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Wroklovek, gleefully celebrating whoever comes, his heart in his hand. Botanik, in Spring as in the Snow, he loves playing his big trumpet made of flower petals. Obiezysmak, he ate so much that almost burst his trousers. You’re walking through the streets of Wroclaw, Poland. http://visitwroclaw.eu/en What you see is a gnome, one of more than 300 people living with …

Here www.bannermancastle.org/index.html you can reach with a short ferried, with the certainty of finding the charm of a place where nature reigns, where two hours by train you put away from the hustle and bustle of New York, enjoy the silence, listening to the soothing sound of the waves and the birds chirping. Bannerman Island is a small piece of …

Although one passageway remains, the original houses are long gone. In their place you can see numbers 40 and 42 Vlamingstraat, built in the 19th century. Vermeer’s aunt Roentgen Claes, lived in the house at the right, with her children, until her death in 1670. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-2860 The provenance of The Little Street, is not in doubt, having been documented from …

A stately Delft church interior, or Johannes Vermeer’s view of Delft. You may wonder how these places appear today. What has changed in the course of 300 years? Where are his little jewels, made of color and light, now? Observing his paintings, you can discover that Vermeer did not make use of aerial perspective in his interiors (although he was …

JOHANNES VERMEER 1/4 – Many of his works (as the portrait “Girl with a Pearl Earring”), have a luminous quality. Despite how much he is admired today, he left behind a small legacy (approximately 36 paintings have been officially attributed to him). Since his passing, his works have been hung in many museums. In his final Years, he struggled financially, …

This masterpiece of Bosch, is an ambitious and complex. The wealth of inventiveness in the works of this painter, called into question several doctrines, among them psychoanalysis. The painting (representing biblical scenes) consists of three boards, and aims to describe the history of humanity. The researchers have interpreted the work as a warning regarding the dangers of the temptations of …

In the late fifties, it was born in Britain, growing mainly in the US since the sixties. Acknowledged master of pop art Andy Warhol was the creative who transformed from the single object of art in a mass-produced. Equally famous are David Hockney and Jeff Koons. The name “pop art“, is derived from the English word “popular art”, an artistic …

MAC BECKMANN 1/4 – He was born in Leipzig on a February day. Against strong opposition from his family, he pursues a career as an artist. He is accepted into the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School. The en plein air painting (which is taught there), makes the academy one of Gemany’s most progressive art schools. He goes to Paris to …

For the painting “Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath” (a masterpiece of art by the Swedish artist Anders Zorn, that you can normally admire at the Stockholm National Museum), you will have to ask questions at the ticket office. Due to renovation, Nationalmuseum regular museum building is closed, but you can visit its temporary exhibition spaces in central Stockholm http://www.nationalmuseum.se/sv/english-startpage/ …

ANDERS ZORN 1/4 – He was one of Sweden’s foremost artists. His fame abroad is founded mostly on his portraiture, where he had the ability to capture the personality of the depicted person. In Sweden his nude studies are very famous (as his genre pictures, which mostly depict people at work). As a young boy, he had shown an artistic …