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Square plate
Square plate Patrick Rollet has given his piece of ceramic simply the above title. But it is more than that. The shape is more interesting than just a square plate and the design and quality of the glaze with its suggestion of rounded volumes – thighs and belly? – is outright beautiful. His square plate…
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Just a landscape?
Just a landscape? Over the past few years, I have been taking more pictures of landscapes that evoke a certain emotion in me as a hiker. I then try to depict the landscape in such a way that I can use the photo to reawaken the emotion felt.Here we are looking at an agricultural landscape…
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High and happy
High and happy Before attacking the higher summits. Photo of the week: Kathmandu Valley, Nepal 1996
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Attention please
Attention please Photos of the week: Stickers on the path along the Limmat river, Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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The Offering
The Offering What always impresses me about the Polynesian women in Gauguin’s paintings is the solid shape of their bodies and the serious expression on their faces. They exude an understated strength. That takes me in for them as well as for Gauguin. Photo of the week: Paul Gauguin, The Offering (detail), 1902, Sammlung Emile…
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Bührle
Bührle In the run-up to World War II, the artist Oskar Kokoschka, declared ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis, fled from his native Austria to Czechoslovakia. He was then forced to emigrate to England, where, among other things, he created several anti-fascist paintings during the war. At the same time, the German arms manufacturer and dealer Bührle…
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Mr. and Mrs. Cézanne
Mr. and Mrs. Cézanne What would they have thought of the fact that they were going to be part of the Bührle collection, as mentioned on the captions next to the paintings in the Kunsthaus museum.Bührle, the art collector, having become filthy rich through his arms trade with Nazi Germany.You look at the portraits, admire…
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Kunst im Kunsthaus
Kunst im Kunsthaus This sculpture, placed in a large open space of the Kunsthaus, enters into a special relationship with its environment. We may speak of a very happy union. I can’t imagine a more beautiful contrast between Maillol’s reclining nude and the bare straight surfaces in this corner of the museum. Sculpture and space…
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Reclining woman
Reclining woman Picasso’s ‘Big Nude’ seen through ‘The Forest’ by Giacometti. A painting and a sculpture in a room of the Kunsthaus. Photos of the week: Pablo Picasso, Big Nude, 1964, and: Alberto Giacometti, The Forest, bronze, 1950, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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Tall Woman
Tall Woman When designing the extension of the Kunsthaus museum, Chipperfield may have had Giacometti’s Tall Woman in mind. Photo of the week: Alberto Giacometti, Tall Woman II, bronze, 1960, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland 2025
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 