2017年10月31日 星期二

Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel

1512年的今天,米开朗琪罗在西斯廷教堂天顶绘制的壁画首次向公众开放。
1512年的今天,米开朗琪罗在西斯廷教堂天顶绘制的壁画首次向公众开放。 Plinio Lepri/Associated Press
你有没有在资历不符的时候,就获得了一份工作?
职业雕塑家米开朗基罗就遇到过,当时他在梵蒂冈西斯廷教堂在天花板作画,这一作品是在1512年的今天首次面向公众开放的。
受教皇儒略二世(Julius II)所托,米开朗基罗花了四年时间在天花板上作画,该作品有130英尺长(约合40米)、45英尺宽(约合14米)。(你可在这里进行虚拟游览。)
 米开朗基罗当时深信自己会失败,他在一开始就变得爱妄想,在结束时健康状况一塌糊涂。他写了一首诗,开头是这样的
“从这场折磨中,我患上了甲状腺肿
在这里像伦巴第的猫一样弓着背
(或是其他死水流毒的地方)”
天花板上中心的作品是《创世纪》(Creation of Adam),那是圣经《创世纪》中的九个场景之一。
这一壁画在现代只有过一次修复需求,那是在上世纪八九十年代,但每年超过500万人参观带来的影响还是引发了一些担忧
这幅壁画之所以大受欢迎是可以理解的。就像德国作家约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)注意到的那样:“没到过西斯廷教堂的人,无法了解一个人的能力能有多大。”

Quotes on Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel[edit]

"Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving."
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 23 August 1787, [31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel

Henri Matisse et Teriade




Teriade 特里德: Verve, and His Great Books


2017年10月30日 星期一

"Stonehenge" by Jasper Cropsey:a technique called pouncing

Tonight's Art Moment is "Stonehenge" by Jasper Cropsey. This view of England's most famous prehistoric site is based on sketches Cropsey made during a tour of Europe 27 years earlier. The painting's warm palette and relatively loose brushwork create a moody, romantic glow. Stonehenge is part of a series Cropsey executed of Old World ruins, which remained popular subjects among 19th-century American collectors. Cropsey employed a technique called pouncing so that he could use drawings as guides for a painting. Tiny holes are pricked into the paper along the drawn lines and then the paper is placed over the canvas. The pricked drawing is rubbed with charcoal, leaving transferred dotted lines on the surface below. The remnants of Cropsey's method are only visible under infrared light. On view in Gallery 216.

2017年10月28日 星期六

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens, Philip Horne (Introducer) (Notes by); Colour illustrations from 1911 edition of Oliver Twist - The British Library

George Cruikshank




Dickens and Cruikshank. Cruikshank had previously provided illustrations for Dickens's 1836 work Sketches by Boz, but although his illustrations for Oliver Twist were similarly excellent and true to the nature of the novel, he did not illustrate any more of Dickens's work.

Colour illustrations from 1911 edition of Oliver Twist - The British Library
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/colour-illustrations-from-1911-edition-of-oliver-twist



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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens, Philip Horne (Introducer), Philip Horne (Notes by)


Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55733/oliver-twist/#HduBYVhsj5TK7DcI.99





Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.


This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany, and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations. Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012.


His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.If you enjoyed Oliver Twist, you may like Nicholas Nickleby and Little Dorrit, also available in Penguin Classics. 'His novels will endure as long as the language itself';Peter Ackroyd'He is our greatest novelist - every reread reveals more riches';Melvyn Bragg'When Dickens has once described something you see it for the rest of your life';George Orwell

Penguin Classics
Published 27th March 2003
608 Pages
129mm x 198mm x 26mm
415g
£6.99

2017年10月27日 星期五

2017年10月25日 星期三

Musée Picasso. Le Musée Picasso de Vallauris abrite deux œuvres de Picasso La Guerre et La Paix,

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In 1949, the Man with Sheep sculpture, donated by Picasso to the city, is installed in the unused chapel: the idea is born, then, to paint this place but it is really revived only in 1951, when the 70th birthday of Picasso is celebrated in the chapel.

The genesis of War and Peace is part of a twofold context, political and artistic: political because Picasso, then a member of the Communist Party, is vice-president of the World Committee for Peace and Artistic because, as Claude Roy has underlined "Picasso would not be sorry to have his turn". Indeed, the creations of Matisse for the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence and those of Chagall for the Chapel of Our Lady of All-Graces of Assy have created an emulation in which Picasso takes part. However, unlike the two painters, Picasso excluded any religious character to his project and designs the decor of a Temple of Peace.

If the realization is fast, it is preceded by 300 preparatory drawings between April and September 1952. Picasso realizes his work for the vestibule of the chapel, whose entry was, at the time, the opposite of the current one. Thus, the starting point of the work is discovered from this old point of entry.

