Le Chahut (The Can-can) by Georges Seurat (1859-1891) - Kröller-Müller collection (NL) -
170cm x 141cm
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Friday, 8 April 2016
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.
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
'Mercurius' by Marcel Lempereur-Haut (B) - 1930
"Through geometry one finds nature!" –quote LH
‘Mercurius’ by Marcel Lempereur-Haut (B) – 1930 Location: MSK Gent – Belgium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Lempereur-Haut
Friday, 18 March 2016
'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
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
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)
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