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Isidore Pils: History Painter and “Realist Reporter”
11 January, 1871. Snow covers the bunker installations of Bastion 69, southwest of Paris. Several soldiers are on guard with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets. An icy wind is blowing over the defence walls. One waits, time seems to stand still, as if it were frozen. One person among the guards is not a soldier, […]
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“Wie sind uns jetzt sicher.” Werner Spies zu Bernard Buffet
Not translated: Das Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt zeigt eine Retrospektive des lange verdrängten und vergessenen Malerstars der fünfziger und sechziger Jahre. In der Ausstellung “Tauchfahrten. Zeichnung als Reportage”, die 2004/2005 im Kunstverein Hannover und der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf stattfand, war Bernard Buffet mit zwei Industriereportagen der sechziger Jahre vertreten, mit einem Porträt der Burda-Werke […]
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Van Goghs Favorites II: Hubert Herkomer and the School of English Social Realism
“There is something virile in it – something rugged – which attracts me strongly (…) In all these fellows I see an energy, a determination and a free, healthy, cheerful spirit that animate me. And in their work there is something lofty and dignified – even when they draw a dunghill.” Vincent van Gogh, October […]
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Van Goghs Favorites I: Xylographism unbound – The influence of illustrated journal graphics on the art of Vincent van Gogh.
Only in recent years has one gained the insight that Vincent van Gogh was not only a collector of Japanese graphic prints, like many of his artist colleagues, but was also imbued by a passion for the pictorial art of illustrated journals of his times. This was mainly thanks to two exhibitions: One, in spring […]
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Hélio Melo – The Whole of Acre in a single Tree
In the work Estrada da Floresta [Forest Highway] by artist Hélio Melo (1926–2001, from the Brazilian state of Acre) a rubber tapper – in Portuguese, seringueiro –approaches a big rubber tree, which in the wild can measure in excess of thirty meters in height and almost three meters in diameter. The picture does not therefore […]
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Laptop in Chinese
Matthias Reinhold attended a six-month course dealing with traditional Chinese painting at the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, in southeast China. He presents a report for the MePri on the teachings conveyed at the art academy in the field of tension between classical landscape painting and the present-day reality of life, and on the […]
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Jan van der Heyden – Vedutismus und Pyroreport. (Ausstellungsbesprechung)
No translation yet. Die Ausstellung „Jan van der Heyden, painter and inventor“ im Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2. 2. – 30.4. 2007)Möglicherweise hat es eines derart exklamatorischen Obertitels wie „Braand /Fire!“ bedurft und eines nicht minder sensationistischen Vergleichs des Subjekts der Ausstellung mit Leonardo da Vinci, um über die obligatorischen Amsterdam-Pauschaltouristen hinaus noch weitere Besucher in die […]