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Kunsthaus window
Kunsthaus window When taking in and digesting art works in a museum there is always a moment that I pass a window and look through it at the world outside with an art-infused eye. This time it happened in the Kunsthaus in Zürich. It was winter and it had snowed a bit. Photo of the…
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Piet Mondria(a)n
Piet Mondria(a)n Mondria(a)n belongs to the canon of modern art. In the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam I saw the two top paintings exposed, in the Kunsthaus in Zürich the two bottom ones. The resemblance in choice of the two museums is striking. Mondria(a)n’s abstract work has become so commonplace and has been violated to such…
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh Two peasant women work the land with dedication, bent over in unison. With their postures and central position they energize the painting. That was at least what I felt when seeing it in the Kunsthaus in Zürich. The devotion of the peasant women is matched by each of Van Gogh’s vibrant brushstrokes.…
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Kijken Zien Schilderen
Kijken Zien Schilderen To Look See Paint Looking is what we do all the time, at the other, at the world around us. When we look with attentive concentration we start seeing the other, the world, in full consciousness. That’s what Dutch painters in the 17th century were good at and were perfecting ever more…
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Mosquito meditation
Mosquito meditation “How funny, the mosquito in my cup looks like one of the characters on my bib”, thus the Jizo seems to think. Or is it not a mosquito? Or does the character on the bib refer to something completely different? Or is the Jizo amused about my silly thoughts when I took his…
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From statues to stones
From statues to stones As the years go by and memories of the deceased children for whom they were erected fade, these ancient statues gradually weather and lose their Jizo-like features in a natural process of decay. Carved from stone into statues, and returned from statues to stone. Photo of the week: Old Jizo statues…
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Chisaku-in garden
Chisaku-in garden Sen no Rikyu, the legendary Japanese Tea master, is said to have loved the garden of the Chisaku-in temple. Rikyu died in 1591, while the temple was constructed in 1601. So the garden must have been layed out well before. I can imagine Rikyu sitting on a rock, contemplating the beauty of the…
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Procession
Procession In 2022 I was passing through the Museo Correr in great hurry when my eye fell on this relief fixed on a wall in one of the rooms. I quickly took a photo but had no time to search for a description of the work and I haven’t been able to find information about…
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Friends
Friends They had become our distant friends, the Himalayan peaks that we used to see from our house during the different seasons, year after year. Back in Europe I miss my Indian friends, the ones of stone as well as the ones of flesh and blood. Photo of the week: View from Maat village, Almora,…
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Binsar
Binsar Having left our abode in the Himalayan foothills, I now and then look at the pictures I took there. They let me return virtually to the places that have touched me and of which I cherish the memory. Photo of the week: Binsar Reserve, Uttarakhand, India 2018
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