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

Het Rokin te Amsterdam



Het Rokin te Amsterdam, George Hendrik Brietner 

Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Blue Dress


The Blue Dress, Kees Von Dongen

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Monday, February 23, 2015

The Nightmare



The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Isabella d'Este


Isabella d'Este, Leonardo da Vinci. The recently found painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Lady with an Ermine:


Lady with an Ermine, Leonardo da Vinci



Managed to see it last week; equally engrossing as his other women. This also means I have seen all of four Vinci's women. 

Friday, February 06, 2015

Die Skatspieler




Skat Players, 1920, Otto Dix.

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





Devant le théâtre du Vaudeville, Paris, 1900, Jean Béraud

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Cat and Bird


Cat and Bird, Paul Klee, 1928

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.

Friday, May 30, 2014

Christ among the Doctors



A very clever piece by Albrecht Dürer, 1506.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Rapids on the Nakabusa River

Rapids on the Nakabusa River, Yoshida Hiroshi

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Salome dancing before Herod



Salome dancing before Herod : Gustave Moreau, 1875




Saturday, May 10, 2014

Berlin Street Scene



Berlin Street Scene, Ernst Kirchner 

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Cows



Anton Braith,  ( Sometime during 1874 - 1894)

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Three Women in Church






Three Women in Church, Wilhelm Leibl

Monday, March 17, 2014

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Painting with two balls






Painting with Two Balls, Jasper Johns

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