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Dreamscapes: a longing to get away from it all
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When a bowl is not a bowl: The yin and yang of artist Britta Kathmeyer
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Kandinsky is one of several renowned artists whose work is thought to have been inspired by his time trodding the paths of Bavarian countryside in the early 20th century. Photo: dpa
It s one of those quandaries that many summer visitors to Munich, Germany face: How best to balance their precious time between the Bavarian capital with all its cultural attractions, against some sightseeing in the gorgeously beautiful countryside just beyond the city’s outskirts?
Five art museums have banded together to offer travellers a solution.
It’s called “MuSeenLandschaft Expressionismus” – a word creation that means “museums landscape” but also “lakes landscape.” It’s a different and more immersive take on gallery visits, allowing art lovers to first see world-famous art works and then set off on the same nearby paths where the artists found inspiration from stunning scenery.
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The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie is from the May 2021 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.
What’s the best way to paint an apricot in oils? In 1663, the 30-year-old amateur painter Mary Beale laid out her method:
Let yor shadowes bee pinke & Lake and Bury oker & in some places […] according as ye life requireth it a litle fine Ultramarine: in some other places where ye shadowes are glowing & ffaint as they are sometimes in ye Crowne there touch upon yor generall rendering with pinke & Vermilion mixed together.
This apricot advice is the first known piece of writing on art by a woman, a statement of technical capacity that reflects Beale’s ambition to be considered a serious artist in the years before she sold a painting. A decade on, she was a hugely successful portraitist in London, taking in 83 commissions in one year at the height of her popularity.
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