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This week’s theme is
‘Take a photo where the focus is an area of high contrast,
or just one with a really strong focus that holds the eye.’
Jaume Plensa’s art, his website here
Last week’s collection of photos here > photo challenge
week #50 photos
makroviikko/macro week challenge #84
teema / theme:
3 x 12
Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:
Ei ihan makro mutta hyväksyttäneen…
Other entries:
I visited CAC Málaga * Centro de Arte Contemporáneo
on the last day they had Vik Muniz‘s art there…
It was a very inspiring exhibition!
You find CAC Málaga in Calle Alemania
“Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz born 1961,
São Paulo, Brazil, is a visual artist living in New York City and Rio de Janeiro.
Muniz specializes in remaking famous artworks with materials other than paint, and then photographing them.”
Double Mona Lisa made of peanut butter and jelly, 1999
and here’s a detail of that huge work…
Got the idea what the work is about…
Now two detail first – of ripped magazines…
If you google Gustave Caillebotte you’ll find the model for this work…
I recognized original Richter’s work which I saw in Berlin….
Muniz’s work is done of those pieces of paper…
Hay dos maneras de vivir su vida: una como si nada es un milagro,
la otra es como si todo es un milagro.
Albert Einstein
weekend #29 photos
previous posts from our trip in Spain 1., 2., 3., 4.
This is it. Last part of postings from our vacation in Spain in June 2012.
Malaga city – it was great to explore your historical streets!
Only walls left…I wonder how this building will look when ready…
Hand of Peace by Jose Seguiri
“Points of View” by the British artist Tony Cragg
Thank you for your excellent work!!!
Fans celebrating when Spain won Euro 2012 football championship
Malaga – city of Pablo Picasso
Have a relaxing weekend!
weekend #24 photos
Last weekend I posted about Peter Dahl’s paintings in Gallen-Kallela Museum.
This post is about the museum.
It was at Tarvaspää that Gallen-Kallela was able to realize the dream of his youth:
“Out in the wilds I would like to own a crenellated castle,
with a tower of grey stone and timbers of pine and oak.
There I would brood on my own, spend a few hours in my laboratory,
a few in my library, and the rest of the day forging metal, painting and sculpting.”
read more here
Let’s go!
cycling to Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Museum Photos by BLOGitse
Do you like the views? I do! 
Let’s leave our bikes and walk behind the Tarvaspää Café and Restaurant…
walking behind Tarvaspää Café and Restaurant Photos by BLOGitse
Somebody’s painting Akseli’s landscape…
and the smoke sauna looks so charming…
Now a few steps up and we’re in the courtyard…
up to the Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Museum’s courtyard Photos by BLOGitse
Down right is the museum…
When you’re standing in front of the museum you see the café/restaurant…
Tarvaspää Cafe and Restaurant Photos by BLOGitse
Top picture is a shot behind the building.
There are places to sit outside too.
And now we go in to the museum…
Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s studio at Tarvaspää Photos by BLOGitse
I’d love to have a window like this…
Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s bathroom and suitcase at Tarvaspää Photos by BLOGitse
Akseli traveled a lot.
Downstairs is the bathroom…
Floor mosaic designed by Akseli Gallen-Kallela Photos by BLOGitse
Left: a plan for the floor mosaic designed by Gallen-Kallela – with his footprints
Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s tools at his studio Photos by BLOGitse
Akseli’s tools at his studio…
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931), Finland’s national artist,
designed and built his studio and home at Tarvaspää near Helsinki in 1911–1913.
Tarvaspää was opened to the public as the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 1961.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela Self-portrait on a Green Background 1908 Photo by BLOGitse
Akseli Gallen-Kallela Self-portrait on a Green Background
1908
Akseli Gallen-Kallela Self-portrait for the Uffizi Gallery, Florence 1916 Photo by BLOGitse
Akseli Gallen-Kallela Self-portrait for Uffizi Gallery, Florence
1916
Boy with a Crow from 1884 is one of my favorites.
Rustic Life, 1867 was sold for 400.000 euros in 2010.
Virtual tour in Gallen-Kallela Museum here
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This is my Shadow Shot Sunday2entry
Shadow Shot Sunday2 Photo by BLOGitse
I participate with this post also to
Have a relaxing weekend!
