Kunstvaria

Posted on december 20, 2021 by Argusvlinder

December is altijd al dé maand geweest om
weer even extra aandacht te schenken aan kunst.
Vandaar een redelijk grote selectie vandaag.

Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerpen, 1601.

Vermoedelijk weten niet veel mensen dat de schilder Edvard Munch ook een fotograaf van het eerste uur was. Edvard Munch, self-portrait wearing glasses and seated before two watercolors at Ekely. Circa 1930. Gelatin silver contact print.

Elisabetta Sirani, Portia wounding her thigh, 1664, oil on canvas.

Gobardhan Ash, Irani, 1950. Gouache on silk cloth.

Nog een soort van fotopionier: James van der Zee, self-portrait, 1931. Gelatin silver print.

Jawlensky, Frauenkopf mit Blumen im Haar, circa 1913. Oil on board.

Louise Bourgeois, Ode à ma mère, 1995, drypoint.

Mimmo Paladino, Mattinate – Puglia Suite No 7, 2011. Water colour with collage.

Rodney Smith, Three men with shears, no 1. Reims, France, 1997.

Ryan Hewett, H2, 2021. Oil on canvas.

Simone Pheulpin, Triptyque, 2020, cotton.

Yashua Klos, The generosity of a hand with no work to do, 2021. Woodblock prints, muslin, paper collage, spray paint and Japanese rice paper on stretched canvas.

Ik geef het je op een briefje

Posted on september 2, 2021 by Argusvlinder

In de kunstvaria van vandaag zitten verhoudingsgewijs
veel werken op papier.
Vandaar de titel.

Wolfgang Stuber, Saint Jerome in his study, circa 1580. Engraving on paper.

Edward Bell, Bowie in Scary Monsters make up. Colour print.

Genesis Tramaine, Jesus loves me: Still, 2021. Acrylic oilsticks, oil pastels, gouache, acrylic ink spray paint. Komt bekend voor?

Jean Dubuffet, Site avec 5 personnages, 8.8.1981. Acrylic on paper on canvas.

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Charles William Lambton, 1825. The Red Boy.

Kunstvaria

Posted on juli 14, 2021 by Argusvlinder

Wel een hééél korte kunstvaria deze keer: één werk.

Sam Doyle, Sailboat, circa 1960s, house paint on metal.

Kunstvaria

Posted on juni 22, 2021 by Argusvlinder

Albert York, Still life green apples, oil on canvas.

Eileen Agar, Dance of peace, 1945. Collage and gouache on paper.

Frederick Childe Hassam, Church procession Spanish steps, 1883.

Kazunori Hamana, Untitled, 2021, ceramic. Hierbij moest ik meteen denken aan de vaas zonder bodem die hier pas nog te zien was van Yeung Yuk-Kan. De tegenstelling kon niet groter zijn want hier geeft de bodem zelfs een functie gekregen.

Wayne Thiebaud, Candy apples, 1987.

Kunstvaria

Posted on juni 16, 2021 by Argusvlinder

Ferdinand Hodler, Portrait of Clara Pasche-Battié, 1914, oil on canvas.

Vandaag weer eens een Kunstvaria.
Een serie kunstwerken die ik onlangs zag op Internet
en die ik interessant of mooi vond.

Yinka Shonibare, Hybrid mask (Banda), 2020 – 2021. Hand painted wooden mask.

Ashley Bryan, Sea calm (From Sail Away), 2015.

Jan Davidsz. de Heem, A banquet still life. Signed ‘jd de heem’.

Louise Bourgeois, Spider IV, 1996, steel. Wall piece.

Kunstvaria

Posted on december 30, 2020 by Argusvlinder

El Anatsui, In the world but don’t know the world, 2009, aluminum and copper wire.

Félix Vallotton, The Lie, 1897, oil on artist’s board.

George Grosz, Metrópolis, 1916 – 1917 (detail). Oil on canvas.

Nainsukh of Guler, The Trumpeters, 1735 – 1740.

Salman Toor, Man with face creams and phone plug, 2019.

Kunstvaria

Posted on december 13, 2020 by Argusvlinder

Cleve Gray, Roman Wall (Blue), 1979. Roman Wall series. Mixed media on paper.

Suzuki Goro, Bento box Goribe, 2019, stoneware.

Attributed to Aqa Mirak, Book cover, Iran, third quarter of the sixteenth century. Watercolor, gold-colored pigments, lacquer on pasteboard.

Ferdinand Hodler, Lake Thun and the Niesen, 1912 – 1913, oil on canvas.

Een week van kunstnieuws samengevat in vier beelden.

Kunstvaria (een heel korte aflevering)

Posted on april 23, 2020 by Argusvlinder

Angel Botello, Three Children, oil on masonite (hardboard).

Eugene Delacroix, Hercules and Hippolyte, study for a lunette of The Salon de la Paix, oil on canvas.

Serena Perrone, A volcano pilgrim in exchange for fire. Drypoint, gouache, monotype, screen print and letterpress on paper.

Kunstvaria

Posted on september 3, 2019 by Argusvlinder

Voor het eerst sinds lange tijd weer eens een Kunstvaria.

Calvin Benjamin Grinnell, Running Elk, Mandan Hidatsa Arikara of een oorspronkelijke bewoner van Amerika. Plate No 287, 3 september 2017, modern wet plate.

Dorothea Lange, Residents awaiting evacuation to assembly centers, Oakland, 1942. Archival pigment print.

Frans Hals, Regentesses of the old mens alms house. Circa 1664. Oil on canvas, Frans Hals Museum.

Icon with the Koimesis (de dood van Maria), Corfu. 17th Century, British Museum.

