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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Next couple of weeks I’ll post from SPAIN!

weekend #17 photos

Previous posts are here 1 & here 2.

Gerhard Richter’s art is…AMAZING!

His photo paintings are amazing, his abstract works are amazing, wow!

Landwehrkanal

 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
February 12, 2012 – May 13, 2012

 A looong queue at 10:30 am

 Not so long queue at 3 pm.

Photo-paintings and the Blur

Many of these paintings are made in a multi-step process of representations. He starts with a photograph, which he has found or taken himself, and projects it onto his canvas, where he traces it for exact form.

Taking his color palette from the photograph, he paints to replicate the look of the original picture.

His hallmark “blur”—sometimes a softening by the light touch of a soft brush, sometimes a hard smear by an aggressive pull with his squeegee—has two effects:

1. It offers the image a photographic appearance; and

2. Paradoxically, it testifies the painter’s actions, both skilled and coarse,

and the plastic nature of the paint itself.

In some paintings blurs and smudges are severe enough to disrupt the image; it becomes hard to understand or believe. The subject is nullified. In these paintings, images and symbols (such as landscapes, portraits, and news photos) are rendered fragile illusions, fleeting conceptions in our constant reshaping of the world.

 Wikipedia tells you more > here.

 Betty

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 More Richter’s candles > here

 Richter’s Ema, Nude on a Staircase

 Toilet Paper Roll

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lots of artsy shadows, right

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Have a relaxing weekend

before celebrating May the 1st!