Category: Europe
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Palazzo del Podesta
Palazzo del Podesta When you look back from the steps of the Palazzo dei Consoli in Gubbio you see at the other end of the Piazza Grande the façade of the Palazzo del Podesta. The irregular distribution of the differently sized windows in the huge wall is fascinating. It invited me to make this composition.…
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Greek Madonna
Greek Madonna This Madonna, painted on cloth, appeals to me. I think it is the expression of her longish face that made me look at her intently. I feel in it a tinge of sadness. There runs a scarcely perceptible fold through the hanging cloth as a result of which the left half of her…
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Flesh
Flesh Is this then what became of man after the expulsion from paradise? (See last week’s post). A pile of flesh on what looks more like a table than a bed. Edmondson nicely calls his painting ‘Sleeping Arrangements’. We can recognize some human limbs, but can’t easily make out to which body they belong. We…
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Paradise lost
Paradise lost As two light shadows, that’s how Bokor lets them disappear in his beautiful painting ‘Expulsion from Paradise’. The shadows are merging with the landscape: they can only just be distinguished from the surrounding nature. Their undefined form fits the pristine, natural state of Adam and Eve at this early phase in the genesis…
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Life
Life Fanciful, moss-grown branches against a variegated background of light green, dancing leaflets. And we, eyed creatures, are getting smashed on the constant feast of nature. Photo of the week: Switzerland 2009
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Invisible water
Invisible water At this spot the Aiguillon River has carved out a basin in which water remains. You can’t see it but the photo gives evidence that it is there: I notice certain elements and shadows with their reflected mirror images underneath. But I cannot find up to where the water reaches on the basin…
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The lonely bather
The lonely bather The old French landscape shows many deep tracks drawn by rivers during millions of years. It’s nice descending into them for a cool bath, or to follow the riverbed for a while between the steep walls of the worn out gorges. These are “Les Concluses de Lussan”, with deep gorges carved out…
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Eau non potable
Eau non potable If we spout water, don’t drink it. If you do, you can tell by our faces what comes of it! Photo of the week: Fountain, Carpentras, France 2016
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Classic profiles
Classic profiles It catches the eye, that big head against a rock in the river. I don’t know why it was placed there, but it takes our thoughts back to the arts of Greek antiquity. And that’s always gratifying. The face in profile reminds me of a sculpture I had seen a few days before…
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Boating on the Wisla
Boating on the Wisla I was struck by the little boats. So tiny, they look like toys! The culprit is the huge building at the back. It creates a kind of inverse perspective and we are not used to that. As if the right proportions between the objects have gone lost. A confusing image. Photo…
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