Tag: Art
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Bleu de Chartres
Bleu de Chartres When you enter Chartres Cathedral, the blue light in the stained-glass windows immediately catches your eye: the famous blue of Chartres. There are many different colours in the stained glass, red, yellow, green, white … but it is the intensity of the blue that dominates the image. The photo shows a detail…
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The A of Achilles
The A of Achilles In 1962, Cy Twombly created two paintings “about” Achilles: “Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus” and “The Vengeance of Achilles”, depicted here. In both paintings, as is often the case with Twombly, the title of the work is a fairly inconspicuous part of the composition. What is all the more striking…
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Art and Nature
Art and Nature Thousands of dried laurel leaves caught in an open wire construction.A play of infinite shades of brown.The richness of Arte Povera. Photos of the week: Breathing the Shadow (Respirare l’ombra), Laurel Leaves, 2005, detail and in full in the back of Earth Shadow (Ombra di terra), Bronze and Terracotta, 2003, by Giuseppe…
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Our living soil
Our living soil A rhizotron is a type of underground laboratory in which the interaction between the soil, the roots and animals below the surface and the plants above can be studied. The invisible is made visible.Placed above ground in the light, the rhizotron becomes a true work of art. Photo of the week: Rhizotron…
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Saenredam’s St. Bavo
Saenredam’s St. Bavo In the Rijksmuseum, the Getty Museum, the National Gallery in London or the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, you can come face to face with an interior of the Great St. Bavo Church in Haarlem painted by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam. He made at least 12 of them, each from a different…
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The St. Bavo organ
The St. Bavo organ In 1738, word must have spread like wildfire among organists and composers that Christian Müller had built one of the largest organs in the world for installation in the Grote St. Bavo Church in Haarlem. As early as 1740, Georg Friedrich Händel came to the city to play the Müller organ.…
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Framework
Framework I am not a fan of Utrillo’s work but I can appreciate his painting of the house in which Berlioz lived for several years and later Braque had his studio, which now no longer exists. Probably because it is one of the most austere paintings he did. Then again, I cannot appreciate the lavish…
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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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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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