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  • A swimming pool, Bikini Story
    Art,  English

    Sun, Sand, and Style: The Evolution of the Bikini

    June 6, 2023 / 0 Comments

    The bikini undoubtedly owed a large part of its success to the cinema – which actually featured it at first only because it was scandalous, and scandal filled seats. But it was quite right that there should have been some hesitation over it, for Hollywood had to be careful: initially it banned the bikini from the screen as “too corrupting and immoral.”

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    Nympheas, c. 1897-1898

    The Genius of Monet: Artistic Evolution and Visual Poetry

    August 22, 2023
    Madame Vigée-Lebrun und ihre Tochter, um 1789. Öl auf Leinwand, 130 x 94 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

    Eine Royalistin auf der Flucht

    December 5, 2014
    Georges de la Tour, Die Anbetung der Hirten, erste Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts

    Die Jungfrau Maria in der Kunst des frühen Mittelalters bis zu der frühen Neuzeit

    December 15, 2022
  • Art,  English

    Hot Summer time, Hot Bikini

    July 19, 2022 / 0 Comments

    On July 1, 1946, at 9 o’clock in the morning, an atomic bomb exploded with a force of 23,000 tons above Bikini, a coral atoll in the South Pacific hitherto virtually unheard of. More than six disarmed warships of the Japanese and American fleets were sunk and more than twice that number were seriously damaged.

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    Cuando el artista se mira de cara

    November 12, 2013
    Vincent van Gogh, Le PèreTanguy, 1887. Öl auf Leinwand, 92 x 75 cm. Musée Rodin, Paris.

    Faszination eines Berges

    September 17, 2014
    George Segal, Libération Gay, 1980

    Grande liberté : L’évolution de l’art gay et son impact sur la société

    June 23, 2023
  • On the beach
    Art,  Art and Design,  English

    Bikini or Burkini – The History of the Bikini

    May 18, 2022 / 0 Comments

    More than a bathing costume, the bikini made its own contribution during the 1970s to the sexual revolution and to the changing relationship between men and women in general.

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    1000 Portraits of Genius

    June 27, 2018

    李小龙:功夫、艺术和生活

    October 24, 2017
    Da-Vinci-Self-Portrait

    Leonardo: “The laws of the Italian Renaissance, and the geometry of universal beauty”.

    May 7, 2019
  • Retouched photo dating from the end of the 19th century showing a temporary changing-cubicle, Patrik Alac
    Ebook,  English

    A Cultural History with Bikini Story

    July 6, 2021 / 0 Comments

    It was in 1946 that the world first came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. This book is a collection of images throughout this book illustrates this progression step-by-step over a period of more than 50 years.

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    Paul Klee

    November 23, 2018
    Buddha-banner

    Serenity and Time

    July 4, 2019
    fashion-week-bikini-banner

    Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Strand Bikini

    February 28, 2019
  • The Guitar Lesson – Balthus 1934
    English,  Scandal of the month,  Shelley’s Art Musings

    Shelley’s Art Scandal – THAT painting by Balthus…

    February 16, 2020 / 0 Comments

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    Diego Rivera, Subterranean Forces, 1926-1927, Mexican Painting

    Mexican Painting – the story of the ever so restless Mexico

    September 20, 2022

    The Greatness of William Blake

    November 30, 2015
    The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus)

    The love that Angels create in our hearts

    April 5, 2022
  • love-is-in-the-bin
    Art,  Français,  Scandal of the month

    Shelley’s Art Scandal : L’énigme de Banksy

    October 17, 2019 / 0 Comments

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    Diego Rivera, Subterranean Forces, 1926-1927, Mexican Painting

    Mexican Painting – the story of the ever so restless Mexico

    September 20, 2022

    Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

    October 24, 2017

    [Part 1/3] Cubism: Square the Circle

    October 4, 2017
  • Kapoor-banner
    English,  Scandal of the month

    Vantablack- The blackest black ever

    August 16, 2019 / 0 Comments

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    Homosexuality in Art

    February 11, 2020
    Guernica-2

    Everything you can imagine is real

    April 3, 2018
    Pablo-Picasso

    Is Cubism Just Art in Cubes?

    November 8, 2018
  • Courbet-banner
    Arte Video,  Artist,  English

    Happy Birthday to Gustave Courbet

    July 3, 2019 / 0 Comments

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    Leonardo Da Vinci – L’architecte

    May 30, 2019
    American-Graffiti-1

    American Graffiti

    February 20, 2019
    Édouard-Manet-The-Balcony

    Berthe Morisot

    June 7, 2019
  • Damien-Hirst-2
    English,  Scandal of the month,  Shelley’s Art Musings

    Shelley’s Scandal of the Month – Spotlight on Damien Hirst.

    June 12, 2019 / 10 Comments

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    Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple, Nicolas Dipre, c.1500, Virgin Portraits, Klaus Carl

    Virgin Portraits

    April 27, 2021

    The Changing Face of Vallotton

    October 15, 2013
    Greek Sculpture_4

    Shelley’s Art Musing – Greek Myth Influences on Art

    July 31, 2018
  • tulip-paris
    English,  Scandal of the month

    Shelley’s Art Scandal – Tulips that weigh heavy for Paris

    December 17, 2018 / 0 Comments

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    Exhibition: Van Gogh & Japan

    October 3, 2017

    [Part 5/6] Expressionism: Make Love, Not War

    August 16, 2017

    Shelley’s Art Musings: Anti Racism or Human Stupidity?

    February 6, 2018
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