Next couple of weeks I’ll post from SPAIN!
weekend #23 photos
“Peter Dahl considered his life as artist,
with all the conflicts and sensations that his paintings have
sometimes aroused.
This happened over a dinner in Mora in April 2011.
Peter Dahl turned to me and said with a weak smile,
“All I ever wanted to do was just to paint.”
(Johan Cederlund, director of the Zorn Museum).
Proud Town and Other Tales – Peter Dahl at Tarvaspää
The Gallen-Kallela Museum
28 March – 27 May 2012
I’ll post pics from that museum next weekend.
Solitary Guest
Cold outside the Tavern
My Grandmother’s House
Last night with Fellows
Who is the King of the Tavern?
Who is the King of the Tavern? detail
Dance in the Blue
In Fine Company
What do you think about that golden skirt?
Paris Bribed
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Last and least is my drawing.
I’ve been studying life drawing this week.
This is not ready but wanted show you.
What have you studied lately?
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did you notice all the shadows from the paintings?
weekend #11 photos
These strong paintings are made by a Finnish artist
Ville Löppönen
His solo exhibition I KILLED MY GOD
in
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo, Helsinki, Finland
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These fragile pics are made by BLOGitse.
Tulip art
Have a relaxing weekend!
ps.
On Monday again / maanantaina taas uusi haaste
photos of the weekend #1 / images from indoors to outdoors
INDOORS
I visited Galerie Forsblom here in Helsinki.
Hurry, last day for this exhibition is 8th of January!
Katja Tukiainen‘s works
More Tukiainen’s works > here
The artist herself, Raili Tang.
More Tang’s works > here
Tony Oursler‘s works
more his works > here and Tony Oursler’s site > here
OUTDOORS
New Year’s Day 2012
All consumed…
Out of the closet?
I didn’t know I’m this tall!
Looks almost summery!
How many curves?
Art of ice
Like flowers
Have a great weekend!
makroviikko/macro week challenge #41
teema / theme: taide / art
“This work contains a half of the collection of some 200 letters
(owned by the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg’s foundation),
until now unpublished, from artist Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946)
to her artist friend Maria Wiik (1853–1928), dating from 1907 to 1928.”
Read more > BOOKS from Finland
Taidetta koteihin!
photos of the weekend #47 / ARS 11 – contemporary art in Kiasma, Helsinki part 2.
Previous post is here > 18.11.11
Left: Statue of Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951)
was the military leader….Mannerheim is widely regarded,
by many Finns and non-Finns alike, as the father of the modern country of Finland.
Mary Sibande
Sibande depicts a woman named Sophie who wears a blue dress remininscent of a
Victorian costume and a maid’s outfit…Sophie turns everyday rules upside down.
More Mary’s art in Gallery MOMO
Patrizia Guerresi Maïmouna
Gurresi considers themes of femininity, religion abd corporality -
in her own words, “the mystic body”.
More her art here.
Pieter Hugo
…the lives of people at an electronic waste dump in Ghana.
Read more about permanent error.
Romuald Hazoumè
…the snake made out of old oil canisters –
they point tot the West African oil industry and the smuggling that goes on.
Romuald in Facebook
Odili Donald Odita
Odita often creates paintings directly in existing spaces –
wall painting challenge us to experience the space in a new way.
Visit his website.
Kudzanai Chiurai
This photographic series introduces the Black President and his imaginary government.
More his art here.
Barthélémy Toguo
…like a temporary refugee camp built to satisfy urgent needs…
Visit his website.
Watch artists interviews here or visit Kiasma’s website.
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Did you notice all the shadows in and out?
Have a relaxing weekend!
photos of the weekend #46 / The ARS 11 exhibition in Kiasma, Helsinki part 1.
“The ARS 11 exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists
living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of
African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work.
The exhibition features some 300 works by a total of 30 artists.”
Read more > ARS 11 in Kiasma
“El Anatsui‘s work consists of bottle caps and other metallic waste.”
It was a sunny day when I visited ARS 11…great light and shadows…
El Anatsui’s artwork hanging on the wall…
Look how small she looks next to El Anatsui’s artwork!
More ARS 11 artists/pictures next weekend!
Have a relaxing weekend!
ps.
“Art is a way for children to tell their own stories“
says Patricia Landinez from UNICEF’s Child Protection section.
Read more > UNICEF
Sunday is Universal Children’s Day!
