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PAINTING WITH A STORY

Paintings with a story is a new cycle of articles in art brussels site.

The short stories will be published in the Artists section. Enjoy!

120 years ago Eduard Munch painted the famous " Scream". Here is what he felt:

"I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite Scream passing through nature..." E.Munch

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS in Brussels - untill 25, May 2013

Theter and art meetings | Art festival in Brussels

The Kunstenfestivaldesarts takes place in May every year. Around twenty theatres and arts centres in Brussels present a selection of artistic work created by Belgian and international artists: new works which which translate a personal vision of the world today throught the actvities of this cosmopolitan city festival.

The Kunstenfestivaldesarts takes place in Brussels, the only city in Belgium where the country’s two largest communities live together. Several Flemish- and French-speaking institutions are involved in the project. Fundamentally conceived as a bilingual undertaking, it contributes to encouraging dialogue between the communities living in the city.

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Gustave Courbet- French realism master in Brussels

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels is featuring a context exhibition on Gustave Courbet and Belgium. The exhibit focuses on the realism of the 'living art". It ois devoted to the receipt of Courbet’s work in Belgium during the years 1850-70s. Courbet got a wide recognition after his provocative exhibition Realisme in front of the Grand Palais in Paris. His paintings focused on everyday issues. The current exhibition is structured around six paintings of Courbet which are within the Royal Museum Collection. These landscapes and portraits will be confronted with a selection of paintings of other Belgian Realistic artists.

Courbet at Royal Museums of Art in Brussels, 07 of May to 11 of August 2013

Paris celebrates the artistic personality of Tamara de Lempicka, Polish born painter who with her famous portraitures and joyful caracter added to the French "années folles".

Tamara Łempicka,also known as de Lempicka was a self trained artist who immersed into the art deco art world in Paris in 1920s. The participation in the French salon permitted her to gain large public recognition. Her reputation was enforced by belonging to the legendary parisian boheme.

Tamara de Lempicka, Pinacoteque de Paris,untill 08.09 2013

Tamara de Lempicka

L'écharpe bleue
Mai 1930
Huile sur bois
56,5 x 48 cm
Collection privée
© Tamara Art Heritage /

Licensed by Museum Masters International NYC / ADAGP, Paris 2013

AFTERNOON ART ACADEMY in the European Commission

Would you like to get to know more about art? Would you like to learn what is the star system in art, what was the biggest mystery in life of Caravaggio, what Bruegel thought about Brussels and what were the orgins of Flemish architecture?

Join ART LECTURES held in Brussels.

Lectures on art histiory and contemporary art are held at European Commission on Thursdays. They are delivered in English and free of charge.

Upcoming meetings: 18.04.2013, 23.05.2013

For more information and registration: write us : artbrussels@artbrussels.com

What we can do for culture? What we can do for Europe? Are you and artist? Or a cultural professional? Seize the opportunities which are brought by the new programme- CREATIVE EUROPE. What is it about in numbers?

300 000 artists and cultural professionals and their work receive funding to reach new audiences beyond their home countries.
More than 1 000 European films would receive distribution support, enabling them to be seen by audiences throughout Europe and beyond, on traditional and digital platforms.
Thousands of cultural organisations and professionals from Europe would benefit from training to gain new skills and to strengthen their capacity to operate internationally.
2 500 European cinemas would receive support enabling them to ensure that at least 50% of the films they show are European.
More than 5 500 books and other literary works will receive support for translation, which will allow readers to enjoy them in their mother tongue.

Read more here

Start you day with a masterpiece. Internet today is a fabulous source for information and insiration. For ideas and artistic inspirations- check web services which provide access to the most marvellours artworks.

One of them is the World Gallery of Art. To browse, click here.

Madonna dei Pellegrini is a marvellous Caravaggio paintingkept in a chapel of the San`Agostini church in Rome. Caravaggio omitted typical representation of Madonna in this painting. She bears caracteristics of a last muse of the Artist, a cerain Lena. The child is painted in a mannerist way. Two polgrims kneeling in front of her refer to the earthly issues. The painting strikes with its realism.

Madonna dei Pelligrini, known also as Madonna of Loreto

Chiesa San Agostino, Rome

EUROPA NOSTRA AWARDS

The 30 winners, selected from nearly 200 nominated projects, are honoured for their achievements in four areas: conservation, research, dedicated service, and education, training and awareness-raising.

The award ceremony will take place on 16 June at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, in the presence of Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, and Plácido Domingo, the world-renowned opera singer and Europa Nostra President. Karolos Papoulias, President of Greece, has given his patronage to the event and is also expected to attend.

