Sunday 5 June 2011

Heroines

Today was the last day to visit the exhibition Heroines at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, veeeery eurocentric, but fascinating in any case. This post is definitely too long, but how can I choose? I would have liked to upload the whole exhibition here. There were contemporary works, photograpy, classical, romantic, subversion of classical themes...
I'll show you how the rooms were organised and some works that could really take your breath away.



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PAINTERS

The second floor at Fundación Caja Madrid was a delight to see, there are several works that I had posted about in my "homages" to women painters. But it made me think that I'm looking forward to a great  exhibition of women painters up to the 1950's. Dear curators of the world, take Germaine Greer's The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work and let yourselves be inspired.







Wish list: Rooms with a view


An exhibition:



Rooms with a View,


The Open Window in the 19th Century



From April 5, 2011 till July 4, 2011



at the Metropolitan Museum, New York



(not happening, to me at least)



"Everything at a distance turns into poetry: distant mountains, distant people, distant events: all become Romantic."



Novalis, 1798







Adolph Menzel (German, 1815–1905)
The Artist's Bedroom in Ritterstrasse, 1847






Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1788–1856)

A View of Naples through a Window, 1824



Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840)

Woman at the Window, 1822




Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785–1847)


Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio, 1811



Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785–1847)


In Front of the Mirror, 1827



Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785–1847)


Young Woman Sewing by Lamplight, 1823



Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785–1847)


Woman Embroidering, 1811



Giovanni Battista de Gubernatis (Italian, 1774–1837)


The Artist's Studio in Parma, 1812



Jakob Alt (Austrian, 1789–1872)


View from the Artist's Studio in the Alservorstadt toward Dornbach, 1836



Léon Cogniet (French, 1794–1880)


The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome, 1817



Léon Matthieu Cochereau (French, 1793–1817)


The Artist in His Studio, ca. 1812–15



Martinus Rørbye (Danish, 1803–1848)


View from the Artist's Window, 1825



This exhibition focuses on a subject treasured by the Romantics: the view through an open window. German, French, Danish, and Russian artists first took up the theme in the second decade of the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing near and far, the window is a metaphor for unfulfilled longing. Painters distilled this feeling in pictures of hushed, spare rooms with contemplative figures; studios with artists at work; and open windows as the sole motif. As the exhibition reveals, these pictures may shift markedly in tone, yet they share a distinct absence of the anecdote and narrative that characterized earlier genre painting.




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April's quiz results




Well, here's the much awaited results to April's quiz:
and the carnation is..... (symphonic music in the background)


 In  A Vase of Flowers, painted by Siméon Chardin, the XVIII century painter, around 1750
Here's a link to the National Galleries of Scotland, where it is exhibited: LINK

"The white and blue colouring of some of the flowers and foliage echoes those of the vase, complemented by the pinks, reds and touches of yellow in the other blooms. The subtle play of light and shadow distinguishes the table from the background and its sombre tones are relieved by the colourful fallen flowers"




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