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  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  English

    Degas: The Impressionist that Wasn’t

    August 15, 2013 / 1 Comment

    When is an Impressionist not an Impressionist? Answer: when that Impressionist is Edgar Degas. Degas is considered to be one of the key participants in the Impressionist movement; however, he took objection to this and tried to distance himself as much as possible from being characterised in this manner. Whilst his contemporaries delighted in spontaneity, bright colours, and the effect of light, Degas maintained that his art was completely devoid of spontaneity. The study of the old masters and an interest in realism and composition, this is what shaped the artist’s work and style. This evolution in personal style and approach to art is reflected in the change in genre…

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    与凯绥·珂勒惠支对话:Wieland Förster

    October 26, 2017
    Lacquered panel and gold leaf, 1930

    1000 Masterpieces of Decorative Art: Where Beauty Meets Craftsmanship

    July 25, 2023
    Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun

    Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun – a Pioneering Woman Painter in the 18th Century

    March 26, 2024
  • Art Exhibition,  Deutsch

    Auf Teufel komm raus – Symbolismus im Land der tausend Seen

    April 11, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Der personifizierte Tod, Teufel und Dämonen: Was für Italien die Renaissance und für die Niederlande das Barock war, ist für Finnland der Symbolismus. Zwei blasse, dunkel gekleidete Buben tragen einen verwundeten Engel auf einer Bahre davon, einer der jungen Träger wirft dem Betrachter einen strengen Blick zu. Der verwundete Engel (1903) von Hugo Simberg (1873-1917) gehört nicht nur zu den bekanntesten Gemälden Simbergs, sondern gilt auch als das Hauptwerk des finnischen Symbolismus, das 2006 von den Besuchern des Ateneums in Helsinki zum „Nationalen Gemälde“ Finnlands gewählt wurde.     Im Garten des Todes (1896) kümmern sich drei in schwarze Umhänge gehüllte Skelette um die verschiedenen Pflanzen des Hochbeetgartens; während einer…

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    Paul Klee: Swiss? or German?

    August 29, 2017
    Industrie von Detroit (Südwand) – Die weiße und die gelbe Rasse und geologische Schichten, 1932-1933

    Von Wandmalereien zu Meisterwerken: Das Vermächtnis von Diego Rivera

    April 27, 2023

    Lucio Fontana : Ouvrez-moi donc cette toile

    March 28, 2014
  • Art Exhibition,  Español

    Anarsequetrodovirpo —mnemotecnia del simbolismo

    March 25, 2013 / 0 Comments

    «Porque lo bello no es sino el comienzo de lo terrible, ése que todavía podemos soportar» Elegías de Duino, Rainer Maria Rilke El simbolismo no fue un movimiento artístico como tal. Se desarrolló a partir de la literatura francesa y, posteriormente, de las belga y rusa y se define como un medio para conceptualizar verdades e ideas atemporales, para reproducir los efectos que escenas del mundo real produjeron en los artistas que las pintaron, en los poetas que las pusieron en verso. Situadas en su contexto histórico, a finales del siglo XIX, las obras simbolistas reflejan vidas de tensión, horrores y barbarie. La muerte es un tema recurrente, como también…

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    Caravaggio-Die-Wahrsagerin

    Caravaggio

    December 3, 2018

    Vampires: dark and evil or sparkly and romantic?

    May 14, 2013

    Van Gogh en 2.0

    February 18, 2014
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Oh, If I Were a Symbolist

    March 19, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Symbolism: What is it when it’s at home? What was the point that the artists were trying to achieve? And how should it be interpreted? Let’s start with the what. This was a technique brought into vogue by the young painters of the late 19th Century, stemming from French literature (and later, Russian and Belgian); this is where many of the Symbolists gathered inspiration from. The aim was to portray the idea of a subject, to give the suggestion of the true meaning only; poetry in art. They accomplished this by using line, colour, and composition (other elements include tone, texture, space, and shape) in their work, and adapted the…

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    Caravaggio-Die-Wahrsagerin

    Caravaggio

    December 3, 2018

    Rubens: The Spiritual Father of Botero

    January 10, 2018
    Eugene-Delacroix -4

    Eugène Delacroix

    June 15, 2018
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Join the Club

    February 5, 2013 / 0 Comments

    If I were to ask you what Camille Pissarro, Dermot Morgan (Ted), Abraham, Christmas, William, Steve Martin, God, Time, and Marlon Brando have in common, would you be able to come up with the solution? I’ll give you a couple of seconds… Father! They have all been referred to as “Father”. Many people (especially the British amongst us) will have heard of, and spent many an evening laughing at, Father Ted. Fathers Christmas and Time are personifications, both of whom appear in the Chronicles of Narnia interestingly enough. Father William is the hero of Lewis Carol’s satirical poem in Alice in Wonderland, and Father Abraham and God the Father are…

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    Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics

    October 25, 2017

    Toulouse-Lautrec et le Can-Can français

    February 27, 2018
    John Everett Millais, Ophélie, 1851-1852.

