Saturday 30 September 2017

Victor Servranckx 'Opus 1' - 1921

"Another matter is, whether this abstract art, in the country of Rubens, will be anything more than a single phenomenon ..." - M. Stijns, 1926 "The Fine Arts in Belgium"

servranckx opus 1
Victor Servranckx – ‘Opus 1’, 1921, bronze sculpture, collection Mu.Zee Ostend (30 x 40 x 30 cm)

Wednesday 20 September 2017

Wassily Kandinsky 'Composition VII' - 1913


"To enjoy art, art-receptivity is the first requirement." - Dr. Achilles Stubbe (B), 1960
 
 
Kandinsky’s ‘Composition VII’, 1913 – OOC 200 cm x 300 cm (78.7” x 118.1”)
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Russia

Friday 15 September 2017

Oscar Jespers 'The Hooded Coat' - 1922


“Art is often a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.”




 



‘De Kapmantel’  carved stone, 1922 - Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Thursday 7 September 2017

The Philips Pavilion by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis - Expo 1958


“Colonization equals adventure. The scholar and the artist colonize daily. They discover and reveal. By revealing they change the view of things and they give the past a future.” - Le Corbusier

VMAN - ‘Philips Pavilion’ by Le Corbusier - Expo 58

The Philips Pavilion was a World's Fair pavilion designed for Expo '58 in Brussels by the office of Le Corbusier. Commissioned by Philips, an electronics company based in the Netherlands, the pavilion was designed to house a multimedia spectacle that celebrated postwar technological progress. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Pavilion)