Category: Painting
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Grillo Meets Toorop: Painting, Stained Glass and Religion as a Symbiotic Relationship
Contemporary Nigerian artist Yusuf Grillo is a highly influential figure in Nigerian art history. Born in Lagos in 1934, he is celebrated for his inventive use of color, especially his signature shades of deep blue (a reference to adire and resist-dye textiles used in Nigeria), and for his expressive interpretations of Yoruba culture. His iconic…
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Gallery Tour: ‘Conversations’ at Esther Schipper Seoul
Esther Schipper presents Conversations (25 March–10 May 2025), a group exhibition exploring one of the most symbolic colours in the history of art, and how it has been used and represented in the work of significant artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition brings together a diverse and international group of artists including…
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Roemer Visscher, l’art de l’emblème et la tulipomanie dans l’Âge d’or des Provinces-Unies
Roemer Visscher était un négociant néerlandais prospère, mais aussi une figure éminente de la vie intellectuelle et culturelle des Provinces-Unies. Homme cultivé et passionné de littérature, il s’illustra notamment dans l’art des emblèmes, un genre à mi-chemin entre image, devise et interprétation morale. Il appartenait au cercle des rhétoriqueurs In liefde bloeiende (« En amour…
プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot 