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van Gogh

17 Tuesday May 2022

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Vincent van Gogh, Irises, Saint Rémy de Provence, 1889

In May 1889, after episodes of self-mutilation and hospitalization, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. There, in the last year before his death, he created almost 130 paintings. Within the first week, he began Irises, working from nature in the asylum’s garden. The cropped composition, divided into broad areas of vivid color with monumental irises overflowing its borders, was probably influenced by the decorative patterning of Japanese woodblock prints.

Matisse

26 Sunday Dec 2021

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Henri Matisse, Devica z Detetom, Kapela rožnega venca / Matisse Chapel in Vence

Posebej me je prevzela kapela, ki jo je mojster ustvaril nekaj let pred smrtjo in jo opremil z vitraji ter monumentalnimi črtnimi risbami na stenah, obloženih z belimi keramičnimi ploščicami. Pri ustvarjanju velike podobe Marije z Detetom se je slikar odločil za asketsko upodobitev brez zunanjih olepšav. Skozi preproste črne poteze, ki poudarjajo svetlečo belino podlage in nakazujejo figuri matere z otrokom, sije močna duhovna energija notranje, fizičnim očem nevidne lepote in miline. Novorojeno dete je krhko, a ni nebogljeno. Pogumno raste iz materinega naročja in razpira roki v obliki križa, kot da želi objeti ves svet. ⁓ Matej Metlikovič

Pregelj

12 Monday Jul 2021

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Marij Pregelj, Oče (Ivan Pregelj)

Bilo mi je dano

na zemljo priti / in znati / ljubiti, / po morju iti / in ne utoniti, / živeti / in biti / in nikdar miniti, / v atome luči / in svetlobe / se zliti, / prebiti zid / zemskosti / in časa, / se spet prebuditi. // Ne več na tem / svetu: / doma, / pri Očetu. ⁓ Bruna Marija Pertot, Črnike dobre na nabrežju, Mladika 2011

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O’Keeffe

16 Wednesday Dec 2020

Georgia O’Keeffe, Music – Pink and Blue No.1, 1918

While painting, O’Keeffe occasionally listened to music, translating her emotions onto paper. She herself was not very musical, she loved to sing but acknowledged that she couldn’t – so she painted.

“It is something I wanted very much to tell someone– and what I wanted to express was a feeling like wonderful music gives me” Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Anita Pollitzer, 1915.

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Chagall

26 Thursday Nov 2020

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Marc Chagall, La Vie, 1964

The painting incorporates all the themes that characterized his work. In a pyrotechnical burst of color, it depicts the painter’s youth and Hebraic inspiration, his fabulous imaginary world peopled with clowns, musicians and acrobats, his fairytale animals, maternity – in short, an ode to life.

Raffaello

15 Friday May 2020

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Scuola di Atene /The School of Athens, Palazzi Apostolici, Stato della Città del Vaticano

Zenone di Cizio, Epicuro, Federico II Gonzaga, Severino Boezio, Averroè, Pitagora, Telaugue, Alcibiade, Antistene, Kalokagathia greca, Eschine, Parmenide, Socrate, Eraclito, Platone, Arisotele, Diogene di Sinope, Plotino, Euclide, Claudio Tolomeo, Apelle, Protogene

Michelangelo

13 Wednesday May 2020

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Michelangelo Buonarroti, La Cappella Sistina, Musei Vaticani, Roma, 1508-1512

Named after Pope Sixtus IV, the Sistine Chapel is perhaps the most famous chapel in the world. It is renowned both for its function as the Papal Conclave and for its incredible artwork. The ceiling and western wall of the Sistine Chapel are adorned with some of the most astonishing paintings in the world created by the famous artist. The middle section depicts nine stories from the Book of Genesis, including the renowned ‘Creation of Adam’ where the hand of God is seen reaching to Adam to instill him with life. Despite being one of the most celebrated works of art in history, Michelangelo was originally hesitant to paint the ceiling of the chapel for he considered himself as more of a sculptor than a painter.

