Tag: painting
Exhibition of Belgian paintings by Ensor and Magritte in Munich – Culture
You don’t have to start with Pieter Brueghel, the grand master of the fantastic and the real, and delve into the fantasy worlds of the globally successful Belgian comic series…
Banksy: “Love is in the bin” auctioned for 16 million pounds – Foreign News
The hype surrounding the British street artist has reached a new dimension. The half-shredded Banksy work “Love is in the Bin” went under the hammer at the London auction house…
The Vienna Albertina celebrates Amedeo Modigliani. – Culture
A Modigliani exhibition offers every museum an enormous visitor potential. But also an enormous number of traps. After all, the police have not yet moved to Vienna’s Albertina. It was…
Munich: The Alte Pinakothek has bought a painting by Jacobus Vrel. – Munich
The Alte Pinakothek has bought a painting by the painter Jacobus Vrel. Actually, an entire exhibition should be dedicated to him in Munich, but it is not enough for that.…
Exhibition about Jasper Johns in USA: The one with the flags – culture
Scott Rothkopf and Carlos Basualdo are a rather unequal couple, even outwardly the two formed a clear contrast when they recently led a group of reporters through the galleries of…
Nicolas Sarkozy writes about art – culture
Nicolas Sarkozy, the ex-president of the French recently put on his ankle, has written a tome. About art. His people are perplexed. And the book quite touching. from Johanna Adorjan…
Picasso exhibition in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne – Culture
On November 13, 1953, Bertolt Brecht wrote a short note to his “dear comrade” Pablo Picasso. In it he asked for the artist’s approval to use the “wonderful poster design”…
The baroque artist Caravaggio was born 450 years ago – society
from Kia Vahland Caravaggio, the raw free spirit who paints dirty men on altarpieces and female models who prostitute themselves full-time. Who had the Old Testament Judith chopped off the…
A splendid pocket volume presents all of Frida Kahlo’s paintings – culture
With Frida Kahlo, the question of whether one can separate the artist and the work itself answers itself: They are one and can hardly be deciphered independently of one another.…
“Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Fraud & Greed” on Netflix – Culture
One reason for the popularity of the TV painter Bob Ross was his soft voice – he always sounded on TV as if he was lying in bed with a…