Tag: Art
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Pegasus
Pegasus Pegasus in the footsteps of Icarus.Wings burned; fallen from the sky on top of a high building.What now? Photo of the week: Pegasus, Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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The escape
The escape For the 2024 edition of ‘Le Voyage à Nantes’ Cyril Pedrosa has liberated the four caryatids of the Wallace fountain in four progressive steps. First two caryatids have lowered their arms and can now do something else, like watering seedlings, while the other two manage to hold the dome up in the air.…
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The Wallace fountain
The Wallace fountain For the last 150 years numerous of these free drinking water fountains can be found all over Paris. They are called Wallace fountains, named after the British philanthropist who made the initial design and financed them. They were further developed and sculpted by Charles-Auguste Lebourg, an artist from Nantes, where this specimen…
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Back again
Back again This girl just comes back from her own ‘Voyage à Nantes’. She was placed here by Philippe Ramette for the 2018 edition of the artistic itinerary in Nantes and she loves to roam around the city every now and then, especially when a new itinerary has been laid out. Photos of the week:…
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Interior jungle
Interior jungle Every year the city of Nantes organises an artistic itinerary (Le Voyage à Nantes) which leads you through the different neigbourhoods of the city and for which invited artists have made art works on location. Some of these art works are kept after the exhibition is over and become permanent land marks of…
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Mass tourism
Mass tourism Ever tried to look at Monet’s Sunset in its entirity in the Orangerie? Ever climbed up to sunset point on the hill in Luang Prabang? Photos of the week: Claude Monet, Nymphéas (1916-1926) – Soleil couchant, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France 2024;Sunset at Phu Si hill, Luang Prabang, Laos 2020
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Nymphéas
Nymphéas The 100 metres of water lilies divided over eight canvasses that Monet painted towards the end of his life for the Orangerie are hanging there now for almost 100 years. And like all great art they seem timeless. They haven’t aged. The only thing that has changed over the years is the appearance of…
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The Last Judgement
The Last Judgement Having grown up in a catholic family I know about heaven and hell. But with the faith, the desire for one and fear for the other have disappeared from my life. I still love their images however when they pop up in the long history of the arts, as in the polyptych…
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To hell
To hell On Judgement Day the dead rise from their graves. Archangel Michael weighs their souls and the owners of those that tip the scales because of the serious sins committed during their lifetime are sent to hell. Photos of the week: En route à l’enfer, détails du polyptique du ‘Jugement dernier’ de Rogier van…
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1+1=1
1+1=1 I started the year with an image of the fusion of two lovers. Here it is two vases that are attracted to each other. Two vases merging into one beautiful work of art. Photo of the week: Deux vases – Lea Georg, Biennale de la Céramique 2016, Saint-Cergue, Switzerland 2016
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