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Some drawings and prints not only show various sleighs and people skating – there are sailing vessels, mounted on long skates, gliding across the ice. Such mounted sailing boats, resembling modern beach sailing carts, reached considerable speeds.
In 1928 Julio González was approached in Paris by his friend Pablo Picasso who needed help in executing some metal sculptures. González, a painter and sculptor in his own right, was happy to oblige and it was the start of a four year fruitful relationship . . .
Ai Weiwei, internationally renowned contemporary artist, is not one to shun the banality of social media. In fact, he began blogging in 2005, only to have his blog shut down in 2009. He turned to Twitter, claiming to have spent up to eight hours a day on the site.
What makes this exhibition so special is not just tracing Jongkind’s influence on Monet and other famous French painters, it’s that many of the works are exhibited for the first time in the Netherlands. A rare chance to see many of these paintings – and what Jongkind called Holland’s most beautiful town.
Eijkelboom’s work is entirely based on photographs, but one would not describe him as a photographer. He is a conceptual artist whose tool is the camera and whose means of expression is the photographic image. His pictures are not “good” photographs either, just glorified snap-shots.
As one of the rare Dutch press photographers, Jeroen Oerlemans often worked in areas of crisis. He travelled to Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq on a regular basis. Whether they concerned wars, natural disasters, famines or the refugees crisis, the reports he made during his travels managed to give world problems a human face.
Visitors to Amsterdam’s van Gogh Museum are currently treated to “The Dutch in Paris”. This exhibition sprawls over three floors of the museum’s exhibition wing. Its theme is the influence of French and Dutch painters upon each other, from about 1789 to 1914.
