Details of View of Delft, 1659-61, Mauritshuis To be seen during the Vermeer-exhibition in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until June 4th 2023. Thirty years ago it was on display during a well-visited retrospective exhibition in the Mauritshhuis in The Hague. Where will the next Vermeer-retrospective take place? In Vermeer’s hometown, Delft, thirty years from now? […]
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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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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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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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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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Vorige Volgende These pictures were made during an art history class about Italian futurism and Russian avant-garde art at the Wackers Academie in Amsterdam. Since this class was held on Women’s day, 8 March 2022, it was a perfect opportunity for me to bring Popova’s Spatial Force Constructions to the fore. Students and lecturer are
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