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KLEE AND AGUÉLI: FRIENDS OF LIGHT
Klee and Aguéli are two names you would not normally write in the same sentence. However, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm has just opened an exhibition where these two painters are looked at in the same light. And this is precisely the element of affinity the museum has found between the German and the Swedish. Their travels in the north of Africa, their shocking encounters with the light of this continent, and the spirituality which ensued the life-changing experience: in the form of colour adoption and realisation of the self for the former, and in the shape of religious conversion and language acquisition for the latter. Obsessed by colour. This…
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Why the Soul of Surrealism is in India
If all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, then where do the Surrealists sit? According to my imagined global map of where art movements should be located, the Impressionists are based in the South of France, the Blaue Reiter in Germany, the Nabis in Stockholm, Cubism in Iceland, the Old Masters (da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, etc.) in Italy, Aestheticism in Decorative Arts in Shanghai, Digital Art in Oslo, and Lyrical Abstraction in Tokyo. Of course, this is entirely subjective, but I think that certain countries, or cities, really do go hand in hand with the style or ideals that various art movements represent.
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Le XIXe siècle, éternelle chronique de l’art français
Le xixe siècle français : siècle de l’art de vivre à la française. Qui ne pense pas tout de suite à Toulouse-Lautrec et au monde des bordels de Montmartre, à la forte consommation d’absinthe qui, en un sens, développait l’esprit créatif, à la grande époque du Moulin Rouge, aux cafés-concerts et à Pigalle. Révolution, industrialisation, bourgeoisie, tels sont les mots qui nous viennent à l’esprit. Mais il faut surtout penser à la Modernité, aux changements des mœurs. Comme le prouve le tableau d’Édouard Manet ci-dessous, ce siècle a été avant tout celui du renouveau et des chocs visuels pour le grand public : une femme nue au milieu d’hommes habillés, pure…
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