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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
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Pegasus
Pegasus Pegasus in the footsteps of Icarus.Wings burned; fallen from the sky on top of a high building.What now? Photo of the week: Pegasus, Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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Think again
Think again Second thoughts of a wall in Cluny: I don’t want windows here, I want them there. Or wait a minute, they will still be better over there. Photo of the week: Wall in Cluny, France 2025
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Mirage
Mirage The sky seen in the dark, whirling water of the Limmat just before it falls over the edge. Photo of the week: Waterfall in the Limmat river, Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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The escape
The escape For the 2024 edition of ‘Le Voyage à Nantes’ Cyril Pedrosa has liberated the four caryatids of the Wallace fountain in four progressive steps. First two caryatids have lowered their arms and can now do something else, like watering seedlings, while the other two manage to hold the dome up in the air.…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 