December 21, 2011–March 18, 2012 Accompanied by a catalogue and an Audio Guide Gallery 699 It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. In keeping with this notion, early Renaissance Italy also hosted the first great age of portraiture in Europe. Portraiture assumed a new importance, whether it was to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘culture’
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Posted in Museums, Vernissages, tagged Antonello da Messina, art, Bologna, Botticelli, culture, Donatello, Ferrara, Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandaio, Giovanni Bellini, Leon Battista Alberti, Mantegna, Mantua, metropolitan, Milan, Naples, New York, pinting, Pisanello, Reinassance, roma, Rome, Urbino, Verrocchio on February 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
New world…brave ?
Posted in Art as a matter of life, Vernissages, tagged apocalipse, art, Cairo, cityscapes, culture, Egypt, emotions, new world, towns, urban on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Obsession, anxiety and over-caffeinated paranoia are the predominate tones in the compelling universe presented by artist and Egypt Independent reporter Ali Abdel Mohsen in “Razor-Sharp Teeth,” a solo show currently on view at Mashrabia Gallery. The series of ink drawings on cardboard flaps and flattened boxes makes a seductive case for the potential of contemporary [...]
Competition – Suburbia Transformed 2.0
Posted in Art as a matter of life, Vernissages, tagged architecture, art, cities, culture, landscape, Subirbia Transformed 2.0, towns, urban on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
EXPLORING THE AESTHETICS OF LANDSCAPE EXPERIENCE IN THE AGE OF SUSTAINABILITY AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR BUILT AND VISIONARY (UNBUILT) RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPES The Competition The goal of Suburbia Transformed 2.0 is to promote and celebrate residential designs that go beyond “green” by explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies to enrich the aesthetic spatial experience of [...]
Vacances romaines pour soixante œuvres du Guggenheim
Posted in Art as a matter of life, Vernissages, tagged art, culture, Guggenheim, Palazzo delle esposizioni, roma, Rome on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Soixante œuvres de grands artistes américains de l’après-guerre appartenant à la Fondation Guggenheim, dont des tableaux de Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko ou Andy Warhol, sont exposées jusqu’au 6 mai au palais des Expositions de Rome. L’exposition, intitulée « Le Guggenheim. L’avant-garde américaine, 1945-1980 », illustre les principaux courants artistiques de l’art américain de cette période [...]
Christie’s présente une exposition en hommage au critique d’art Michel Tapié
Posted in Vernissages, tagged art, Christie, culture, Georges Mathieu, Hans Hartung, Henri Michaux, Japon, Jean Dubuffet, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Kazuo Shiraga, Mark Tobey, Michel Tapié on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Initiative La maison d’enchères Christie’s expose à Paris pour un mois près de 70 œuvres, dont certaines sont à vendre, rendant hommage au travail de prospection artistique de Michel Tapié, qui fut une figure importante du monde de l’art des années 1940 à 1970. «Le but de l’exposition est de développer l’image de Christie’s comme [...]
Travels….Lebanon
Posted in Art as a matter of life, tagged art, culture, emotions, human, society, travel on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bacio by Haidji
Posted in Haidji, tagged art, arte, Artist, artista, beauty, cultura, culture, emotions, eo, foto, Fotos, Hidji, kiss, Kultur, Liebe, love, magic, passion, photos, sensations, souls, spirituality on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bacio Only a dream of a kiss a magic moment that arrives someday in everyones life when you don’t expect it to come ©2012 Haidji —————————————————————————————– Photography printed over sintetic tissue limited edition, signed Limited edition of 7 prints last prints available 43,5cm x 70cm Price : 800 Euros Contact : shop@prosumerzen.com P.S. If interested [...]
Jérôme Sans, ou l’art d’accompagner la création contemporaine
Posted in Vernissages, tagged art, art contemporaine, Beyrouth, creation, critique, culture, Jérôme Sans, Liban on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Par Zéna ZALZAL | 03/02/2012 Rencontre « La vie est un boomerang » s’exclame Jérôme Sans, en revenant sur son parcours de conservateur et critique d’art contemporain, ponctué de découvertes éclectiques et marqué du sceau de la cofondation, au début des années 2000, du Palais de Tokyo, à Paris. À Beyrouth, à l’occasion de l’exposition* [...]
Egyptian film star sentenced for insulting Islam
Posted in Art as a matter of life, tagged Adel Imam, Arab Springs, art, autoritarian, Christian, Coptic, culture, democracy, Egypt, freddom, human right, Islam, liberal, liberty, Muslim, Naguib Sawiris on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Arab world’s most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam in films and plays, a court document showed on Thursday. Imam, who has frequently poked fun at authorities and politicians of all colors during a 40-year career, has one month to appeal the sentence and will remain [...]
Bahgory’s timeless revolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arab Springs, art, culture, culture art, Egypt, George Bahgory, Grand Prix d’Angoulême, Jean-Claude Denis, paint, Tahrir Square on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Everything about George Bahgory recalls a lost time. The renowned Egyptian painter and caricaturist (sometimes referred to as the “Grandaddy of Egyptian Caricature”) has cultivated for himself the classic image of a 19th century Parisian painter; mustachioed, with a pointy beard, and a painterly hat at a jaunty angle. Bahgory seems to lead the romantic [...]