    Les femmes froides des Préraphaélites

    August 29, 2014
  • Art Exhibition,  Español

    El doloroso arte del retrato

    January 31, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Escoge una postura. Practícala hasta que te salga natural. Ahora quédate así durante horas. Este era el proceso del retrato hasta que se inventó la fotografía (gracias, Niépce y Daguerre) y, sinceramente, no sé cómo la gente se prestaba a ello. Más sorprendente aún, ¡repetían! Cierto es que solían ser personajes «importantes» henchidos de ego que pensaban que la humanidad entera quedaría agradecida por tener su retrato (en fin) o bien familiares y amigos del artista (muy buenos amigos, supongo). Espero que al terminar el artista les invitara a un masaje (pasa unas horas como la pintura de abajo y tienes sesión de fisio asegurada). Si bien es cierto que…

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    Die letzte Tür

    June 6, 2013

    Degas: The Impressionist that Wasn’t

    August 15, 2013

    Do not judge a building by its façade.

    June 25, 2013
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Don’t just do something – sit there.

    January 24, 2013 / 0 Comments

    In theory yoga is this beautiful, wonderful, spiritual experience that is meant to cleanse mind, body, and soul. In practice yoga causes a slew of frowned upon words to come flying out of my mouth at record speeds. It is a deep, dark torture which we, as masochists, inflict upon ourselves day after day of shaking cores, trembling arms, and ready-to-collapse legs. We stretch ourselves in ways we never thought possible, only to discover they are possible, but will we be stuck this way forever? The idea of sitting still long enough to have my portrait painted makes my muscles ache in a way that I’ve only known through Downward-Facing…

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    Der Ozean, 1865

    James McNeill Whistler – Geboren unter einem wandernden Stern

    February 17, 2022

    Learning from Africa

    July 3, 2013

    Punk de pasarela

    August 22, 2013
  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  Español

    Impresionismo y la moda

    October 23, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Ahora que están tan de moda los blogs de estilismo y las egobloggers son las nuevas estrellas de la red, no está de más recordar que ellas no son las primeras ni las últimas en interesarse por la moda ni retratar el estilismo contemporáneo. Haciendo un trabajo a medio camino entre los paparazzis y los cazadores de tendencias, los impresionistas, en su afán por retratar la vida urbana de la época, se convirtieron en pintores de la moda (que no de moda, la mayoría del público los denostaba). Desde los bailes de Renoir a las noches de ópera de Mary Cassat, podemos encontrar en sus cuadros a la gente «in»…

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    LECTURE EN AFRIQUE

    October 10, 2019
    Die kunst Persiens

    Der geheime Schatz Persiens: Verlorene Pracht, heute wiederentdeckt

    August 21, 2025
    Albert Marquet & Fauvism

    Fauvism is not a Ferocious Beast: Understanding Albert Marquet and the Fauves

    September 17, 2024
  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  Deutsch

    La Belle Époque – Eine Hommage auf die Freizeit

    October 20, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Ein gemeinsames Frühstück im Grünen, danach ein Ausritt oder vielleicht eine Kutschfahrt? Zum Mittagessen in eines der schönen Restaurants am Grand Boulevard, dann ein ausgedehnter Schaufensterbummel, ein kurzer Plausch im Café und abends vielleicht ins Theater, in die Oper oder doch lieber zum Ballett? Eine der großen Neuerungen, die die zweite Welle der Industriellen Revolution in Frankreich mit sich brachte, war die „Freizeit“. Die materielle und politische Absicherung des Bürgertums in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ließ die Menschen der sogenannten Belle Époque optimistisch in die Zukunft blicken. Mit dem Wirtschaftsaufschwung ging auch ein kultureller Aufschwung einher: Neue Cafés, Ateliers, Galerien, Salons und Konzertsäle mit einem vielfältigen kulturellen Freizeitangebot…

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    Nicholas Roerich

    Nicholas Roerich: Vom Himalaya auf die Leinwand

    October 16, 2025
    Islam

    Arts décoratifs islamiques : L’orfèvrerie, les cristaux de roche et la mosaïque

    July 10, 2026
    Die Halle der Höchsten Harmonie, 1406

    Ein vollständiges Panorama der historischen chinesische Kunst und Zivilisation

    February 3, 2022
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Impressionably Fashionable

    October 19, 2012 / 2 Comments

    Where do you go when you are looking for the latest fashion designs? Or want to see what is à la mode on the High Street? Or perhaps, just want to see what’s going on in the city? Well, the internet.  Right?  Or a fashion magazine.      I think that if we were to be suddenly transported to the 19th Century we would be in for a big culture shock! No internet, no modern conveniences…and yet, society of the 19th Century, in some respects, is considered to be more cultured and sophisticated than our own.  More genteel, certainly!  Impressionists such as Renoir, Cassatt, and Monet: these were the people…

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    Bienal de Curitiba

    September 29, 2017

    Do not judge a building by its façade.

    June 25, 2013

    Ruskin – Modigliani: The Scandal of the Pubic Hair

    November 30, 2017
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