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Category Archives: Art
Blue Woman
Magritte It is all image, color, dreaming, mind. It feels so natural.To me.
Venus von Willendorf
Interesting info from Janson History of Art (2nd edition 1977)… “Stone Age men were content to collect pebbles, as well as less durable specimens, in whose natural shape they saw something that rendered them ‘magic’; echoes of this approach can … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Images, Magical, Sculpture
Tagged Janson, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Venus of Willendorf
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Reading in Silence
Series: Favorite Paintings Catena Saint Jerome in his Study from the National Gallery Standing alone before St Jerome. Wandering through the National Gallery in London, I am always looking for my favorite paintings. One of them is St Jerome in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Paintings
Tagged Art, Catena, Italian Renaissance, Looking, National Gallery, Paintings, Reading, St Jerome, Venetian School
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The Woman I recognized at Champmol.
Some years ago, I visited Champmol in Dijon, the grounds of the old monastery of Chartreuse de Champmol, today a psychiatric hospital. I made the journey just for visiting the sculptures of Claus Sluter. After some rather heavy traffic, I drove … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture
Tagged Art, Champmol, Claus Sluter, Looking, Memories, Northern Renaissance
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Meeting Jan Six and Rembrandt
Last week, after a troublesome journey, I arrived at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. After some queuing up in the rain I was going at once to Jan Six. There he was, with his beautiful red coat. I liked him at … Continue reading
