Plus Hernan Bas’s flamingo magnet obsession, Charles Gaines’s proud professor moment and JR in AR
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Plus Hernan Bas’s flamingo magnet obsession, Charles Gaines’s proud professor moment and JR in AR
Plus Hernan Bas’s flamingo magnet obsession, Charles Gaines’s proud professor moment and JR in AR
Police concerned ornate blades taken from Kelham Island Museum could be sold on the black market in the latest of a series of attacks on institutions in the UK city
At least 13 people have died and thousands have been evacuated as the Emilia-Romagna region battles its worst floods in 100 years
At least 13 people have died and thousands have been evacuated as the Emilia-Romagna region battles its worst floods in 100 years
A new exhibition in Utrecht looks at the role of Antwerp in the development of painting in Holland
A new exhibition in Utrecht looks at the role of Antwerp in the development of painting in Holland
A double-header night of The Now and contemporary art auctions set ten new artist records, boosting confidence after a lacklustre Christie’s sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection
Modernism for the people at the Stedelijk Museum
From May 18 to September 24, 2023, the Stedelijk Museum presents the exhibition “Very Modern”
Source: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam · Image: Vincent van Gogh, “Outskirts of Paris, View from Montmartre”, 1887, collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, donation VVHK, 1949
The exhibition sheds new light on 19th- and early 20th-century modern artists and designers who wanted not only to work for the elite but to reach as many people as possible. Visual artists who felt that their gains from individual freedom had been paid for with a loss of direct involvement in society turned to ‘community art.’ Committed designers who were inspired by technological and social modernity were not only concerned with beauty, but also with the ‘true’ and the ‘good’.
Well-designed utensils are said to have a positive influence on people and their environment. A story about the connection between aesthetics and ethics, in which the interaction between European and extra-European art and design is also discussed.
The exhibition includes works by Vincent van Gogh, Victor Thonet, Jean-François Millet, Jozef Israëls, George Hendrik Breitner, Robertson, Valadon, Jan Toorop, William Morris, Berlage, Fernand Léger, Cassandre, Krull, Breuer and others, and objects from Morocco, Indonesia and Fiji, among others.