More: European Commission

Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini , La Monnaie, Brussels

Passion and flight end in the solitude of the desert with Manon’s heartrending ‘Ah, non voglio morir!’. This work is an example of an ‘adventure opera’ in which the heroine and her lover, Des Grieux, are taken from France to New Orleans and from the splendour of a Paris apartment to prison and finally deportation. Love and poverty, opportunism and money, desire and murder… All are so intermingled that the novel by Abbé Prévost, which first inspired the composer, was banned on publication in 1731. As for the opera, it met with instant success and confirmed the talent of the young Puccini who set these unforgettable scenes of drama to music. The Polish director Mariusz Trelinski, also head of Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki, makes his debut here at La Monnaie in association with Carlo Rizzi, who once again conducts our orchestra.

European Heritage Label -call for your vote!

The European Heritage Label highlights heritage sites that symbolise and celebrate the integration, ideals and history of the European Union. From monuments and archaeological landmarks, to places of remembrance and cultural landscapes, each site has played a significant role in helping to shape the common history of Europe and the building of the European Union (EU) – a history that binds your nation together with the other Member States.

Part of a rich and vibrant shared heritage, these diverse sites can be found all over Europe, both in your own country, and in those where you might one day choose to travel, work or live. Impressive, interesting, eye-opening, educational – they give you a precious insight into other European cultures and values.

These heritage sites are for all European citizens – and visiting them helps to keep our common history alive.

European Capital of Culture

Brussels was one of the European Capitals of Culture in 2000. Recently the selection committee selected three Dutch towns for this prestigious title for 2018.

The selection panel responsible for evaluating the applications of Dutch cities for the European Capital of Culture 2018, meeting today in Amsterdam, recommended that Eindhoven, Leeuwarden and Maastricht should be preselected for the title. Once this recommendation has been confirmed by the Netherlands, the preselected cities will have to flesh out and complete their applications by summer 2013. The selection panel will meet again in September 2013 to recommend a Dutch city for the title of European Capital of Culture 2018.

Brussels heading to the cultural New Year 2013- great exhibitions planned by Bozar

The Centre for Fine Arts starts the new year with an exceptional programme of exhibitions; true to the Centre's mission, these turn a spotlight on European culture. The exhibitions explore in depth the work of a number of leading artists from neighbouring countries, focusing on 18th-century France and Antoine Watteau, on Germany after the fall of the Wall, via the monumental works of Neo Rauch, and on Ireland, with work by contemporary artists and material from Francis Bacon's archives.

www.bozar.be

Constant Permeke was a Flemish artist, who is considered to be the leading figure of Flemish expressionism. The last major retrospective dedicated to him took place in The Hague in 2004. This autumn, BOZAR in Brussels pays tribute to this distinctive artist.

Born in Antwerp in 1886, Permeke became mostly known for his landscape painting, depicting seas and lands, and hard- working people. Hence, fishermen, peasants and farmers often constitute the main subject of his painting, painting that is full of empathy and understanding, and that draws an invisible line that connects human and nature, emphasizing their unique and intimate bond.

Comprising 130 works (paintings, drawings, and sculptures) the exposition focuses mainly on universal character of Permake’s art. It presents his key works that unveil every aspect of his art, including paintings of the aforementioned landscapes and working people, as well as female nudes and numerous sculptures. What is more, landscape paintings by Thierry De Cordier and nudes by Marlene Dumas, are presented to emphasize and underline Permeke’s contemporary influence and significance.

The exposition lasts until January 20, 2013.

On 15 October 2012 the European Commission will host a conference concerning European exchange of practice on the European Capitals of Culture.

European Capitals of Culture each year document on the diversityof European cultures and demonstrate good effects of intelligent cultural investment on the development of cities. This initiative started in 1985, and it has become one of the European Union's most prestigious initiatives.

The conference will consist of a new proposal of the European Commission for the scheme beyond 2020.

Registration and more information: www.cultureinmotion.eu

September- October 2012

Here is our selection of must-see exhibitions in Europe this autumn

1) Tate Modern, London

Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde

12 September 2012 – 13 January 2013

The Pre- Raphaelites was an artistic group founded in London in 1848, who rejected academic teaching of art, and who drew inspiration from the greatest masters of the Renaissance. The exhibition presents artworks by artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais

http://www.tate.org.uk

2) Musée d’Orsay, Paris

L'impressionnisme et la mode

25 September 2012 - 20 January 2013

Inspired by Charles Baudelaire's essay The Painter of Modern Life (1863) the exhibition of artworks by Monet, Renoir, Degas and other famous Impressionists, focuses mainly on clothing from the late 19th and early 20th century, giving to the audience informative overview of both fashion and art.

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/

3) Musée du Louvre, Paris

On 22 September 2012 the New Department of Islamic Art will be open to the public.

