L ouvrier otto dix biography

  • The painting was bought by Torajiro Kojima following his visit to Frédéric's Studio in 1923.
  • Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969) Watercolor on cardboard.
  • Elsewhere, there was modernity within war, even against war: Otto Dix shone the light on a pile of dead men, on the living, a heap of the living dead, of flares.

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    Exhibition dates: 18th October 2016 – 15th January 2017

    Curator: Georges Didi-Huberman, philosopher and art historian

     

     

    Hiroji Kubota (Japanese, b. 1939)
    Black Panthers in Chicago, Illinois
    1969
    Gelatin silver print
    © Hiroji Kubota/Magnum Photos

     

     

    soulèvement m ‎(pluralsoulèvements)

    1/ the act of raising, the act of lifting up
    2/ revolt, uprising

     

    I believe this to be one of the most complex, original and important exhibitions of 2016. Conceptually, intellectually, ethically and artistically, the exhibition “Soulèvements / Uprisings” seems to stand head and shoulders above most others I posted on during 2016.

    Through the profound curatorship of philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman (a man whose writing I admire), Soulèvements e/merges as a “trans-disciplinary exhibition on the theme of human gestures that raise up the world or rise up against it: collective or individual gestures, acti

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    Having looked at his Realism/Naturalism works in my previous blog, in this, the second of my blogs about the nineteenth century Belgian artist, Léon Frédéric, I want to concentrate on his work as a Symbolist painter.

    Léon Frédéric has been designated as a Symbolist painter and yet when I look at all his work only some of it seems to fall into that category, whilst other of his paintings tended towards realism, but today it is all about his Symbolist art. I think probably the best way of starting the discussion is to specify what Symbolism means as far as art is concerned. Symbolism was a late nineteenth century anti-materialist and anti-rationalist movement. It was a type of art which rejected the authentic representation of the natural world, as seen in impressionism, realism, and naturalism, which was spurned in favour of imaginary dream worlds in which we may see strange figures from literature, the bible, and Greek mythology. It was art which focused upon the erotic and mysti

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    Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

    French architect and author

    Not to be confused with Violette Leduc.

    Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

    Photograph by Nadar

    Born

    Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc


    (1814-01-27)27 January 1814

    Paris, France

    Died17 September 1879(1879-09-17) (aged 65)

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    NationalityFrench
    OccupationArchitect
    AwardsRoyal Gold Medal (1864)

    Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French:[øʒɛnvjɔlɛlədyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne, and Roquetaillade castle in the Bordeaux region.

    His writings on decoration and on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a fundamental influence on a whole new ge

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