— and you’ll have to relate to the picture as a poem an image of an image: Jeff Wall: After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue, 1999-2000 (my image is shot at the exhibition Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996-2013 at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, which I visited in the spring of 2014) In the following video…
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art & affect
continuing my research on the importance of art – RECAPITULATING (Oh, I know – some of you are more than sick and tired of this, if you are amongst the exhausted ones; please visit again later!) Here we go: I went to Alain de Botton, I read his book and visited his exhibition, and even went public…
The Art of Losing Yourself
Participation – What I hoped to find in Alain de Botton’s exhibition in Amsterdam was a new way of introducing art to a general public. A way of communication which didn’t totally ridicule the art in question trough overly simplification, but which would make it possible, also for non-experts, to discover the abundance of art….
art is not therapy
Last week I went to Amsterdam to see and review Alain de Botton and John Armstrong’s exhibition “Art is Therapy” at the Rijksmuseum. The immediate result of my trip was a review written and published in the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet. (A weekly, national newspaper focused on culture, politics & arts). For 7 years I have…
«Art is Therapy»
– here is the result from the Norwegian jury; my review of Alain de Botton & John Armstrong’s exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – now on print in Morgenbladet (Norwegian weekly newspaper) (a resume in English will follow tomorrow)
amsterdam
Home is where my books are –
Jacob Marrel
One bloom was more popular than any other in the Golden Age: the tulip. Originally Turkish, this flower was so popular that numerous albums were made of its many varieties, depicted in detail in watercolour and body colour. One of the most famous albums, which featured this picture, was by Jacob Marrel. Beside each flower he gave the name of the…
First steps
Vincent van Gogh was greatly influenced by the French J-F Millet. So much so that he copied several of his artworks. It is very interesting to see how true van Gogh is to the original, yet he also manages to make his own version into something totally new, very van-gogh’ish … First Steps, after Millet, Vincent…
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