featuring Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Munch, Picasso, Macke, Nolde, Schiele, Signac, etc., I got a bit teary-eyed. Pieces that have been separated (and sometimes out of view) will be reunited in Cologne until year’s end. It’s reminiscent of one’s days in University and coming back so many years later (clearly not 100) to see how much you’ve changed – or in the case of these paintings and sculptures,…
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