Käthe Kollwitz "Woman with Dead Child" - 1903

 

“Ideas and emotions will in the end be prisoners in the artwork. Whatever they do, they can’t escape from the picture.”

– Picasso ‘conversation at Boisgeloup’, 1935

Käthe (Schmidt) Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945), “Woman with Dead Child” - 1903 etching

Fernand Khnopff's "Incense" - 1898

 

“Art transports us from the world of man’s activity to a world of aestethic excalation.”

– Clive Bell ‘The Aesthetic Hypothesis’, London  1914

“Incense” - Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), pastel on charcoal and paper, 1898, Collection: Vlaamse Gemeenschap, location: MSK Gent. (Khnopff’s sister Marguerite was model for this triptych of which only one part is made)

Joseph Beuys 'Sand drawings' - 1974

"Art does not exist to serve the intellect, but to develop the creative potential and inner strength of man." - quote Joseph Beuys

The two lines in the sand refer to an early work “Intuition” Kat.28/mutiple” from 1968. They symbolise the difference between knowledge (the first limited upper line) and intuition (the second open line). Beuys believes that intuition is more reliable and stronger than acquired knowlegde. The second ‘intuition’-line ends in a well and gives the work an extra dimension.

Offset lithograph 1978: Joseph Beuys & Charles Wilp (photographer), Sand Drawings (portfolio -Sandzeichnungen)

 

An art lover's blogspot > first birthday!

°22/08/2014 - “Anartlovers.blogspot.be” celebrates his first birthday!

In one year we had over 3.000 visitors! Many thanks! Go forward Art lovers!!!

Photo: Ivan Mestrovic (Yugoslavian, 1883-1962). Archangel Gabriel, 1918.

Source: brooklynmuseum

 

"The Fall of the Damned" by Peter Paul Rubens - 1620

Peter Paul Rubens, a painter and draftsman from Antwerp, was the most important and celebrated 17-century artist from Northern Europe. His influence was particularly strong. From 1620 onwards the so-called ‘high baroque’ (maniera grande) was introduced in his work.

“The Fall of the Damned” is such a highly dramatic and monumental religious painting. It features a jumble of the bodies of the damned, hurled into abyss by archangel Michael and accompanying angels.

The sketch of The Fall of the Damned was made in black and red chalks, with a grey wash and is kept in the British Museum. It is assumed to be the work of a studio assistant, while Rubens then went over the drawing with brush and oil colour.

At the lower edges, a monk is pulled down, gnawed by demons. Above him, a huge woman is carried on the back of another devil, his tail wrapped around her legs. At all angles, twisting and turning, these unfortunate souls stare up in terror at their terrible fates, or cover their heads in shame. No need to tell that this painting impressed the viewer…

 

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/p/rubens,_fall_of_the_damned.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Damned

James Whistler 'Chez George Sauer' - 1858

At the age of 24, the American painter James McNeill Whistler, makes a drawing of George Sauer, the French pub owner of ‘Le Lion Rouge’ for a plate of soup ...  – source: Freer Gallery of Art