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An exceptional panorama of Landscape painting
Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own.
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Falling in Love (Love – English version)
A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors and even architects have drawn inspiration from and illustrated it. Ever new, love has led artists to create the masterworks of their life.
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Jenny Saville Bares All
Jenny Saville is one brave woman. Her work fearlessly portrays bodies that, to put it gently, are not considered classically beautiful. Others have used the language obese and deformed. But hey, semantics. A mother of two children, Saville has stripped down for her own drawings that depict naked mothers and their children. Other massive scale paintings show overweight or transgender (or overweight and transgender) bodies, existing in the space between the gender binary. Saville has gained global acclaim for the light and curious gaze she has cast on these previously side-swept, discarded bodies. For those eager to see where her aesthetic is heading next, Saville is currently showcasing original drawings on…
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Koitieren, cloisonnieren, mal nach Bremen fahren
„So, und jetzt bitte mal husten.“ Woran denkt ihr? Richtig, Militärdienst! Diese hier aus Gründen des Jugendschutzes (es sind Hoden involviert!) nur angedeutete Anekdote wird mit meiner Generation aussterben. Um den Wehrdienst ist es nicht schade. Um den Zivildienst vielleicht schon irgendwie ein ganz kleines bisschen. Zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts jedenfalls entschied man in Frankreich per Los, wer eingezogen wurde. Ein gewisser Émile Bernard war 1888 unter den Glücklichen, sodass ihm sein Mentor Vincent van Gogh eines schönen Tages schrieb: „… iss gut, mache den Militärdienst gut, koitiere nicht zu viel.“ Ein Satz, den man gerne einmal selber unter einen Brief setzen würde, und ein Beweis dafür, dass im…
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Masculine/ Masculine?
When we hear ‘nude’, for most of us the image of a female body would immediately spring to mind. One of Titian’s fleshy, languorous beauties perhaps, or self-possessed Olympia and her hostile black cat. This is unsurprising, considering the proliferation of female nudes dominating art in the recent centuries. Before the 19th century, however, the male nude was considered much more important to artists. The male body was thought more attractive and the more important of the human forms. So much so that looking at many works from the Italian Renaissance, you would be forgiven for seeing men with a couple of breasts stuck on for fun, rather than a…
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Titian: not overthrown by the Olympians
The National Gallery is exhibiting three of Titians most famous paintings from his Metamorphosis series, as well as reactions to it by contemporary artists, poets and choreographers, as part of the Cultural Olympiad, a “summer”-long festival in the UK celebrating Britain’s cultural landscape. Nowhere does it say that the events, acts, performances and exhibitions of this Cultural Olympiad are for British self-promotion, but with a bouncy castle Stonehenge and 37 Shakespeare plays performed in 37 languages, not to mention the patriotic opening ceremony, you have to assume that promoting Britain and her diverse cultural landscape is indeed the aim of the Games. I was surprised, then, to see that…
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