Hammershøi's 'Dust Motes' - 1900

“Hammershøi doesn’t scream, he wispers.” - quote Andrew Graham-Dixon in ‘The Art of Scandinavia’ reffering to ‘The scream’ of Edvard Munch.

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916): Sunbeams or Sunlight. “Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams”. Oil on canvas | 70 x 59 cm | 1900 – Danish Symbolist.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2008/jun/25/art.denmark

 

 

'Mercurius' by Marcel Lempereur-Haut (B) - 1930

"Through geometry one finds nature!" –quote LH

http://www.ina.fr/video/RCC00010716

‘Mercurius’ by Marcel Lempereur-Haut (B) – 1930 Location: MSK Gent – Belgium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Lempereur-Haut

'Excavation' by Willem de Kooning - 1950

"The abstract-expressionists prefer expression over perfection, vitality over finish, fluctuation over calmness, the unknown over the familiar, the veiled over the clear, the individual over society and the inner over the outer." - quote by William Seitz

Excavation, 1950, oil and enamel on canvas, 81 x 100 1/4 inches

Willem de Kooning – American, born Netherlands, 1904-1997

Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; restricted gifts of Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Noah Goldowsky, Jr., 1952.1 © The Art Institute of Chicago

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)

 

Giacomo Balla 'Mercury Passing Before the Sun' - 1914

"In this painting Balla attempts to project the entire futuristic thoughts of the universal dynamics in the cosmos. It is a vision of the universe with large circular movements of the astral systems, crossed by swirls, radiation and force fields. It is an attempt to synthesize the perception of reality, by which speed and modern understanding of nature, is much more involved than in the past and which also involve the non-visible, from which futurism derives."- Werner Haftmann, Painting in the 20th century, Rotterdam 1965

Tempera on paper lined with canvas, 120 x 100 cm
Gianni Mattioli Collection, location: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/dettagli/pop_up_opera2.php?id_opera=58&page=