Upon leaving the National Gallery’s 1250-1400 collection, The Magdalen Reading[1], c.1438, by Rogier van der Weyden caught my attention. The close-up, even claustrophobic, view of a woman reading surrounded by cropped figures contradicted my understanding of the composition and subject matter common for Early Netherlandish religious scenes, normally depicting several full figures. Indeed, this obscurity in the […]
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Vendredi 4 Décembre 2020 « Reste-t-il encore quelque chose à découvrir en voyageant ? » On vit dans un monde de reproductions. Entourés, submergés, étouffés par les images d’art reproduites depuis la naissance de la photographie, on existe dans une époque de reproduction digitale d’art sans âme. La visite aux musées et l’appréciation vis-à-vis de l’art est la […]
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The Mystery of Yves Tanguy
Tanguy conjures expansive, non-representative, surreal landscapes. Within the composition, carefully placed shapes interact and allude to the human form, such as the group of towering grey figures in the left hand side of There, Motion has Not Yet Ceased. They appear to be threatened by the candy-cane coloured spear and you can distinguish a figure […]
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Automatic Drawing
Sexuality, desire and violence dominate the Surrealist’s mission to liberate the subconscious and embrace the irrational. In a beautiful, paradoxical way, the surrealists turn the intangible inner psyche empirical through heavy symbolism, écriture, juxtaposition of objects and so forth, such as Dalí’s recurring use of draws to represent the memories that can be locked away […]
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