During a 2011 trip to Venice , I visited Palazzo Grassi’s exhibition “The World belongs to you” where I saw
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Κατηγορία: art
Harakiri School Girls: by Makoto Aida
“It is spirit, not painting” Makoto Aida Makoto Aida’s work “Harakiri School Girls” is a composition that recurs in the
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Thomas Schütte’s “Großer Geist Nr. 13”
Geist can mean zeitgeist, the Holy Spirit, a powerful mind, clergyman or ghost, and is used to describe the science
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Thomas Schutte’s “United Enemies”
Thomas Schutte is one of my favourite modern sculptors. Back in 2012 I visited his exhibition “Faces and Figures” in
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Chillida: Gruss an (Hommage à) Heidegger
Δοκεί δε μέτα τι είναι και χαλεπόν ληφθήναι ο τόπος “It appears, however, to be something overwhelming and hard to
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Eduardo Chillida Installation: Comb of the Winds, San Sebastian
“Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.”
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Woman Combing/Braiding/Arranging/Caressing her Hair
Originally published in 2009. Revised on 28 May 2024. This is a post about pictures depicting a woman / women
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Edouard Manet: Boats and Ships
From the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France. Most of them are not on display. Edouard Manet, Marine,
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Sailing boat
Saronic Gulf, near Piraeus, Greece. Sunday, 2nd April 2023
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