IN MY ELEMENT

After « The Fish Pond » I found myself reveling in poetry, music and image. It was a wonderful feeling. But had we seen everything that there was to see? How wonderful « Modern Classics » appeared before my eyes so up to the top floor of the Stedelijk Museum.

We know that the great artists from the first half of the 20th century were mainly painters and sculptors. For a long time, art history focused on these disciplines which I discovered during my many conferences. Perhaps they overlooked other parts of the artists’ work? Along the way I have discovered that the « classic modernists » could turn their hand to anything: they made prints, designed textiles or stage sets….can you think of anyone that I am talking about? All the artists are well known and all of them spent extended period living and working in France and most of them were acquainted. They even challenged one another to explore new directions. Picasso encouraged Marc Chagall and Georges Braque to work with ceramics…


Picasso - Vase Femme, 1954

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

and I think it is Braque 

Picasso


.others worked on jewelry ….


Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985)

Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985)

Alexander Calder, 1940




Man Ray (1880-1976)




and to my astonished, Fontana knew how to do something else apart from slitting paper

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) 

Fontana

Fontana

 here are some other of the works that I discovered or rediscovered in this delightful exhibition.


Fontana

Fontana


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Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)

Christine van der Haak (1910-1930)

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)








What bliss, what space....




Out in the gardens under the grey skies, the cows ignored us and we went our way after a wonderful couple of days…..
The Museum

Grazing cows
The three of us from afar

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