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).