Jim Campbell, Repixelated 2, 2017. Custom electronics, 300 LEDs, aluminum and Acrylic. Edition of 3.

Dit vind ik helemaal super. Zo’n voorwerp had ik eerder niet gezien. Een Boeddgistische gebedsdoos. Tibetan copper gau or prayer box with cloth case. 20th century. Used as personal shrine for traveling. Tibetan Buddhism. Typically worn as ornament during festivals. Kept in prayer niche in family home.

William Eggleston, Morals of vision, 1978. Artists book. Edition of 15 illustrated with 8 chromogenic prints.

Kunstvaria: Ceci n’est pas une pipe

Posted on januari 6, 2019 by Argusvlinder

Antwerp master, circa 1610 – 1615. A study of the head of a monk looking upwards. Oil on panel

René Magritte, La clef des songes (De sleutel van dromen), 1927. Oil on canvas.

Zhang Daqian, Water and sky gazing after rain in splashed color, 1968, ink and color on paper. Horizontal scroll.

Funerary relief of a woman, Palmyra, Syria, 200 – 273 CE, limestone.

Relief carving of an apsara, Northern Wei Dynasty, 386 to 534, AD, limestone.

Kunstvaria

Posted on januari 4, 2019 by Argusvlinder

Chen Nong, Scenes of reflections, #9, 2017.

Super! Emil Nolde, Hohe See unter violettem Himmel, 1930 – 1935, watercolor.

Hans Sebald Beham, Lot and his daughters, circa 1530, engraving on laid paper.

Jeff Sonhouse, Rhetoric reflux, 2017, oil, glass, paperclip and precision blades on fiberboard with artist’s frame.

Coptische kunst: Textile roundel with dove, Egypt, 5th – 6th century CE, wool on linen.

De eerste kunstvaria in het nieuwe jaar

Posted on januari 2, 2019 by Argusvlinder

Van Adrian Ghenie zag ik een tentoonstelling in Malaga.Heel erg de moeite waard. Adrian Ghenie, The picnic, 2015, oil on canvas.

Wim Delvoye, Maserati 2012, embossed aluminium.

Patrick Berran, Untitled, 2017, acrylic and toner on paper.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Picture of the Battle of Odai Castle in Shinano Province, 1868, woodblock printed triptych.

André Kertész, Nageur sous l’eau (Zwemmer onder water), Esztergom, Hongarije, 1917, photo.

Kunst in plaats van vuurwerk of oliebollen

Posted on december 31, 2018 by Argusvlinder

Nog een kunstvaria op de laatste dag van het jaar.

Amir Zaki, Parent and child, 2017, ultrachrome print.

Carel Wirtz (executed by Atelier Hubert Fermin), Three fold room divider ‘Flower Queen’, 1902, teak, embroidered silk.

The Lindau Gospels, France, circa 875.

Joanna Boyce Wells, Thou bird of God, 1861.

Shen Zhou, Landscape of Suzhou. Sceneries (detail), 1484 – 1504, ink and color on paper.

Kunstvaria met Charles Dickens

Posted on december 25, 2018 by Argusvlinder

Charles Dickens, handgeschreven en ondertekende quote uit A Christmas Carol: “And so – as Tiny Tim observed – God bless us, every one! Knebworth, Tuesday (dinsdag) eighteenth June 1861 (18 juni 1861).

Corrine Colarusso, Blue Diamond, 2016, acrylic on canvas.

Filippo Parodi, Sleeping Christ child, circa 1675, marble.

Giovanni Bonazza, Allegory of Winter, circa 1710.

Henry Moore, Mother and child, 1942, pencil and watercolour.

Kunstvaria

Posted on december 23, 2018 by Argusvlinder

Dana Powell, Night drivers, 2018. Oil on linen.

Frank Stella, Iola Three IV (Circuit Series), 1984, relief-printed etching and woodcut in colors on handmade paper.

Pablo Picasso, Le Matador, oil on canvas. Painted 23 October 1970.

Unknown photographer, Portrait of an unidentified pair of prospectors, ferrotype. Circa 1860.

Zhang Daqian, The lotus pond, 1967, ink and colors on paper.

Kunstvaria

Posted on december 19, 2018 by Argusvlinder

Deze dagen met Kerstmis en Nieuwjaar lenen
zich prima voor een serie Kunstvaria blogs.
Geeft rust bij het kijken en geeft mij rust in deze periode.

Nou ja, niet alle kunst geeft rust: Ad van Denderen, Abu Dis Westelijke Jordaanoever, 2003.

Utagawa Yoshiiku, Picture book store from the Series Souvenirs of Edo, 1861, Ukiyo-e woodblock print, ink and color on paper.

JMW Turner, Walton Bridges, 1806, oil on canvas.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1615 – 1617.

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola), The head of a young man, about 1539 – 1540, pen and brown ink.

Kunstvaria

Posted on december 3, 2018 by Argusvlinder

Pierre Bonnard, Femmes à la fenêtre, circa 1895.

Ansel Adams, Nevada Falls Rainbow, 1946.

Thomas Gainsborough, Study of mallows, mid to late-1750s. Graphite with stumping on paper with gum fixative.

Ping Zheng, Sad season of sensation, 2017, oil stick on paper.

Kunstvaria

Posted on december 1, 2018 by Argusvlinder

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Flight into Egypt, oil on canvas, circa 1920 – 1925. Een prachtig begin van de maand december.

Osias Beert the Elder (circa 1580, Antwerp, 1624). Still life with flowers in a woven basket and a bouquet in a glass vase on a table top with dragonfly, oil on panel. Van deze schilder had ik eerder nog nooit gehoord. Beetje rommelige compositie.