Please, pray for peace!
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Oekraiense kunst
Radical – Women artists and modernism, Arnhem
Titles like the above are eyecatchers, at least for art historians who happen to be women. Since the early 1990s I was among the eager travellers to Cologne and other European cities to see solo exhibitions of Lyubov Popova (1889-1924) and other modernists. I love it to this day. Traditionally however, museums show art works
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De Theotokos van Kasperovo
Deze Eleousa-icoon is verwant aan de Kyivse Korsunskaja-icoon (tiende/twaalfde eeuw) en kwam in 1809 in het bezit van mevrouw Iuliania Ionivna Kasperova, die een landgoed in Kasperovo in de oblast Cherson bewoonde. De icoon bevond zich toen al ruim twee eeuwen in dit Zuid-Oekraïense dorp en was afkomstig uit Transsylvanië (Centraal- Roemenië). Mevrouw Kasperova bad
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Polina Raiko Museum flooded
When does the madness stop? How on earth can one commit an ecocide of this magnitude? In a war zone and a period of climate crisis? Why this collapse of the Khakovka dam on June 6th 2023? Why start a war at all, instead of addressing the call of nature? Without any former training,
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Sunflowers of Ukraine
The Ukrainian folk arist Mariia Prymachenko (1908-1997) naturally respected Mother Earth. She was a champion of peace (see blogpost 17 March 2022) and enjoyed to share the harvest of the fertile soil of the Ukraine with the rest of the world. She entitled one of her art work as follows: May I give this Ukrainian
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Sofia’s Orante in Kiev
Boven Kievs Orante-mozaiek in de Sofiakathedraal staat de volgende inscriptie: “God is in haar midden, zij zal niet wankelen; God zal haar helpen bij het aanbreken van de morgen.” (Psalm 46: 5) Voor meer informatie, zie het artikel “Kievs Heilige Sofiakathedraal”, Eikonikon. Tijdschrift over iconen, no. 126, 2015, pp. 15-16: https://www.eikonikon.nl/bulletin/2015/kievs-heilige-sofia-kathedraal/
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Destruction & Solidarity. Kuindzhi Museum, Mariupol
Join a workshop by Ukrainian artists on 2 April 2022, W139, Amsterdam Twelve years ago, the Kuindzhi Art Museum opened in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 2010. It was named after the famous landscape painter Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1841-1910), but also preserves works of other well-known landscapists such as his short lived teacher Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900), Ivan
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Prymachenko: Make art, no war!
These three pictures posthumously give voice to the pacifist folk artist Mariia Prymachenko (1908-1997). She was born in a peasant family in a village in the Kiev region. As a young girl her eye was caught by wild flowers in a field, and she started drawing real and imaginary flowers beside of it, in the
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