ART

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
The Church
In Auvers-sur-Oise,
View of the Chevet
1890

Between his arrival in Auvers-sur-Oise on 21 May 1890 and death on 29 July, Van Gogh painted some seventy pictures. There is only one painting of the gothic church in the village, Van Gogh opted for a low - angle view of the chevet. The ustabil lines and brushstrokes accentuate the impression that the scene is distorted. The use of light in the scene is contradictory. The foreground is brightly lit, but the church is silhouetted against a cobalt blue back ground suggesting a stormy sky or night time.

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Ambrosius Bosscharts the elder.
(1573 - 1621 Dutch)

Bouquet of Flowers in a Stone niche. 1618

Exotix flowers, conch shells, and seashells from the depths of the ocean testify to the trade in goods from the colonies. The increasing affluence of the Dutch merchant class helped create the basis for a range of new mundane, rather than religious, motifs introduced on the Dutch art market in the 17th century. Boss chaerts was among the first artists to treat flowers as a distinkt theme within the still genre.
He founded a dynasty of painters who continued his style of floral and fruit painting and turned Middelburg into the leading centre for flower painting in the Dutch Republic.
In the 17th century still lifes were often assoiated with moralising undertones. For example, the multicoloured tulip - the bulbs of which were highly expencive investment objects - was a favourite memento mori; a reminder of the brevity of life.

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Boleslaw Biegas, (Polich, 1877 - 1954)
Chopin 1902
Bronze

The works of the Polich skulptor Boleslaw Biegas attracted the attention of the French critics, particularly his major work Chopin.
Here, Biegas Pays tribute to the romantic composer with a monumental vision, in a work sculpted with twisting, art nouveau - like lines. Faces and hands appear like spirits that shoot up out of the material and envelop
the pianist in a kind of swirling storm. At the time, Biegas' sculptures were completly avant-garde and attracted a greath deal of attention, to such an extent that the greath sculptor of the era, Auguste Rodin, sought out his Polish colleague.

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Keith Haring (1958 - 1990)

Untitled (BOXERS) 1987
Daimler kunst sammlung.
Berlin.

Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s.
Haring's work grew to popularity from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways—chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images-on blank black advertising-space backgrounds.After public recognition he created larger scale works, such as colorful murals, many of them commissioned.His imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". His later work often addressed political and societal themes.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

The drapery of a kneeling figure c. 1491 - 94.
(detail)

In april 1483 Leonardo was commissioned to paint an alterpiece, now know as the Virgin of the Rocks, for a church in Milan. A first version (Louvre, Paris) was not delivered, for uncertain reasons; instead he began a second version (National Gallery, London) in the early 1490s, which was finally installed in 1508. This is the study for the Angel's drapery in the second painting.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

The Virgin and the child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist (The Burlington House Cartoon). About 1499 - 1500

The Virgin Mary sits on the lap of her mother, Saint Anne. The Christ child bless his cousin Saint John the Baptist (the child to the right).
This large drawing is a cartoon, that is, a life-size preparatory study for a painting. In order to transfer a design onto a panel, the outlines of cartoons were usually pricked or incised. This complex and atmospheric drawing remains intact. It must have been preserved in its own right as a finished drawings, although some areas have deliberately been left inconclusive or in rough outline.

Leonardo left Milan in 1499, shortly after french troops invaded the city, and returned to Florence. The Burlington House cartoon dates to this turbulent period. Leonardo is known to have made several life-size works on paper (often called cartoons), but this is the only such drawing to survive.

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The Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art in France. It is located in Paris in the Centre Pompidou. It is among the most visited art museums in the world. The museum has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe from the 20th- and 21th - century, with more than 100,000 works of art by 6,400 artists from 90 countries the collection begins in with Fauvism in 1905.

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1. Claude Monet ( 1840 - 1926)
Chrysanthémes 1897.
Private Collection

2. Claude Monet
Massif de chrysanthémes 1897.
Kunstmuseum Basel

3. Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894)
Chrysanthémes blance et jaunes, 1893.
Paris, musée Marmottan-Monet

Chrysanthémums are much in vogue in late 19th century Europa, celebrated fore fore there bright colours and late flowering season. The painting by Caillebotte was owned by Monet for over thirty years and inspired his own Chrysanthémum compositions.

Monet pays tribute to Gustave Caillebotte from whom, shortly after the artist's death, he received the Chrysanthémes 1893 on display here.

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Otto Dix
Erinnerungen an die Spiegelsäle von Brüssel,
1920

The explosion into multiple facets borrowed from Cubism is used to present an ironie and trivial vision of the post-war society.

ln the style of a characteristic Dadaist caricature, Otto Dix reflects on the scandalous character of the war when German officers frequented cafes transformed into brothels. Half-man, half-automat, an apoplectic general is represented drinking champagne and fondling a generously endowed woman.The multiple mirrors reflecting different points of view reveal the anatomy of the pr******te.

Otto Dix (1891 - 1969)
Was a German painter and printmaker. He is best known for his brutal but honest depictions of the atrocities of World War I and the bourgeois decadence of the interwar Weimar Republic. He is considered one of the most important painters in the The new reality (Die neue Sachlichkeit).

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Jean dubuffet (1901- 1985)
Bel Costumé, 1973
Epoxy resin, polyurethane paint and galvanised steel.

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Pablo Picasso
Buste de femme 1907

This preparatory study brings together the different sources that would lead Picasso to Cubism.
Pablo Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (New York, Museum of Modern Art) in 1907, puzzling his entourage with its formal radicality. For this painting, he made a number of painted or drawn studies in which he radicalised his formal language. In this one, the treatment of the garment with large prominent volumes reflects the influence of Cézanne, whereas this woman's face, reduced to an oval mask with a triangular shaped nose, testifies to the influence of Iberian art and of the African masks he discovered in the Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadéro in Paris.

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The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. The museum is most famous for eight large Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet, and also contains works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaïm Soutine, Maurice Utrillo, and others.
The building has not always had works of art. In fact, it was built in 1852 by architect Firmin Bourgeois (1786 - 1853) to protect the orange trees that decorate the garden of the Tuileries Palace in winter.
The new building that Emperor Napoleon III wanted was built on the terrace of the garden bordering the Seine, known as the "terrace at the water's edge".

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