30.1.11

Pensamientos encapsulados



La paciencia es un árbol de amargas raíces y frutos dulces.
Anónimo


Akerman, Memoria, collage 2009


Akerman, Partida, gouache 2003

EL VIAJE
Sólo quiero tu casa de ternura,
vivir en su calor.
Eres el mar y la orilla segura
porque el único viaje es el amor.
Reconocer tu alma, qué aventura
de mágico sabor.
Allí tendré profundidad y altura
porque el único viaje es el amor.
Besos desconocidos como puertos
esperan bajo un cielo de mirada.
-Lo demás es dolor.
Hoy vuelvo de países que están muertos,
después de un mar que no me dijo nada,
porque el único viaje es el amor.

María Elena Walsh


Mariano Akerman, Las cosas que te digo, collage, 2010

Los árboles solitarios, de crecer, crecen fuertes.
Winston Churchill


Un pensamiento de gratitud dirigido al cielo es la expresión más perfecta.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing




Albert Einstein

Nunca consideres el estudio como una obligación, sino como una oportunidad para penetrar en el bello y maravilloso mundo del saber.

Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.

La definición de la locura es continuar haciendo lo mismo y esperar resultados diferentes.

Mi ideal político es el democrático. Todo el mundo debe ser respetado como persona y nadie debe ser divinizado.

Triste época la nuestra. Es más fácil desintegrar un átomo que un prejuicio.

La vida es muy peligrosa. No por las personas que hacen el mal, sino por las que se sientan a ver lo que pasa.

No existe el frio, sino la ausencia de calor. No existe la oscuridad, sino la falta de luz. No existe el mal, sino la ausencia del bien.

La realidad es simplemente una ilusión, aunque muy persistente.

Hay dos formas de ver la vida: una es creer que no existen milagros, la otra es creer que todo es un milagro.

El sentido común no es más que un depósito de prejuicios establecidos en la mente antes de cumplir dieciocho años.

No entiendes realmente algo a menos que seas capaz de explicarselo a tu abuela.

La creatividad nace de la angustia como el día nace de la noche. Es en la crisis donde nace la inventiva, los descubrimientos… Sin crisis no hay desafíos, sin desafíos la vida es una rutina, una lenta agonía. Sin crisis no hay méritos. Es en la crisis donde aflora lo mejor de cada uno, porque sin crisis todo viento es caricia.



La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado. La imaginación abraza el mundo.

La mente intuitiva es un regalo sagrado y la mente racional una sirviente fiel. Hemos creado una sociedad que honra a los sirvientes y que ha olvidado los regalos.

Cuando me examino a mí mismo y mis formas de pensar llego a la conclusión de que el regalo de la fantasía ha significado más para mí que mi talento para absorber el conocimiento positivo.

La experiencia más maravillosa que podemos tener es el misterio; es la emoción fundamental que permanece en la base del arte y la ciencia verdaderos.

Dos cosas me inspiran sobrecogimiento: los cielos estrellados allí arriba y el universo moral interior.



No todo lo que cuenta puede ser contado y no todo lo que puede ser contado cuenta. (Inscripción a la vista de todos en el despacho de Einstein en Princeton).

5.1.11

Video-Clip as Suggestive Stimulus


Argentinean Art - ArgentinArte - Arte Argentino. Three Centuries of Argentinean Art. Tres siglos de Arte Argentino. Maestro de Calamarca, Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Ernesto de la Cárcova, Justo Lynch, Héctor Borla, Emilio Petorutti, Xul Solar, Antonio Berni, Antonio Segui, Carlos Alonso, Mariano Akerman Mariano Akerman, Paintings 1986-90. Motifs from Mariano Akerman's paintings, made in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986-1990. One-man shows at RG en el Arte Fine Art, University of Belgrano, and Bank of Boston Cultural Foundation Fiddler on the Roof. Play performed by the students of the M.G.I.S., Manila, Philippines, December 2006. - El violinista sobre el tejado. Obra representada por los alumnos de M.G.I.S., Manila, Filipinas, 15 de diciembre de 2006. Belgian Art - Art Belge - Belgische Kunst - Arte Belga. Among the achievements of the Belgian artists are the invention of the oil painting technique, the fostering of remarkable pictorial styles and a whole questioning of the notion of "reality" as such. Art Historian Mariano Akerman reveals the singularity and originality of a select group of Belgian masterpieces. He examines their style and meanings, historical context, aesthetic qualities and raison d'etre, appreciating them from unexpected, innovative perspectives. DOUBLE-EDGED 1. Having two edges that can be used; having two cutting edges. 2 Having a dual purpose; having two meanings; effective or capable of being interpreted in two ways. Double-edged sword - literally, a sword which cuts on either side; metaphorically, an argument which makes both for and against the person employing it, or which has a double meaning. Featured: French Medieval hybrid; Giuseppe Arcimboldo; Italian Renaissance grotteschi (sogni dei pittori); Francis Bacon; Quentin Metsys; Keller; Quino; Roman Domus Aurea; Paul-Andreas Weber. DE DOBLE FILO 1. Arma blanca que tiene filo por ambos bordes de la hoja. 2. Cosa o acción que puede obrar en contra de lo que pretende. Incluidos: Híbrido medieval francés; Archimboldo; Grutesco renacentista italiano; Francis Bacon; Quentin Metsys; Keller; Quino; Domus Aurea; Andreas Paul Weber. Ref. Mariano Akerman, video-clips, information, education, record.

