Dice

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Author: Pablo Picasso
Dice. 1900-1932

Nedávno jsme se vrátili z Barcelony, kde jsme samozřejmě navštívili i Muzeum Picassa. Jako upomínku na něj jsem vybrala jeden jeho méně známý obraz. V roce 2010 byl spolu s dalšími 270ti neznámými picassovými skicami  nalezen v domě sedmdesátiletého důchodce Pierra Le Guenneca, který tvrdil, že je od Picassa dostal darem. Picassův syn tvrdí, že je ukradl....Důležité je zmínit, že celková cena nalezených děl má hodnotu více než 50 milionů liber!

 I have chosen this Picasso's work as a remembrance of the Museu Picasso we visited last week in Barcelona. This painting was one of 271 unknown works by Picasso that have been found in 2010.  It is perhaps why the French police arrested the 71-year-old Pierre Le Quennec when they discovered the cache of sketches and painting worth 50 millions pounds at his Riviera home. Mr Quennec claimed that he was given the collection by the artist when he carried out odd jobs for him at his Cote d'Azur home for 40 years ago. However, Picasso'son,Claude, suspected that the works were stolen....In the meantime the pieces are goldmine for Picasso experts. "Above all what counts is to retrieve a collection which is of historic importance for art history,' said a lawyer for the artist's family.

Turn the World Upside Down

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Author: Jeff Aerosol
Turn the World Upside Down. 2009

Naučit Olivera stát na jedne ruce, to byl opravdu oříšek! :)

To teach Oliver to stand on one hand, this was a hard teaser, finally he made it! :)

Jef Aérosol is the pseudonym of Jean-François Perroy, a French stencil graffiti artist. He has been an urban art proponent in France since 1982, and is a contemporary of Blek le Rat and Speedy Graphito.Naučit Olivera stát na jedne ruce, to byl opravdu oříšek!

Perroy was born in Nantes. He spray painted his first stencil in 1982, in Tours, and has been living in Lille since 1984. He has left his works on the walls of many cities in Western Europe and the United States, as well as Beijing, Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Reunion Island.

Green

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Author: Liorkaridi
Green. 2010

Na Pinterestu jsem našla obraz této umělkyně (domnívám se, že se jedná o ženu, alespoň mi to tak přijde, když jsem viděla její obrazy...), jejíž jméno se mi nepodařilo vyhledat, podepisuje se v hebrejštině...Vím o ní jen, že miluje abstraktní umění, jejím favoritem je Vasilij Kandinskij a inspiraci hledá u Picassa. Nemá ráda štětce a raději používá špachtli, se kterou nanáší velké množství akrylové barvy přímo na plátno. 

I found this painting on Pinterest and I could not trace the name of the author. She (I suppose it is woman because of her paintings I saw...) signs her canvas in hebrew and she offers only few info about her: she adores Wassily Kandinsky and Picasso, uses acrylic colors and prefers painting knife than brushes...

Boy playing a recorder

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Author: Hendrick Terbrugghen
Boy playing a recorder. 1621

Dnes asi měli všichni sousedi z našeho focení náramnou radost! Viky  pískal na flétničku s velikou chutí a pořádně hlasitě!:)

Next time I give a flute to my son I should warn all the neighbours to use the earplugs...:)

Circus Girl Seated

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Author: Fernando Botero
Circus Girl Seated. 2008

Když byla Natálka menší, vypadala jakoby vystoupila z Boterových obrazů...Dnes už zdaleka tak nevypadá, ale i přesto jsme s ní nedávno nafotili tuto akrobatku. K čelence s pírkem jsem ji vůbec nemusela přemlouvat, stala se totiž velkou fanynkou filmů s Vinnetouem..:)

The critics hate him more because he is rich, an immense commercial success, easy on the eye and very popular with ordinary folk. 'Art should be an oasis from the hardness of life,' he said to critical outrage a decade ago. Botero has absolutely nothing to do with Contemporary Art,' hooted the New York critic Rosalind Krauss. His work was 'pathetic'. Another critic compared his form and structure to 'mushy brown gravy poured over marzipan' and noted his appeal to 'old-style philistinism, to the belief that works of art should have ideas so obvious that they grab you by the lapels'. His paintings, he added genially, were 'banal'. And so on.Botero gulps for breath. ' If my art is so horrible, why do so many museum directors buy me? Why are there so many books about me? I am a living artist who has been in 60 museum shows. I have more respect for a museum director, I promise you, than a boy who comes out of art school, sets up as critic and uses me as a punching bag.'.