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    Botticelli’s Primavera: The Enigma of a Masterpiece

    March 4, 2016 / 1 Comment

    Primavera is one of Botticelli’s most outstanding works. But when trying to explain the enigma of the scene, the interpretations become astoundingly foggy. It is this very confusion that leaves us at complete liberty to interpret it ourselves, if very vaguely, which perhaps suits Botticelli’s mysterious masterpiece better than anything else. We see a sacred lemon forest, a dark cluster of trees laden with golden fruits, pierced by the whiteness of a pale sky. Eight figures rise at the forest’s edge, on a multicoloured flowery meadow. They seem more like fleeting visions of a dream than actual people. These eight figures are set up in five different scenes and it…

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    Berthe Morisot

    May 29, 2019
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    Paul Gauguin and the Impressionists

    March 11, 2020
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    Nur in der Landschaft existieren wir, und wir sind die Geschöpfe einer Landschaft (John Constable)

    June 14, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Seien es Fakten oder Klischees, für jedes Land kursieren im kollektiven Gedächtnis eine Reihe landestypischer Besonderheiten und Skurrilitäten. Was verbinden wir heute mit England? Was ist für uns typisch britisch? Der obligatorische schwarze Tee zur nachmittäglichen „Tea time“? Die Queen? Die aufwendigen Hüte und farbenfrohen Kostüme der High Society? Mr. Bean oder der schwarze Humor der Bevölkerung? Der Regen? Einen ganz anderen Blickwinkel auf ihr Heimatland pflegten die englischen Maler zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts, dem „Goldenen Zeitalter“ der Landschaftsmalerei. Als Sohn eines Friseurs machte sich Joseph Mallord William Turner wenig aus Adel und Königshaus, nicht die Menschen, sondern die Landschaft faszinierte ihn. Einen Großteil seiner Kindheit verbrachte er auf…

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    Die Kunst Afrikas

    June 18, 2018

    Me, myself and I

    November 27, 2013

    In Dialogue with Käthe Kollwitz: Wieland Förster

    October 10, 2017
  • Art Exhibition,  Español

    Las particuliaridades inglesas y las acuarelas paisajísticas

    June 12, 2012 / 0 Comments

    ¿Qué puede haber más inglés que una taza de Earl Grey con una nube de leche? ¿Tal vez un sándwich de pepino en un platito de porcelana? Para el Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres, pocas cosas son tan peculiarmente inglesas como las acuarelas de los paisajistas británicos del siglo XIX y de principios del XX. Las acuarelas paisajísticas se pueden considerar la expresión artística de una época. Durante el siglo XIX, antes del auge de la fotografía, el paisajismo tuvo un papel predominante sobre otras formas de arte en la cultura occidental, y la topografía se convirtió en el instrumento ideal para representar detalladamente lugares concretos. La asociación entre…

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    李小龙:功夫、艺术和生活

    October 24, 2017
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    C’est toujours un peu mégalo un autoportrait.

    October 30, 2013
  • Art Exhibition,  Français

    Devinette…

    June 12, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Si on vous dit aquarelle, cieux, campagnes ?  Cela ne vous évoque rien ? Passons à un autre registre… Si on vous dit bus, cabine téléphonique, baked beans et pudding ? Toujours rien ? Alors une dernière série d’indices : thé – James Bond- une Reine et des chapeaux – Banksy ? Bravo ! Vous avez trouvé : bienvenue en Angleterre ! Le pays des Beatles, des Rolling Stones et de Vivienne Westwood! Sous des dehors très stricts, le pays champion de la contre-culture et de la culture underground ! Quel autre pays serait capable de faire d’une jarretière, une décoration !! Cet esprit si « controversial », ne croyez pas qu’il soit…

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    Mutter und Kind (geteilt), 1993, Amors Luge, Damien Hirst

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    Learning from Africa

    July 3, 2013

    Marcel Lecomte: The secret chambers of surrealism

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  • Art Exhibition,  English

    So Peculiarly English: topographical watercolours

    June 6, 2012 / 2 Comments

    So peculiarly English…. a label I just can’t seem to shake off. But what is it that makes me and fifty million others so English, and so peculiar? I love the great stereotypes of England and its mad inhabitants, with our tea-drinking, cheese-rolling, queue-respecting and morris dancing. So how disappointed must I have been when I saw that the V&A, in order to celebrate Englishness, has put on an exhibition dedicated to English watercolour painting? English watercolours are not peculiar in any way, shape or form. In fact, they are the opposite, the very essence of banality. The only peculiar thing about them is that the English were the only…

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    马格利特、布达埃尔及当代艺术

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    Rubens: El Padre Spiritual de Botero

    January 31, 2018
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