4.1.11

26.12.10

German Art Gallery

The German Contribution to the Visual Arts: Select Artwork
by Mariano Akerman


Medieval sculpture. Last Judgement Tympanum: The Damned, Bamberg cathedral, 13th century


Gothic sculpture. Master Heinrich of Constance, The Visitation, c. 1310-20. Polychrome walnut, with gilding and rock crystal cabechons. German sculpture, from Katharienenthal Abbey, Switzerland. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Stephen Lochner, The Madonna in the Rose Bower (Maria am Rosenhag), 1448. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne


Medieval print. Hartmann Schedel, The Monstrous Races: "Blemmyae," from Liber chronicarum (Die Schedelsche Weltchronik, Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten von Hartmann Schedel), woodcut, 1493


Renaissance painting. Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait, 1498


Renaissance print. Moses leads the Children of Israel through the Red Sea, from The Luther Bible, Germany, c. 1530


Christoph Jamnitzer, Neuw Grotteßken Buch (New Book of Grotesques), Nuremberg 1610


Friedrich Unteutsch, Gristly Motif (Knorpelwerk), engraving, 1650


Johann Heinrich Keller, Cartilaginous Grotesque (Knorpelgroteske), engraving, 1680


Rococo engraving. Johann Georg Hertel (after Jeremias Wachsmuth), Winter, Rococo Music, Fancy Dress Ball, etching, 1750-60


Romanticism. Runge, Self-Portrait, oil, 1810


Caspar David Friedrich, The Wreck of Hope, oil, 1823-4. Hamburger Kunsthalle


Realism. Karl Edouard Biermann, Borsig Engineering Work in Berlin (Borsig's Maschinenbau-Anstalt zu Berlin), oil, 1847. Stadtmuseum Berlin


Impressionism. Max Liebermann, Country Tavern at Brannenburg, oil, 1893. Musée d'Orsay, Paris


Jugendstil (Art Nouveau). Ephraim Lilien, "The Covenant of Abraham," Die Bücher der Bible, 1908


Expressionism 1. Die Brücke (The Bridge). Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Girl from Kowno (Madchen aus Kowno), woodcut, 1918. Brücke Museum, Berlin


Expressionism 2. Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). Franz Mark, The White Bull (detail from Cattle), oil, 1913


Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). George Grosz, Café Megalomania, pen and ink, 1915. Galerie St. Etienne, New York


Dada. John Heartfield, Dada Photomontage, 1917


Social Realism. Käthe Kollwitz, The Mothers, woodcut, 1921


Surreal sculpture. Meret Oppenheim, Object (Breakfast in Fur), 1936. Museum of Modern Art, New York


Surreal collage. Max Ernst, She looked slightly like a horse, 1937


Bauhaus. Mies van der Rohe, Model for a Glass Skycreaper (Maquette Glazen Wolkenkrabber), 1922


Totalitarian propaganda. Modern art presented as DEGENERATE "ART" (Entartete "Kunst"). Catalog of Munich 1937 exhibition features on its cover a sculpture by German expressionist artist Otto Freundlich, The New Man (Der neue Mensch), 1912


Karl Schwesig, "Anyone could participate in the beatings," from the Drumstick Cellar (Schlegelkeller−Zyklus), 1935-37. A pen and ink drawing from his (now mostly lost) 48-images series. Düsseldorf Stadtmuseum


