TLC The Low Countries 26 - Dirk Van Assche / Manfred Sellink
Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands
KORTE INHOUD
On 20 January 2017, a mural appeared on Boulevard Barthélémy on the Canal in Brussels, of an imminent beheading. The knife and the fear on the face of a child in the depicted scene raised a furore. People thought of IS executions, and panicked.
Until it transpired that the anonymous street artist responsible had copied a section from a Caravaggio painting, The Sacrifice of Isaac (1603). The hand with the knife belongs to Abraham, a father who is about to murder his son. The hand on Abraham’s arm, holding him back, belongs to the angel, to whom Abraham surrenders at the last moment.
As if to say – since an understanding of traditions, in this instance of painting, the Bible, radically changes both perception and experience of the image –, it’s all about the context, stupid. Panic
and indignation give way to uncertainty and hesitation. The complexity of the images invites us to think. Our judgement no longer comes down like an axe, but is suspended.
Art, like everything really, exists in context: every thing refers...
Until it transpired that the anonymous street artist responsible had copied a section from a Caravaggio painting, The Sacrifice of Isaac (1603). The hand with the knife belongs to Abraham, a father who is about to murder his son. The hand on Abraham’s arm, holding him back, belongs to the angel, to whom Abraham surrenders at the last moment.
As if to say – since an understanding of traditions, in this instance of painting, the Bible, radically changes both perception and experience of the image –, it’s all about the context, stupid. Panic
and indignation give way to uncertainty and hesitation. The complexity of the images invites us to think. Our judgement no longer comes down like an axe, but is suspended.
Art, like everything really, exists in context: every thing refers...
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2018Uitgever: Ons Erfdeel320 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 235x170x23ISBN-10: 9079705292ISBN-13: 9789079705290Koop dit boek tweedehands
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An English-language yearbook on the culture of the Low Countries. Covers literature, the arts, general societal issues and relations between the English and Dutch-speaking worlds. A very attractive book that showcases the diversity and vitality of Flemish and Dutch culture to the rest of the world. The theme of the 2018 issue is: ?About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters? - Dutch and Flemish Artists Around the Globe.
softcover, 315 pages .illustrated. ISBN 9789079705290. [Auteur: Manfred VAN...
softcover, 315 pages .illustrated. ISBN 9789079705290. [Auteur: Manfred VAN...
