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  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  English

    Please Deceive Me

    July 30, 2013 / 0 Comments

    We love trickery. Or rather, we love the quest for innovation, the unexpected, and the impossible. When the impossible turns out to be, well, impossible, then we settle for illusion. What better way to explain the success of Harry Houdini, David Blaine, David Copperfield, and illusion within photography (check out the Huffington Post for some really trippy images)? Of course, Photoshop is the bee’s knees, or so they say, when it comes to manipulating an image to give you a photo which deceives the eye and makes you say Wow! Or is it?

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    November 29, 2022
    Die ,Sterbende Prinzessin'. 5.-6. Jh. n. Chr. indische Malerei

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    January 5, 2023
  • 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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    Art Under Attack

    November 22, 2013

    A Searching Truth

    June 4, 2013

    Rubens: Le Père Spirituel de Botero

    February 2, 2018
  • Art Exhibition,  Français

    Avec ou sans Formes ?

    November 8, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Un corps parfait. C’est ce que prône la mode du XXIᵉ siècle. À l’époque où la maigreur est de mise, où le naturel tend à disparaître au profit du superficiel, où, à en observer les magazines et les mentalités, seules les femmes très minces sont considérées comme « belles », que penser des célèbres nus de Rubens ? Ces nus bien en chair, voluptueux, aux formes généreuses, ces corps d’une blancheur extrême mais surtout d’une sensualité sans précédent que le maître du Baroque prenait plaisir à réaliser ? Une adolescente penserait probablement  des Trois Grâces qu’elles sont : «  grasses ». Personnellement,  je pense que Rubens, par son talent et sa façon de peindre, a…

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    Der Erwerb des Seelenheils

    September 18, 2012
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    Plain Jane or Fancy Pants?

    March 14, 2013

    The Venetian (Beach) School

    January 25, 2014
  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  Artist,  Español

    Rubens también se habría dejado seducir por el Photoshop

    October 5, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Aquí y ahora, me propongo romper una lanza a favor de la belleza alterada, esa que busca la perfección que resulta agradable a la vista. ¿Y a qué se debe mi repentino interés por esta falsedad y por qué la reivindico? En primer lugar, se me ha dado la oportunidad de hablar de Pedro Pablo Rubens, archiconocido por sus representaciones de mujeres rotundas y lozanas. En segundo lugar, porque a diario la prensa internacional recoge notas polémicas relacionadas con el Photoshop, esa herramienta que convierte a los diseñadores gráficos en dioses modeladores de la imagen. Veamos algunas de las más recientes. En respuesta a la petición impulsada por una joven…

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    The imagination of William Blake: Bridging the Divine and the Human

    October 1, 2024
    H. Mailly: Porträt von Gautier.

    Rausch in der Literatur: von Gautier bis Cocteau

    July 22, 2014
    Der Ozean, 1865

    James McNeill Whistler – Geboren unter einem wandernden Stern

    February 17, 2022
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Photoshopping and Photobombing…Peter Paul Rubens-Style!

    October 4, 2012 / 0 Comments

    When I open any magazine these days, I look at the photos of waif-like women with perfect skin, hair and teeth, without a jot of cellulite to be seen, and it’s what I expect to see.  I admit it!  The world of mass media has done its work very well indeed.  There is perhaps a handful of women who may be naturally blessed with the genetic make-up to look as flawless as those pictured on billboards without the help of Photoshop.   And that’s just it; technology such as Photoshop gives me expectations.  If I were to see an ad with the models remaining unaltered, I would be surprised.  It’s human…

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    Art: I know It When I See It

    July 26, 2013

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    October 30, 2017
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    Von Wandmalereien zu Meisterwerken: Das Vermächtnis von Diego Rivera

    April 27, 2023
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