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Just finished reading “The Vanishing Futurist” and thought these paintings intriguing!
Paul Solovyev
Russian painter and art theoretician Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878–1935) is probably most famous for his enigmatic “Black Square” of 1913, now displayed at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It was just that – a black square. What was the big deal? Malevich believed that art was for spiritual awakening, and this fact has led to a range of interpretations of his work.
Taking Malevich’s style as a starting point, Russian artist Paul Solovyev has come up with his “Pope Art” series that uses colour and geometry to reveal greater truths. Paul asks: “What is Malevich’s “Black Square” — the Absolute or the Void, God or the opposite, the image or the absence of image, is it impossibly bright light or darkness, the living Word or the black square of censorship, the icon or the anti-icon?” Carefully composed, each painting of Paul’s raises similar questions.
“I get my inspiration literally everywhere,” the artist…
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ANDREW WYETH
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Back to work
Nice sketches!!
Today I am back to work. I did have an 80 minute massage before work today which left me very relaxed and mellow as I went into work. He also worked out the hamstring tie-in on my right side that was tweaked from the long flights. It was the perfect ending to my vacation.
The last couple of days were a nice slow return to life after vacation. We still had company for a couple of days. Although I didn’t sleep much on the plane and fell right to sleep when we got home I was still awake super early. We made it a full day, visiting with Vivian, going out to breakfast and then went out to get groceries and wash that were covered in pitch from being parked under the tree for two weeks.
Friday I was still waking up around 4:00 am. We went to Seal beach on Friday and had breakfast before walking on along the beach and…
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Novalis ist the subject of a great novel called- “The Blue Flower” by Penelope Fitzgerald. I think it has been translated into German.
“Wer unglücklich in der jetzigen Welt ist,
wer nicht findet, was er sucht –
der gehe in die Bücher- und Künstlerwelt –
in die Natur – diese ewige Antike
und Moderne zugleich …”
Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg), Fragmente und Studien IX 890
Trauminsel – 70 x 100 cm – Tusche auf Büttenpapier (c) Zeichnung von Susanne Haun
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Zitiert nach: Heilmann, Christoph (Hrsg.), „In uns selbst liegt Italien“, Die Kunst der Deutsch-Römer, München 1987, S.11.
Looks very interesting and to perhaps compare with Maggie Matthews new show at the Cornwall Contemporary in Penzance.
Tregony Gallery presents ‘Sea of Colour’ a mixed exhibition by the gallery artists starting 11th July and running through summer.
The Cornish summertime is particularly special with its vibrancy of colours and beautiful light. This abundance is reflected in the selection of work on display in the gallery adding newly represented artists who include myself, Jessica Allen, Sarah Spackman and ceramist Leonie Stanton and sculptor David Burrows.
My works that have been chosen by the gallery will include recent acrylic ink paintings inspired by local flora and fauna. Also on display will be some works in oil paint and mixed media which i made when i first came to Cornwall, influenced by the landscapes and seascapes that surround me in Penryn.
You are warmly invited to the Private View on Sunday 16 July 2017 2 pm – 5 pm
at Tregony Gallery, 58 Fore Street, Tregony, Cornwall TR2 5RW. I look…
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MAX LIEBERMANN
A great and interesting painter.
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BARON MÓR LIPÓT HERZOG
Baron Mór Lipót Herzog (1869-1934) was a passionate Jewish art collector in pre-war Hungary. Over his lifetime, he assembled the Herzog Collection, one of Europe’s great private collections of art and the largest in Hungary prior to World War II. However, the Herzog family’s legacy as patrons of the arts came to a sudden halt during the Hungarian Holocaust, when the Hungarian government, assisted by the Nazi regime in Germany, systematically annihilated its Jewish population and plundered their personal property and cultural treasures.
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GERMANY 1919-1933 – EXHIBITION
Looks like a great exhibition.Dix is powerful and Sander fascinating.
Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-1933
Featuring more than 300 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs, Portraying a Nation combines two exhibitions: Otto Dix: The Evil Eye, which includes paintings and works on paper that explore Dix’s harshly realistic depictions of German society and brutality of war, and ARTIST ROOMS: August Sander, which presents photographs from Sander’s best known series People of the Twentieth Century, his attempt to document the German people. In painting and photography, these works from a pivotal point in the country’s history reflect both the glamour and the misery of Weimar Republic.
WHEN: Until 15 October 2017
WHERE: Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.
More about the exhibition HERE.
More about Otto Dix HERE.
More about August Sander HERE.
I think there’s some irony here too. The self abasement being rather inimical to the form.
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