 

Giotto

14 Tuesday Apr 2020

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Giotto, St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, 1295-1300, Fresco, St. Francis Upper Church, Assisi, Italy

Najvišji, vsemogočni, dobri Gospod, / tebi hvala, slava in čast in ves blagoslov. / Tebi, najvišjemu, edinemu pristoji / in nihče ni vreden tebe imenovati. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, z vsemi tvojimi stvarmi, / posebno s soncem, velikim bratom, / ki razsvetljuje dneve in nas. / Lepo je in v velikem sijaju žari. / Tebe, Najvišji, odseva. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v sestri luni in zvezdah; / ustvaril si jih na nebu jasne, dragocene in lepe. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v bratu vetru in zraku, / v oblačnem in jasnem, / sploh vsakem vremenu, / s katerim ohranjaš svoje stvari. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v naši sestri vodi; / mnogo koristi ponižna, dobra in čista. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v našem bratu ognju, / v katerem nam noč razsvetljuješ; / lep je in vesel in krepak in močan. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v naši sestri zemlji, / ki nas kakor mati hrani in nam gospodinji, / in prinaša različno sadje / in pisane rože z zelenjem. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v onih, / ki zaradi tvoje ljubezni odpuščajo, / in prenašajo slabosti in trpljenje. / Blagor njim, ki ostanejo v miru, / zakaj ti, Najvišji, jih boš kronal. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v naši sestri smrti, / ki ji nihče v življenju ne uide. / Gorje njim, ki umrjejo v smrtnem grehu, / a blagor njim, ki počivajo v tvoji najsvetejši volji, / zakaj druga smrt jim ne bo mogla storiti žalega. // Hvalite in poveličujte mojega Gospoda in zahvalite se mu in služite mu / v veliki ponižnosti.

Sončna pesem, Sveti Frančišek Asiški

Monet

28 Saturday Mar 2020

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 Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise

This work was painted at Le Havre in 1873. It was one of the nine works that he showed at the First Impressionist Exhibition of 1874. Of all those displayed there, this is probably the most famous picture, not so much because of any crucial status within Monet’s oeuvre, but rather for the criticism it attracted from the reviewers, which gave rise to the name of the movement.

Kobilica

21 Saturday Mar 2020

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Ivana Kobilica, Oton Župančič, 1922

O, da mi je priti do svoje podobe! / Da bi jo zagledal jasno pred seboj! // Mračna je znotraj v meni mračnem, / vsega prešinja me, vsega prebada, / razprezajoča se v svojo rast… / In navznoter jo tipljem, / z vsem bitjem, slepec, tipaje, / in rastem ž njeno rastjó, / ž njo vred tavaje, / kam, sam ne vem… // O, da mi je priti do svoje podobe! / Da bi jo zagledal pred seboj! // Glej: Ali ni človek kakor drevo, ki bi raslo iz svojega semena, iz svoje srede na štiri strani… / pa ga bije vihar / in mu veje kodrá in krivenči, / da izgreši svoje štiri smeri / in ne more do svoje podobe? … // O, da mi je priti do svoje podobe! / Da bi jo zagledal pred seboj! // Je: kdor je šel od konca s smerjó, / kdor sméri ostàl je do kraja zvest // in ves se pognàl je v samo rast: / tak, kadar nazadnje razpnè roké / kot mož, ki se pretegne v dan, / merèč tkanino večnih sanj, / pokaže nam svojo podobo: križ… // O, da nam je priti do svoje podobe, / i meni i tebi, narod moj!

Oton Župančič, Podoba, V zarje Vidove

Krašovec

04 Friday May 2018

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Metka Krašovec, akvarel, februar, 2009

»Metka Krašovec premore v svojih predalih obilico malih akvarelov, ki nastajajo že leta in so v resnici intimne meditacije na temo. Mali utrinki, pomisleki ali samo vprašanja, ki jih Metka zapisuje na papir. To so hitri zapisi, včasih že kar podzavestni. Človeške figure delujejo skoraj kot grafični znaki, ki plešejo nenavadno koreografijo v breztežnostnem stanju. A vsaka podoba ima svojo jasno likovno sporočilo. Enostavnost potez, s katerimi so upodobljene figure, zapleta govorica teles. Ta je tisti fokus slik, ki jih dela nenavadne in gledalcu zastavlja fine “uganke”. Mogoče celo avtorici sami. Ali pa so to že nekakšni odgovori, ki jih je treba le še dešifrirati. Lahko pa si to serijo slik razlagamo tudi kot izsek iz dnevnika čustev, nekakšen ples duha,« je zapisal likovni urednik Pavle Učakar.

Voigt

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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jorinde voigt Grosse Melodie_Horizont

Jorinde Voigt, WV 2010-650 Grosse Melodie / Horizont Melodie, Zäsur, Himmelsrichtung / Territorium, Zentrum, Wasser, Airport; Konstruktion, Dekonstruktion; N, S, O, W; Position (identisch) Zentrum; Kontinentalgrenze, mögliche Farben des Horizonts Jorinde Voigt Berlin 2010 Tinte, Bleistift auf Papier 202 x 300 cm

Homage to Saul Leiter

01 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Saul Leiter, Homage, Gallery Fifty One and Fifty One Too, Antwerp, Belgium