Month: December 2017

Brussels’ Magritte Musem

Brussels’ Magritte Musem: Covered with a Tarp Painting During Restoration Work 2008-2009

In the building of the Royal Museums for Fine Arts of Belgium, visitors will be able to discover the world’s largest collection of René Magritte’s works. The collection is a perfect proof of René Magritte’s oeuvre and covers all the periods from his life. The works on display, among which his most important masterpieces, are mainly from the legacies of Irene Scutenaire-Hamoir and Georgette Magritte and from purchases made by the Royal Museums for Fine Arts of Belgium, completed with works on loan from private persons.

Besides his paintings, oils on canvas, gouaches, drawings, sculptures and painted objects as well as advertising posters, musical scores, vintage photographs and films produced by the artist are exposed.

Edgar Ende

Edgar Ende, “Am Ufer” (On Shore), Oil on Canvas, Date Unknown

Edgar Karl Alfons Ende was a German surrealist painter and father of the children’s novelist Michael Emde.

Edgar Ende attended the Altona School of Arts and Crafts from 1916 to 1920.  In the 1930′s, Ende’s Surrealist paintings began to attract considerable critical attention, but were then condemned as degenerate by the German Nazi government. Beginning in 1936 the Nazis forbade him to continue to paint or exhibit his work. In 1940 he was conscripted into the Luftwaffe as an operator of anti-aircraft artillery.

The majority of his paintings were destroyed by a bomb raid on Munich in 1944, making his surviving pre-war work extremely rare. In 1951, Ende met the recognized founder of Surrealism, Andre Breton, who admired his work and declared him an official Surrealist. He continued to paint surrealist works until his death in 1965 of a myocardial infarction.

Ende’s paintings are thought to have had a significant influence on his son Michael’s writing. This is inferred in the scenes depicting the surreal dream-paintings from Yor’s Minroud in “Die Unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story)”, and is made explicit in Michael Ende’s book “Der Spiegel im Spiegel (The Mirror in the Mirror)”, a collection of short stories based on Edgar Ende’s surrealist works.

Second Insert Image: Edgar Ende, “Das Relief auf dem Felsen (The Relief on the Rock)”, 1936, Oil on Canvas, 70 x 90.5 cm, Private Collection

Michael Goro

Michael Goro, “Guangzhou”, Watercolor on Paper

An artist primarily in paintings and etchings, Michael “Misha” Goro was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. where he received his BA in architecture. In 1990, he immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel, where he discovered intaglio printmaking and began to use it as his main medium. In 1993, he moved to the United States and completed his education, receiving MFA in printmaking at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In his current capacity as a chairperson of the graphics department at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Goro has been instrumental in developing the program and teaching in it for the past nine years.

Al Green, “Funny How Time Slips Away”

Al Green, “Funny How Time Slips Away”, 1973, From the Album “Call Me”

“Funny How Time Slips Away” is a song written by Willie Nelson and first recorded by country singer Billy Walker. Al Green released a version in 1973 on his album “Call Me. He again revisited the song, this time with Lyle Lovett, which was released on the compilation album entitled “Rhythm, Country and Blues”. Al Green won his ninth Grammy Award for this version in the category of “Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals”.

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