collecting colours over a cup of coffee...
If you are a lover of printed words, you would know how much of your time is taken by books alone. Then one day, sooner or later, you discover a huge vacuum within that you know next to nothing about other art forms. This blog is an attempt to fulfil one such lacunae in the art of painting. We intend to look up a random painting and upload it with a link here every day whilst having our daily cuppa coffee. In this way at least we hope to be better acquainted with colours, colourers and the schools than what we are now.If you wish to be a part, you know where to shout.
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Sunday, March 01, 2015
Saturday, February 28, 2015
The Blue Dress
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Sunil
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Labels: 1911, Dutch, Fauvism, French, Kees Von Dongen, Portrait, Women
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book
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Sunil
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Labels: 1888, Arles, French-Impressionism, Still-Life
Monday, February 23, 2015
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Friday, February 13, 2015
Friday, February 06, 2015
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Prager Straße
Prager Staße or the Prague Street, 1920, Otto Dix one of the great arts to come out of WW1. Dix, who was a first world war veteran, celebrated the idea of the war as a force - bravery that made the conflict and lack of bigotedness in it. This was in an age when wars were generally seen as an exercise of strength and will. However, over the next few years, upon witnessing the untold suffering and indignity imposed by the war, Dix began to transform his views and started painting scenes to capture its horror along with the social and political turmoil building within the post world war Germany.
Prague Street ( 1920) depicts a scene at the leading fashion street in Dresden, Germany. Before a glass showroom of a shop displaying mannequins,and artificial limbs, like in other Dix plantings, two grotesque and crippled veterans are shown begging. A woman dressed in apparent expensive pink outfit along with a dog walks past without glancing at them. A stray dog loiters in the corner.One of the boards, perhaps belonging to the veteran, displays a sign Juden Raus! ( Jews Out)
The painting though not exceptional in terms of technique or innovation of the age ( 20s) , it almost amounts to a photograph of political precision.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Devant le théâtre du Vaudeville, Paris
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Sunil
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Labels: French, Impressionism, Jean Beraud
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Sunday, January 18, 2015
The Last Judgement , Hieronymous Bosch One of the famous Bosch paintings that shows Bosch's unique skills and is consistent with the overall motif of his work. I just wanted the detail of the middle panel of the painting but could not locate it online, hence posting the whole triptych.
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Labels: 1482, Dutch, Hieronymus Bosch, Renaissance
Friday, May 30, 2014
Christ among the Doctors
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Sunil
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Labels: 1506, Albrecht Dürer, German, Religion, Renaissance, Spain.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Ideal Landscape with Trees
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Sunil
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Labels: 1849, Gottfried Keller, Landscape, Literature, Swiss, Watercolour
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Three Women in Church
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Sunil
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Labels: 1881, German, Munich School, Realism, Wilhelm Leibl
Monday, March 17, 2014
Thursday, March 06, 2014
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