The Louvre is also opening new permanent collections in the new designed exhibition rooms in galleries devoted to the East Mediterranean in the Roman Empire, featuring artworks representing Late Antiquity in Egypt, Rome and Greece.

http://www.louvre.fr/

4) Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza

Gauguin and the Voyage to the Exotic

9 October 2012 - 13 January 2013

Gauguin’s trip to Tahiti is the guiding theme of this exhibition and its main aim is to focus on the results of artistic explorations and experiments, by analyzing artworks by artists such as Gauguin, Matisse, Kandinsky, Klee and Macke. It will also emphasize Gaugain’s role influence on the German Expressionists, as well as the French Fauves.

http://www.museothyssen.org/

5) Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam

Vincent: The Van Gogh Museum in the Hermitage Amsterdam

29 September 2012 - 25 April 2013

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a famous Dutch post-Impressionist painter. This exhibition mainly focuses on the artist’s artistic identity and development, presenting over 75 paintings, selected letters, objects and works and papers.

http://www.hermitage.nl

6) Musée du Luxemburg, Paris

The Modern Art Club- avant-garde collectors in le Havre

19 September 2012- 6 January 2013

The Modern Art Club (Cercle de l’Art modern) was founded in 1906 in Havre by the art collectors. The main aim was to protect and promote the modern art.

Using 90 artworks, the exhibition presents the world of art collectors, as well as some artists connected with the club such as Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy or Emile Othon Friesz .

7 art marvels of Brussels

Brussels attracts tourists from around the world not only because of the European Parliament and other principal EU institutions. The city that has grown from 10^th century fortress town has left delightful historical and artistic output. Here are some of the art marvels of this astonishing city. Here are our 7 reasons to visit Brussels!

1) The Grand Place or Grote Markt

This central square that measures 68 by 11 meters, surrounded by the city’s Town Hall, the Breadhouse ( Maison du Roi) and guildhalls, is one of the most famous and important places in Brussels. In 1998 it was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, as “an outstanding example of the eclectic and highly successful blending of architectural and artistic styles that characterizes the culture and society of this region.”

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/857

2) Brussels Town Hall

Situated at the Grand Place, this Gothic building from the Middle Ages, and still the seat of the Mayor of Brussels, constitutes one of the most recognizable buildings here. The construction of it started in 1402 under Jacob van Thienen’s direction. In 1449 Jan van Ruysbroeck built the characteristic, 96 meter high tower, which is visible from most of the places in Brussels and can be used as a landmark.

http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-town_hall.htm

3) MAGRITTE MUSEUM (ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS)

The Magritte Museum is placed in the building of Belgium’s Royal Museums of Fine Arts. It exhibits works by Rene Magritte- the famous Belgian surrealist artist, who studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1916 to 1918. More than 200 works by this artist may be found there, such as oils on canvas, drawings, photographs as well as films produced by the artist himself.

http://www.musee-magritte-museum.be/Typo3/index.php?id=43

4) The St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral

This Roman Catholic Church is to be found at the Treurenberg Hill. When the Cathedral of St. Michael was completed around 1047, the Duke of Brabant, Lambert II transferred the relicts of Saint Gudula from the Saint Gaugericus Church. St. Michel and St. Gaudula became not only the patron saints of the Cathedral but also of the city of Brussels.

http://www.cathedralestmichel.be/

5) Horta Museum

Victor Horta was a Belgian architect and designer, mainly associated with the Art Nouveau movement. He designed and built for example the Tassel and Solvay hotels. His “Maison and Atelier Horta” was designed in 1898, and it was transformed into the Horta Museum, dedicated to his life and work. The building was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

http://www.hortamuseum.be/

6) Peter Bruegel, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”

“According to Bruegel when Icarus fell it was spring”- this is how William Carlos Williams starts his poem. Breugel painted his vision of the “ignored” death of Icarus in the 1560s..

Until 1912 the painting was believed to be lost. In 1935 a second version of the painting surfaced. The discussion which of the paintings is original is still going on. Both paintings are in Brussels: one in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, and the second one in the collection of the Museum Van Buuren.

7) “The Lamp-Boy (The Lamplighter)”,

Painted in 1880 by James Ensor- a Flemish-Belgian painter and printmaker, associated with expressionism and surrealism movement, and the artistic group “Les XX”. In 1895 the painting was acquired by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels and it has remained there till today.

Life in Brussels

Artist of the month

SPRING 2013

in Brussels

Cultural calendar:

Young Artists

Constant Permeke at Bozar in Brussels

Winter in art - exhibitions in Brussels and other European cities

Paul Delvaux and James Ensor

European Capital of Culture - conference held by the European Commission in Brussels

Art without borders- from Brussels , Brugge and Antwerp and Ghent to Rome, Florence and Paris

[ afternoon ] art academy in Brussels

Afternoon art academy in Brussels

Art in autumn

7 marvels of Brussels

Summer 2012 - Art all around the city