MADRID.- The exhibition "Contexts of the Permanent Collection 23" presents an overview of selected works in grisaille, a technique which experienced its heyday in the 14th and 15th-centuries and was highly popular in the Netherlands. Among the great masters who practised the art of grisaille was Jan van Eyck , and his famous "Annunciation Diptych", owned by the Thyssen-Bornemisza...
FORM AND FORMALISM: THINKING METHOD, TRANSMISSION AND RUPTURE 7-8 NOVEMBER 2009, JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE, MAASTRICHT, NL Additional information here . Two day conference/workshop focused on the problematic and philosophical horizon of the problem of form and formalism at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands: At the center of our workshop are questions concerning: the legacy of structuralism...
Voila, the eminent and white-hairedphilosopher among his crowdof the young and inquiring ~________________________Thursday April 23th – 6pmBook launch and round-table discussion about the publication of Alain Badiou’s Of an Obscure Disaster/Mračni raspad (Jan van Eyck Academie/Bastard Editions)Participants: Bruno Besana, Ivana Momčilović, Frank Ruda, Ozren Pupovac, Jelica...
I was amused by the below, found in an article published in The Art Quarterly vol. 19 (Autumn 1956) on Detroit's St. Jerome in His Study attributed to Jan Van Eyck. As an explanation as to why the theory of...
S, the Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle of Lacanian Ideology Critique has a new issue out on Islam and Psychoanalysis . The next issue of Umbr(a) is also dedicated to this topic.
I occasionally make the assertion, in my posts about artists like Jan van Eyck, Antonello da Messina, Albrecht Altdorfer and Matthias Grünewald, that prior to the modern era of motion pictures, artists at various times were the special effects wizards of their day — dazzling those who viewed their works with displays of technical virtuosity, [...]
This double portrait was painted by Dutch artist Jan van Eyck in 1434. While oil painting had been around for a long time, van Eyck was responsible for making it popular. The portrait is thought to be of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, a cloth merchant from Lucca, Italy who was living in Bruges, Belgium, and [...]
From his plinth, that elevated vantage point, could he make his astute artistic judgement, what to paint, what to omit from his canvas. Jan Van Eyck, his statue oxidised to verdigris – a paint brush and board at the ready...
Guess I'd never thought of this particular example: Many times in history two artists have provided their contemporaries with alternative and complementry visions: Masaccio and Fra Angelico, Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, Raphael and Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Annibale Csrracci, Rembrandt and Rubens, Ingres and Delacroix, Picasso and Matisse. That's from Keith "Duccio and the Origins...
Artists have been creating self-portraits since ancient times - Jan van Eyck provided the earliest identifiable examples back in the 1430s. Film-makers have similarly been keen to immortalise themselves: Auguste Lumière took the first directorial cameo in Repas de Bébé in 1895. But Hollywood studios frowned upon directors putting themselves centre stage. So how come Alfred Hitchcock...
Jan Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Born in Turin some 56 years ago, Marco Pece is an Italian photographer with a fascination with Lego. An art lover himself, his recent works recreates famous paintings in perfect detail, using the ubiquitous bricks. After long hours “playing” with the bricks, the final artwork is a fabulous photograph. “I love to reconstruct celebrated paintings of the...
Jan van Eyck, the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432, detail Posted from the Birmingham Oratory here Hark, a joyful voice is thrilling, And each dim and winding way Of the ancient Temple filling; Dreams, depart! for it is day. Christ is coming!—from thy bed, Earth-bound soul, awake and spring,— With the sun new-risen to shed Health on human suffering. Lo! to grant a pardon free, Comes a willing Lamb...
MAASTRICHT.- Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit proposals for individual or collective research projects for a one-year, two-year or variable research period in the department of Design Extrastatecraft: Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism, a new
Lucca Madonna , by Jan van Eyck, 1436. Wikipedia: ...The Virgin has been identified as a portrait of the painters's wife, Margaretha, of whom van Eyck also made a secular portrait. It portrays the Virgin sitting on a throne with four small lion statues, a reference to the throne of Solomon, which had twelve lions on the sides and steps. In Iconography this depiction of Madonna and Child, with Jesus...
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