Tag: Art
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Crucifixion
Crucifixion During Lent, the weeks before Easter, I happily bring out the oratorios by Handel (Messiah), Caldara (Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo) and of course Bach (St. Matthew and St. John Passion) to immerse myself in magnificent music that recollects among other things the life and Passion of Christ. Does ardent faith play a part…
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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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On the roof of the world
On the roof of the world Outside, on the top floor of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, you can see the surrounding mountains through the richly gilded roofs. With their velvety green blanket, they almost look like a film set. Photo of the week: Jokhang, Lhasa, Tibet 1996
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Guardian angel
Guardian angel She may not exactly have the angelic looks that you would expect, but I think I recognize in this painting Palden Lhamo, the protector of the Dalai Lama, of Lhasa, even of the whole of Tibet. Many deities are known in benign and in wrathful forms. And it is in their wrathful appearance…
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Tactile Arts
Tactile Arts A ceramics exhibition at the Tactile Arts gallery in Darwin. What holds attraction for me though is not inside but at the other side of the window. Do I see it right, this fairylike spectacle? Tactile Arts. To touch is to feel is to make sure. But no, let’s not spoil the illusion.…
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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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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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Joy of life
Joy of life It was a nice surprise to discover the cute erotic scenes at the bottom of a row of struts that had fallen down in the 2015 earthquake. As if showing us that after a disaster life does resume its course with new zest. What is she up to? I have seen many…
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Heaps of arms, rows of struts
Heaps of arms, rows of struts All fallen down during the earthquake of 2015. The only advantage of this sad sight is that we can admire the wood carvings from close. The reconstruction of Durbar Square takes years, but at some point these arms and struts will get fixed again under the roofs of the…
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