Tag: Art
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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 peer through the jalis of this temple, we are surprised to see a beautifully lit Mukhalingam – a four-faced lingam. So his rare Brahma temple in Khajuraho is, in fact, a Shiva temple. Without the help of Surya, the sun god,…
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Okame
Okame Okame is the name of the mask depicting a young woman with a small, upturned nose and large, round cheeks. It is also the name of the wife of the master carpenter who built the main hall of the Senbon Shakado Temple in Kyoto, where I saw this beautifully illuminated mask. The story goes…
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Noh apparition
Noh apparition In a Noh museum, one naturally expects to see Noh masks. With their painted high eyebrows (hikimayu) and other typical features, Noh masks often look striking. But this mask, emerging from the darkness, looks more like a ghost, with elements of the background faintly shining through the face.Are we looking at an illuminated…
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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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Fallen angel
Fallen angel Fallen from his heavenly nest, wings too small to keep his baby-build up in the air. Photo of the week: Fallen angel, Church of Corpus Christi, Krakow, Poland 2007
καιρός remembered 