Tag: Art
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Geneigter Frauenkopf
Geneigter Frauenkopf Better known in its bronze cast, I particularly like the plaster version of this sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck that I saw in the Museum of Modern Art in Freiburg. It is so beautifully placed in its transparent perspex box against the white window. Exceptionally delicate and moving. Photo of the week: Wilhelm Lehmbruck,…
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Girl in red …
Girl in red … … and its rear side. Two works the expressionist painter Hermann Scherer (1893 – 1927) made towards the end of his short life. Maybe he didn’t want to lose precious time in preparing a new canvas. Photos of the week: Hermann Scherer, Mädchen in rotem Kleid, 1924-26, and Zwei Frauen, rückseitig…
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Chagall
Chagall In the later years of his life Chagall took to the creation of stained glass windows. It seems he has made 86(!) in all. I have seen some of them, in Jerusalem, in the cathedrals of Metz and Reims, and then these ones in the Fraumünster in Zürich where he has made six. With…
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The encounter
The encounter Two women, I presume, meet in the forest. The woman on the right looks shocked. Maybe she has just heard some terrible news from the other one. Or, maybe, she had not expected to see the other alive. “You here? I was told you had died!” Or maybe the other person has burned…
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Haus Konstruktiv
Haus Konstruktiv Museum in Zürich “für konstruktiv-konkrete und konzeptuelle Kunst”. In the stairwell, looking down: a nice play of lines, angles and light. And elsewhere in the straight-lined museum: the curves of Claudia Comte. Photo of the week: Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland 2022
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Light in the dark
Light in the dark There aren’t many Brahma temples in India and when we peep through the jalis of this one we see to our surprise a nicely lit Mukhalingam, a lingam with four faces. So this rare Brahma temple in Khajuraho is actually a Shiva temple. Without the help of Surya, the sun god,…
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Okame
Okame Okame is the name for the mask of a young woman with a small upturned nose and big round cheeks. It is also the name of the wife of the master carpenter who built the large hall of the Senbon Shakado temple in Kyoto where I saw this nicely illuminated mask. The story goes…
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Noh apparition
Noh apparition In a Noh museum one can expect to see Noh masks. With their painted high eyebrows (hikimayu) and other typical features, Noh masks often have a striking appearance. But this mask, emerging from the dark, looks more like a phantom, with elements of the background faintly shining through its face.Do we see here…
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A drunk’s dream
A drunk’s dream Had the bottles been full this would have been a drunk’s paradise. Empty they’re his worst nightmare. Photo of the week: Bottle room, Mythri Manasa Sangama, near Bangalore, Karnataka, India 2019
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Assembly
Assembly The men look down on the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. I thought of giving them some distraction with a girl in Paestum making her toilet. Photos of the week: (left) Piazza del Popolo, Rome 1998, and (right) Sculpture souvenir shop, Paestum 2000, Italy
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