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My visit to Madeira carnaval 2016 I stayed this time the 10 days in funchal mostly But Funchal remains a lovely city Health is much better this days, after 6 months of treatment my liver is functioning normal again Once Spring in Amsterdam starts so will...
What a fantastic visit to Paris, Thank you cexhib "JdS" for inviting me to your exposition "Look Closer".I can not express enough what a plesure it is to be a witness of your Creative Process.Keep doing what you do best, My friend.Enjoy the time in Madeira,...
Amsterdam is under a sea of white snow lockdown and curfew still goes on civid is not letting go easily Stay safe world and can't wait to see Amsterdam full of world travellers marvelling on the beauty MMaxi is now a days at https://mmaxiamsterdam.blogspot.com/...
This Spring I took 2 weeks of free time and went to visit France Loire region with my friends Joao and Alain exactly 10 years earlier the 3 of us visited this region it was a great experience and this second time was equally gratifying the area is so...
The new year is picking up steam, New Years resolutions have as always failed by now. Winter blues and grey have began, spring cleaning as started early better do it now while I have the free time. Maxine is 17 years old, every day I spend with her is...
Posters: Max Pechstein ( Don't Strangle Our New Born Freedom), 1919 Rudi Feld ( The Danger of Bolshevism), ca.1919 The Between War Years As the 1st World War drew to it's bitter end, hunger and despair were rife throughout Germany. Military defeat and...
Random words and phrases Lost in Translation Days go by Amsterdam my city my life Lovely weather good weekend warm boat joint wine missing friends Paris Madeira one week july lots of photos Old friends are returning nice Summer yes let it come World Cup...
Sun snow ice and the city of Amsterdam combine all of them and the result is fantastic Lockdown continues I went out shopping and took to many pictures again already posted some on https://mmaxiamsterdam.blogspot.com The day is at an end tomorrow and...
Day visit to Rotterdam It as been been a while since I was in Rotterdam I was surprised how much as changed My nephew Iuri was visiting for the christmas and new year he as been to Amsterdam before was great fun showing him some new places here in the...
Amsterdam My City My Life MMaxi19 Amsterdam loves Green Summer is going well I have been very busy with real life stuff working and living friends visiting lots of food mostly I cook no complain there rainy days hot days humid days I had boat trips city...
My eleventh and twelfth Lesson Days go by Random paintings and thoughts MMaxi10 Colours That Funchal View 08/12/10 What can I say I had my eleventh lesson last week, not much happened for some reason I was still uncertain if it was a good idea to have...
Random Words and Phrases Days Go By New Theme MMaxi10 Study On Colors It was my first oil painting lesson today I will be going every wednesday for 2 hours to a group painting lesson I want to try and understand the process of creating an image an idea...
Andre Derain (1880-1954) Derain was one of the founding fathers of fauvism, and one of its wildest practitioners. Influenced by van Gogh and working with Valminck in 1904 he felt that the impressionists had disintegrated their work into dots excessively....
Nu Bleau ( Souvenir de Biskra ) 1906 Biskra Arabic: biskra Biskra City and oasis in north-eastern Algeria with 190,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), at the northern edge of the Sahara. Biskra is the centre of the Zab group of oases located in the depression...
Leda, 1919 Otto Dix In his foreword to the 1919 exhibition catalogue devoted to the group's prints Grohmann introduced Dix this way " Otto Dix appeared at Easter with brutal force, and all sorts of expectations were aroused. At the moment he is laughing...
One of the most potent graphic cycles is the series of wood cut illustrations by the Dresden Secession artist Constantin von Mitschke-Collande for the Walter Georg Hartmann's allegorical book Der Begeisterte Weg ( The Inspired Way; ) Haartmann tells of...
Ludwig Meidner, like most of his poet friends, loved to walk the streets of the city. He roamed the outlying suburbs of Berlin for hours on end an drew his inspiration from what he saw.At night, back in the dark, little attic room that served as his studio,...
Neues Land ( New Land ) 1920 Johannes Molzahn Expressionism began to show an apocalyptic or ecstatic coloration in the work of several artists after the war.In 1919 Joahannes Molzahn published " Das Manifesto of Absoluten Expressionismus " ( The Manifesto...
Dix's Die Skatspieler ( The Skat Players ) of 1920 shows three mutilated veterans, former officers, playing cards in a gaslit pub. So deformed are they by their injuries that they are forced to play with prophetic hands or with their mouths or feet. Little...
Although Grosz was a member of the November-gruppe for a short time, the majority of his searing commentaries on Weimar society and its rampant corruption were created outside the group framework.Like Dix, Grosz had enlisted for military service despite...
Conrad Felixmüller ( 21 May 1897 - 24 March 1977 ) One of the youngst members of the "New Objectivity" After attending drawing classes at the Dresden Kunstgewerbeschule [School of Applied Arts] for one year, Felixmüller enrolled in the private school...
Study for Portrait on Folding Bed 1963 Oil on canvassupport: 1981 x 1473 mm frame: 2198 x 1690 x 82 mmpainting Purchased 1963 The body is often highly distorted in Bacon’s paintings. In this picture, for example, parts of the head and lower body are almost...
Isabel Rawsthorne (1912 - 1992)also known as Isabel Lambert, was a model and painter. Isabel Nichols was born in the east end of London, but brought up in Liverpool where she studied at the Liverpool School of Art. Jacob Epstein used her as a model in...
Francis Bacon Untitled ( Marching Figures ) ca. 1950/2 This parade of tiny figures marching through a cage-like structure that towers above them is unique in Francis Bacon's oeuvre. Nevertheless, in its composition and motifs this picture is comparable...
William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, his work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. He has...
