Tag: Art
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Globed breasts adorned with pearls
Globed breasts adorned with pearls Globed breasts adorned with pearls sandal-misted, wide curving hips with girdles strung with bells, precious anklets making music on their lotus feet, lit with happiness deep within women now enhance their beauty. In strophes like this Kālidāsa sings of the feminine ideal in his long poem Ṛtusaṃhāram (The Gathering of…
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Béla Tarr and the seventh art
Béla Tarr and the seventh art His last and maybe final film: The Turin Horse (black and white, 146′, 2011). There is inside and outside. Outside: a deafening storm rages over the barren land. The gale blows clouds of sand and dead leaves in the air. A desolate bare tree stands on the hill in…
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Art with a wink
Art with a wink One girl is looking intently at the other, and vice versa. They are both completely fascinated by the sight of the other.I remember having, a long time ago, a booklet intended to be humorous, entitled ‘Art with a wink’, with a winking Mona Lisa on the cover.Here, it is not the…
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Aegina – Paleochora
Aegina – Paleochora The old town of Aegina had always been at the coast of the island, next to the harbour where it is situated now again. But in the 9th century the town was shifted inland where it could be defended better against the attacks of the Saracens. In the 18th century there were…
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Café Kafka
Café Kafka Several cafés in Prague where Kafka liked to come a century ago with his friend Max Brod do not exist anymore. Instead we now find cafés named after him. If Brod had followed Kafka’s wish and had destroyed his friend’s unpublished manuscripts after his untimely death in 1924, the world would not have…
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Gorazdova Heaven
Gorazdova Heaven This heaven seems badly in need of a lick of paint. But even if it was less run down, it would still be a rather strange impression of a heavenly abode, at least from the outside. Good that it is clearly indicated so we know where to report after our death. Photo of…
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Gorazdova 13
Gorazdova 13 Again no.13, my lucky number, this time in Prague! The lady’s head above the door and the delicate pattern of leafy twigs and fruits all around is nicely done. It’s a fine example of the decorated façades in Art Nouveau style for which this city is known. When walking the streets of Prague…
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A man and his dream
A man and his dream This thought occurred to me as I took the photograph. What I actually saw was this:A corner of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. A sleepy visitor sitting in a chair. In the foreground, a sculpture of a voluptuous naked woman. Photo of the week: Art Gallery…
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Blue nude
Blue nude Throughout his long creative life the female figure, dressed or nude, has been a favourite theme of Henri Matisse. In hundreds of paintings, drawings and sculptures he has sung the beauty of woman. The last ten years of his life he was bedridden and couldn’t paint anymore but his creativity remained unbroken. From…
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Fränzi
Fränzi More than a century ago, the painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was part of “Die Brücke”, a small group of German artists that with their work wanted to form a bridge (Brücke) between the old art and a new style of painting which became known as expressionism. For a few years around 1910, a young…
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