John Heartfield, And Yet It Moves, photomontage, 1943


Andreas Paul Weber, March into the Grave, lithograph, 1932


Informalism. Abstract painting by Hans Hartung


Ernst Kahl, The Fighting Dog (Der Kampfhund), on the cover of In the refrigerator light still burns (Im Kühlschrank brennt noch Licht), record, 1996


Anselm Kiefer, Margarete (Dein goldenes Haar, Margarethe), mixed media, 1981



Above-featured artworks were explored by Mariano Akerman along the series of educational lectures and workshops Shape and Meaning, Islamabad and Rawalpindi, November-December 2010


1. Looking at Pictures and Learning from Art
Islamabad College for Girls, 23 November 2010
2. The Grotesque in German Art. Its Nature, Transformations and Importance in Aesthetics
Islamabad College for Girls, 8 December 2010
3. Modern Art
Post-Graduate College for Women, Rawalpindi, 9 December 2010
4. The Bible and the Visual Arts
Khatoon-e-Fatima School, Islamabad, 10 December 2010
5. Bible-inspired Symbolism in German Art
Khatoon-e-Fatima School, Islamabad, 14 December 2010



Shape and Meaning: The German Contribution to the Visual Arts - Five Educational Lectures by Mariano Akerman, German Embassy Islamabad, 3.1.2011, Education & Culture

More on famous German artists:
Albrecht Dürer
Anton Raphael Mengs
Caspar David Friedrich
Max Liebermann
Franz Marc
Max Ernst
Paul Klee
Kathe Kollwitz
Hans Hartung
Anselm Kiefer

25.12.10

German Art Lectures


Shape and Meaning: The German Contribution to the Visual Arts
Educational lectures and workshop program
Islamabad and Rawalpindi, November-December 2010


1. Looking at Pictures and Learning from Art
Islamabad College for Girls, 23 November 2010
400 students
Artworks by Albrech Dürer, Balthasar Küchler, Christoph Jamnitzer, Johann Esaias Nilson, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Ludwig Meidner, Karl Schmidt-Rothluff, Franz Marc, and Max Ernst.


2. The Grotesque in German Art. Its Nature, Transformations and Importance
Islamabad College for Girls, 8 December 2010
380 students
Artworks by Conrad von Megenberg, Hartman Schedel, Albrech Dürer, Christoph Jamnitzer, Simon Cammermeir, Johann Heinrich Keller, Jeremias Waschmuth, Carl Strathmann, Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, Thomas Grunfeld, and Ernst Kahl.


3. Modern Art
Post-Graduate College for Women, Rawalpindi, 9 December 2010
180 students
Artworks by Philipp Otto Runge, Caspar David Friedrich, Karl Eduard Biermann, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Max Laueger, Ephraim Lilien, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ludwig Meidner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Beckmann, Franz Marc, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Karl Schwesig, John Heartfield [Helmut Herzfeld], Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Hartung, and Anselm Kiefer.


4. The Bible and the Visual Arts
Khatoon-e-Fatima School, Islamabad, 10 December 2010
152 students
Students were introduced to a meaningful relation between archaeological evidence and Gerrman imagery inspired by the Bible. All biblical themes were explored via German artworks, among which The Creation, Adam and Eve, The Tower of Babel, Noah's Ark, Abraham contemplating the Stars, Moses and the Children of Israel crossing the Red Sea, The God Prophet, The Annuciation to Mary, The Visitation, The Virgin Mary and Baby Emmanuel, The Three Kings, Mother and Child, The Rose Garden, Young Jesus teaching in the Temple, and Jerusalem as City of Light.


5. Bible-inspired Symbolism in German Art
Khatoon-e-Fatima School, Islamabad, 14 December 2010
160 students
Students were introduced to a meaningful relation between archaeological evidence and Gerrman imagery inspired by the Bible. All biblical themes were explored via German artworks, among which The Creation, The Tower of Babel, Noah's Ark, Abraham contemplating the Stars, Moses and the Children of Israel crossing the Red Sea, The God Prophet, The Annuciation to Mary, The Visitation, The Virgin Mary and Baby Emmanuel, The Three Kings, Mother and Child, The Rose Garden, Young Jesus teaching in the Temple, and Jerusalem as City of Light.



Shape and Meaning: The German Contribution to the Visual Arts - Five Educational Lectures by Mariano Akerman, German Embassy Islamabad, 3.1.2011, Education & Culture