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The Earth is round
The Earth is round The Earth is round. Its surface measures 510.000.000 km2. On a tiny part, in Gruyère, a tree and a chapel stand brotherly next to each other. Photo of the week: Charmey, Gruyère, Switzerland 2022
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Snow Country
Snow Country Why does this make me think of “Snow Country”, of Kawabata? Not just because the image depicts a snow-covered landscape. It is the sensitivity and perfection with which Kawabata describes feminine beauty in his novels.Here, it is nature that gives me the feeling of looking at a reclining nude, rendered with the same…
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Mountain goats
Mountain goats Like in Nolde’s Flower garden – Woman with Purple Dress where a woman merges with her garden (see last week’s Union), in Marc’s painting it is mountain goats that become one with their environment. The symbiotic relationship of goats with their surrounding mountain landscape gets in Marc’s case an abstract expression in bright…
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Union
Union A woman is wrapped up in her garden; she integrates with the splendour of flowers. If she wasn’t mentioned in the title of the painting you probably would not have noticed her. A nice example of a painter’s expression of unification. Photo of the week: Emil Nolde, Flower garden – Woman with Purple Dress,…
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Graceful lady
Graceful lady Seen not at Baume-les-Dames but at Baume-les-Messieurs. For me it’s about the play of light and colour in this picture, the yellow and the grey.As for the elegant saint, she does give extra lustre to the image. Photo of the week: Eglise abbatiale, Baume-les-Messieurs, France 2023
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Madonna
Madonna Romanesque Madonnas are not sweet. They look grave. They are fully aware of the responsible task that has ‘fallen into their lap’. Besides, they are a high point in the history of Western sculpture. Photo of the week: Detail from a Romanesque Virgin and Child, 12th cent., Musée Abbaye Royal de Brou, France 2024
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Windows 24
Windows 24 Food for thought – and a smile -, from Saint-Trivier-de Courtes, from Louhans, and from Vonnas. Photos of the week: France 2024
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Two takes, one lake
Two takes, one lake Just two out of a multitude of different possible takes of one and the same lake. Photos of the week: Etang de Pontremble, France 2024
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The bare interior
The bare interior The light and the emptiness of the nave and aisles of the 16th century late-gothic church in Brou reveal the elegant beauty of its architecture. A salutary contrast with the flamboyantly decorated exterior. Photo of the week: Eglise du Monastère Royal de Brou, France 2024
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The king’s face
The king’s face An impressive portrait of an unknown king from the façade of a 12th century church. He looks serious, responsible, but it is foremost the humane expression of his face that draws me to him. Photo of the week: King from the façade of the Notre-Dame-de-la-Coudre, 1150-1200, Musée du Louvre-Lens, France 2024
καιρός remembered
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