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  • Traverse Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ with Smarthistory – Colossal

    Turning over the panels, as if opening the cover of a book, we enter an otherworldly realm where humans and beasts mingle with oversized animals, fruit, and surreal structures. On the left, Adam and Eve are introduced by a young God, before Eve was tempted to eat the forbidden fruit hanging in the Garden of Eden. In the center, dozens of nude figures frolic, eat, engage in sexual activities, forage, swim, and fly. On the right is hell. “One of the most compelling theories is that the central panel is an alternate story,” Zucker says. “What if the Temptation had not taken place? What if Adam and Eve had remained innocent and had populated the world? And so is it possible that what we’re seeing is that reality played out in Bosch’s imagination?”

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  • CasiOak watches – IFL Watches

    Make a bold statement with custom CasiOak watches, each piece a canvas of striking hues and robust features for dynamic lifestyles and discerning tastes.

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  • Face painter: Meet Chris Alexander, The Dial Artist – About Time: Esquire

    Chris Alexander, who goes by the name The Dial Artist … has elevated watch dial customisation to a fine art. The former senior lecturer in design at Dundee College divides his time between personal commissions of one-of-a-kind hand-painted watch dials, and official projects in collaboration with brands including Spinnaker, L’Epée and Perrelet. … With the customisation market only heading one way, business for The Dial Artist is in rude health. His Instagram offers regular updates of one-off designs for individual clients – A Santos de Cartier adorned with a Roman gladiator, a Tissot PRX with a Tetris game pattern – while on March 8th he’ll be appearing at British Watchmakers’ Day in London, where he’ll be painting live at the event.

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  • Radical doodles – how ‘exquisite corpse’ games embodied the Surrealist movement – Aeon Videos

    Commemorating [André Breton’s Surrealist] manifesto’s centennial, this short documentary from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA) explores the surrealist exercise known as ‘exquisite corpse’, in which each participant creates one portion of a body, unaware of how the other participants’ contributions will look. Taking viewers through a history of the exquisite corpse up to today, the piece explores how these projects embody the surrealist emphasis on freedom, community and radical creativity.

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  • $50 Van Gogh? Experts say no, offering alternative attribution in dramatic art dispute – Artnet News

    The claim that New York-based LMI Group had discovered a long lost portrait by Van Gogh made a huge splash when it was announced last week. The company said the attribution was made by a team of experts according to a multi-pronged “data-based” approach costing over $30,000. Some commentators pored over the company’s 456-page report while others felt confident making their judgement from just a cursory glance at the composition. […]

    “I thought it was odd that a claimed title was in the area where usually the signature sits,” said Dr. Martin Pracher, who offers appraisal and authentication services in Würzburg, Germany. After conducting some research, he found other paintings signed “Elimar” by a little known Danish artist Henning Elimar, who was born in Aarhus in 1928 and died in 1989. In one case, a painting attributed to an “unknown artist” that sold for €25 ($25) at Auktionshaus Dannenberg in Germany in September 2024 also bore the signature “Elimar” written in black bold caps, just like the text on Elimar (1889). […]

    Edward Rosser, an art collector who was among those taken aback by LMI’s claim, said he was able to connect the painting to Henning Elimar thanks to “a simple Google search with the words ‘painting’ and ‘Elimar.’” This artist’s works, he found, bore signatures “as close as one could wish to the inscription on the yard sale ‘van Gogh,’” he said. “Much of what we respond to in Van Gogh’s art is the rhythm and proportion of his brushstrokes,” he continued. “They somehow, magically, create paintings that are ‘alive’; they even seem to vibrate.” Could the author of Elimar (1889)’s efforts ever compare? “I think it is a dreadful painting, and is about as far from a true Van Gogh as a painting could possibly be.”

