December 23, 2024 4:32 am

MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / NEW YORK – MOMA, Museum of Modern Art New York: The Treachery of Images, by Salvador Dalì

He was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, Salvador Dalí was encouraged to practice his art, and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In 1923, Dalí was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and allegedly starting a riot among students over the academy’s choice of a professorship. …

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NORWEGIANS THREE SHADES OF POETRY

TRACKS – Poetry, by Sigbjørn Obstfelder Death does not makes me more afraid. They get constantly so many comrades. I will find the way, quietly following their fresh tracks. BURNED SHIPS – Poetry, by Henrik Hibsen Turn the prow of the ship from the north, the gods look bright, the played tracks. The fires of lands frost went out into …

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HUNGER – Novel, by Knut Hamsun

Hunger, it tells the story of an unnamed vagrant who stumbles around the streets of Norway’s capital looking for food. The great shock that the Nordic literature procured in the Europe of the late nineteenth century, is related to a novel by Knut Hamsun, Hunger (published in 1890). A young writer, passes a period of winding reflections in the city …

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THE PAINTING TRANSITION – Christian Krohg, from Romanticism to Naturalism

CHRISTIAN KROHG 1/3 – Inspired by the ideas of the realists he chose motives primarily from everyday life, Christian Krohg – in the 1880s and 1890 – he was a central figure in the debates about Norwegian culture, also developing an interest in naturalism and socially engaged art. In 1873, he moved to Karlsruhe, where he enrolled in the workshop …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / VIENNA – Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna: The Kiss (Lovers), by Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. He was born near Vienna, and lived in poverty while attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. In 1888, he received the Golden Order of Merit, from Emperor Franz Josef. In …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / NEW YORK – The MoMa Museum, New York: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, by Pablo Picasso

He was a Spanish painter (but also sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright), who spent most of his adult life in France. Pablo Picasso, is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, and demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. He showed a passion and a skill for …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES – Modern Art Museum /New York and Hermitage Museum / Saint Petersburg: The Dance, by Henry Matisse

Henri Matisse, a revolutionary and influential artist of the early 20th century (known for the expressive color and form of his Fauvist style). He had a major creative breakthrough in the years 1904-05. A visit to Saint-Tropez in southern France inspired him to paint bright, light-dappled canvases. Although his subjects were traditional (nudes, figures in landscapes, portraits, interior views), his …

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ALBERT VERWEY – The poetic constant renewal of the self

Editor of the magazine “The new guide” and director of “The quarterly magazine”, Albert Verwey founded and directed “The movement”, the creative container that fueled the new post-symbolist trends. He also taught at the University of Leiden. As contemplative poet, he has given us amazing pages, picking up his literary inspiration in timeless books: “Land” in 1896, “The Way of …

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AMERICAN POEMS – Langston Hughes

Yes, Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty-odd years between his first book in 1926 and his death.He received a scholarship to Lincoln University (in Pennsylvania). In 1923, he traveled to the Africa, visiting Senegal and Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo and Angola, and later visiting Europe (Italy and France, Russia and Spain). One of Hughes’ finest essays …

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DUTCH MUSIC – Sound shades of baroque, traditional and contemporary

Baroque Music from The Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-x3g0OIaJ0 Traditional Dutch Music – Dutch Windmills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxITYASgBI Dutch music top 40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49C5iDS-cs Choose a bench where you can publish what you have painted, what you have written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or the story of a journey that you have made. Past and Present are here and now. Our proposal …

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