Unlike other "political" paintings by Picasso, this work is not linked to a specific historical event but it is part of a certain timelessness. At first, the visitor sees the War, personified by an anonymous figure who is the first image that has imposed on Picasso, that of "the lanky and bumpy race of one of these provincial hearses". The Warrior of Peace, carrying the attributes of Justice, stops this advance. On his shield is painted the dove, which Picasso had made on the posters of peace movements the communist symbol of Peace, before it became its universal symbol. Under the dove, one sees in transparency, the Face of the Peace, that of Françoise Gilot which was covered with a semi-transparent glaze. This character marks the transition between the two panels. In the second panel, Peace, is initially represented as the resumption of life: the mother breastfeeding her child, the fire that nourishes, the creation / the writing, in opposition in the themes and in the pictorial treatment with the figures of the War sign. Picasso, with Peace, fears falling into banality. This is why in the second part of the panel, Peace is represented as a utopia but a utopia based on a fragile balance.

War and Peace is composed of 18 isorel panels, screwed on a cradle-frame in curved wood. The isorel was chosen for its flexibility qualities. Scaffolding had been set up at Fournas to paint the panels flat. The work was completed in December 1952 but it will not be permanently installed in the chapel until 1954. In fact, in 1953, all the "political" works (Guernica, 1937, the Charnier, 1945, Massacre in Korea, 1951) by Picasso are exhibited in Italy. In 1956, Picasso offered the panels to the French State. The following year, the chapel becomes national museum. The third panel, which condemns access to the old gateway, is painted, in a different bill, in 1958. The official inauguration takes place, on September 19, 1959, in the absence of Picasso.

Picasso's last political work, War and Peace, is an eminent expressive work, but it is also a highly accomplished work in which Picasso, with perfect mastery of his art, plays on the effects of dullness and transparency as well as on technique. drops and giclures in opposition to the notion of "good-painting" of the Renaissance.



Musée Picasso (Vallauris)

Page d'aide sur l'homonymie Pour les articles homonymes, voir Musée Picasso et Temple de la Paix.

Entrée du musée Picasso de Vallauris.
Le Musée Picasso de Vallauris abrite deux œuvres de Picasso La Guerre et La Paix, installées dans la chapelle du château, place de la Libération, à VallaurisAlpes-Maritimes, depuis 1959.
Le choix par Picasso de la chapelle pour l'édification de son temple de la Paix s'inscrit dans un mouvement de redécouverte de l'art sacré, qui connaît un indéniable engouement dans les années 1950 : Matisseachève la décoration de la Chapelle du Rosaire de VenceChagall - ainsi que BonnardLégerGermaine Richier... - participe à la décoration de l'église Notre-Dame de Toute Grâce du Plateau d'Assy, et commence à travailler à son monumental Message Biblique, qu'il destine d'abord à une autre chapelle vençoise avant d'en faire don à l'État. Pablo Picasso, conscient du profond symbolisme du lieu et séduit par les rigoureuses proportions de l'austère bâtiment, choisit la chapelle du château de Vallauris. L'édifice ancien contribue à donner à La guerre et la Paix, avec ses évidentes références à l'art antique, voire à l'art rupestre, un ancrage sacré et universel.
« Il ne fait pas très clair dans cette chapelle, déclare l'artiste à Claude Roy, et je voudrais qu'on ne l'éclaire pas, que les visiteurs aient des bougies à la main, qu'ils se promènent le long des murs comme dans des grottes préhistoriques, découvrant les figures, que la lumière bouge sur ce que j'ai peint, une petite lumière de chandelle. »

ピカソ美術館 (ピカソびじゅつかん、Musée Picasso) は、フランス南部の地中海に近い都市ヴァロリスにある美術館。「戦争と平和 国立ピカソ美術館 (Musée National Picasso, La Guerre et La Paix)」 ともいう。

概要[編集]

ピカソ美術館は、フランス南部プロヴァンス=アルプ=コート・ダジュール地域圏アルプ=マリティーム県にある都市ヴァロリスにある国立美術館。画家パブロ・ピカソの代表作『戦争と平和』を所蔵することから、「戦争と平和 国立ピカソ美術館」ともいう。
美術館の建物はヴァロリス城と呼ばれ、12世紀に建造された女子修道院を、16世紀にルネサンス様式の城館に改築したものである [1][2]。建物内には、ピカソ美術館のほか、陶芸美術館マニエリ美術館が入っている。
ヴァロリスは、地中海に近い山あいにある陶芸の町で、ピカソは、1948年から1955年までこの地に滞在し、絵画、彫刻、陶器などの制作に励んだ [3]。ピカソの70歳の誕生日を祝福した町の人々に応えて、1952年、彼が制作した巨大な壁画が『戦争と平和』である [3]。『戦争と平和』は、美術館内にある礼拝堂のアーチ状の壁面に配置されている。

収蔵品[編集]

  • ピカソ 『戦争と平和』 - La Guerre et la Paix (1952年)
  • ピカソ 『世界の四つの部分』 - Les quatre parties du monde (1957年-1959年)

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Jakarta’s Berlin Wall – Teguh Ostenrik's ART to Overcome Divisive Powers

Teguh Ostenrik - Visual Artist from Indonesia created "Menembus Batas
(Transcending Limits)" using huge original slabs from the infamous Berlin Wall.
And yet the art installation is acutely relevant in the capital city of Jakarta, where divisive powers have had an impact as recently as the past governor’s election. (TEXT: Carla Bianpoen)
Four authentic sections of the Berlin Wall that had sat in the Teguh Ostenrik ’s storeroom for over 27 years were set up in the Park as part of the art…
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