Tag: Art
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Of loss and love
Of loss and love Before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, more than 14.000 people had already died in the war that started back in 2014. In the Mothers Series Ukrainian photographers portray hundreds of mothers that have lost a soldier son in the early years of the war. Under each picture…
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Valeriia
Valeriia Gigantic picture banner of Valeriia, one of the millions of Ukrainian children that have fled their country to escape the horror of war. The banner, made by French artist JR, has been unrolled in different cities of the world. Last April still on the Piazza San Marco in Venice before it found a place…
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Nympha
Nympha Paolo Fantin, in his installation Lympha at the Venice Biennale, shows us a ‘nympha’ enveloped in pure white and light, but with dirty mud at her feet. It’s the nymph Daphne who has tried hard to escape from the passionate, aggressive advances by Apollo. In the end she finds a way out by turning…
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Hi Gautama
Hi Gautama Churches, temples, mosques … they are not just places of worship where the devotees come together to pray to their god(s). Nowadays they are also favourite environments for group photos and selfies. And for chatting of course, since that goes on day and night irrespective of where one finds oneself. Who knows the…
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Heavenly nymphs
Heavenly nymphs Liked by hindous and buddhists alike in their temple decorations, the dancing apsaras fulfil the ideal of feminine beauty:round-breasted wasp-waistedbroad-hipped Photo of the week: Namdroling Monastery, Madikeri, Karnataka, India 2019
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A statue of liberty
A statue of liberty In 1674, during a great storm, the nave of the gothic Dom Church in Utrecht collapsed and from the rubble one must have had a view into the choir and apse that were still standing. The nave had fallen to pieces because it had never been properly finished at the time…
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The lost heroes of Rozenoord
The lost heroes of Rozenoord A monument of empty chairs with nameplates underneath. Names of resistance fighters – mostly – who were executed nearby in the final months of Nazi German occupation of The Netherlands during World War 2.A chair without armrests for the young ones below 30 years of age; for the ones of…
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Lightness of being
Lightness of being In last week’s post I touched upon the innovative art of Mondrian, De Stijl and Bauhaus in the first half of last century and I mentioned their impact on abstract art and modern design.At a friend’s house in Geneva I once saw the coffee table of the picture. Impressed by its clever…
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Mondria(a)n
Mondria(a)n This painting (The Grey Tree), revealing cubist influence, shows Mondriaan at the crossroads between his earlier figurative work and his later purely abstract paintings. Mondriaan made it in 1911, the year he went to France where he wished to join the Parisian Avant Garde. On his way to Paris Mondriaan dropped one ‘a’ of…
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Bonies in the Art Museum (2021)
Bonies in the Art Museum (2021) (Nota bene: After Autumn Sonata, the first weekly post on my blog almost ten years ago, today’s post happens to be number 500. And I’m still there to continue!) The ‘Kunstmuseum’ (Art Museum) in The Hague, the GEM of Berlage, is a piece of art in itself. I think…
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