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  • In London, an enormous exhibition of 500+ works roots out the creative seeds of flowers – Colossal

    In nature, flowers serve as an essential component of the reproduction process. But for humans, scented blooms are ripe with myriad meanings and symbolism that transcend their biological functions. … A massive exhibition opening next month at Saatchi Gallery cultivates a vast repertoire of works that explores how blooms have become an omnipresent entity in human life and creativity. Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture brings together more than 500 photographs, installations, sculptures, archival pieces, and other objects to create a rich landscape spanning millennia.

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  • The Great Wave: why has this become the defining image of our era? – The Guardian

    Okuda thinks that the image shows “the grand scale of nature v humans”. It certainly speaks to the climate crisis, and to migration. Japan was following the sakoku isolationist policy when Hokusai designed his print. Trade was restricted. Foreign nationals couldn’t enter Japan. Overseas travel was forbidden. In this context, the new and exotic Prussian blue pigment – likely imported from Europe via China – would have been startling to Hokusai’s first buyers. Maybe that is another reason why this image feels hopeful. He put the world beyond the wave on paper.
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  • Egon Schiele’s landscapes tell a winter’s tale – Hyperallergic

    An eternal fall permeates most of the artist’s landscapes, in which gloomy and Gothic towns are shot through with a sense of impending doom.

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  • The search for van Gogh’s lost masterpiece – The New York Times

    Art sleuths over the years have confirmed this much: that the Japanese buyer from 1990 was soon undone by scandal, criminally sanctioned and died. His collection was sold by a bank and the Gachet was acquired by an Austrian financier who soon found that he too could not afford to keep it. In 1998, the van Gogh was sold privately to an undisclosed party. Since then the trail has run cold. At least publicly. […]

    All parties had an opinion on the core question that drives such a quest: Do collecting families have any responsibility to share iconic works of art with the broader public? … “People are allowed to own things privately,” said Michael Findlay, who was involved as a specialist for Christie’s in the 1990 auction sale of the Gachet. “Does it belong to everybody? No, it does not.”

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  • The 30 best art books of 2024 – Hyperallergic

    By recontextualizing the Renaissance in downright gothic terms, Bosch becomes the primogeniture of an alternative school of the period that is marked by the monstrous as much as the humanistic. Aikema and Cremades’s argument isn’t a boring rehash of the Northern versus the Italian Renaissance debate. This alternative school isn’t marked by geography as much as it is by perspective, so that Giuseppe Arcimboldo joins Netherlandish counterparts like Pieter Brueghel in their turn towards the bizarre.

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  • Magritte, master of surrealism, joins the $100 million dollar club – The New York Times

    Painted in 1954 and measuring almost five-feet-high, “The Empire of Light” was the last of 19 works that Christie’s offered from the collection of the socialite, designer and philanthropist Mica Ertegun. It was one of the largest of the 17 versions of this subject that Magritte painted in oil. The best-known is probably the monumental “L’empire des lumières” in the Guggenheim Museum in Venice. Ertegun’s slightly smaller canvas, which she acquired privately in 1968, is the first in the series to include water in the foreground. “It’s maybe the best,” said Paolo Vedovi, the director of a gallery in Brussels specializing in works by Magritte and other 20th-century artists. “It seems that every big collector now wants a Magritte.” Vedovi added of the Surrealist’s appeal: “He’s so contemporary. Maybe you get away from this world and bad thinking. You don’t want something that is tough. He is poetic.”

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  • In ‘Hidden Portraits,’ Volker Hermes reimagines historical figures in overwhelming frippery – Colossal

    Engulfed in their own finery, the subjects of Volker Hermes’ portraits epitomize a bygone era. From the Italian High Renaissance to French Rococo, his digital reinterpretations playfully hide the faces of wealthy and aristocratic sitters. Hidden Portraits: Old Masters Reimagined, a new book forthcoming this month, gathers a quintessential selection of Hermes’ works into one volume. Highlighting the artist’s wry commentary on luxury, social status, and fame, the selection delves into the history of portraiture through a humorous lens.
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