The tyranny of art
10 months, 1 week ago

The tyranny of art

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI : It is Gautama Buddha’s birthday today. We adorn our homes with ceramic Buddhas on our walls and in our gardens — where he silently smiles at us with half-closed eyes, imploring us to trade our hates for tenderness. The Bamiyan Buddhas, dating back to the 5th century AD, were one of the tallest standing statues of Buddha in the world. Almost 6,00,000 works of art by acclaimed artists were confiscated during the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and most of them were destroyed. As the Nazis spread their reign of terror, art that was modern was systematically destroyed and the artists had to either conform or flee.

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Painting banned by Nazis and lost for 80 years stuns art world as it sells for £6m at auction
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Painting banned by Nazis and lost for 80 years stuns art world as it sells for £6m at auction

The Independent  

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The tyranny of art
10 months, 1 week ago

The tyranny of art

New Indian Express  

So, what made him unleash his fury on seemingly harmless works of art? As the Nazis spread their reign of terror, art that was modern was systematically destroyed and the artists had to either conform or flee. Art took another blow from Communism in Russia when Josef Stalin came to power. The Soviet Communist Party went on a rampage against …

Should a painting by a Nazi still hang in a prominent gallery?
2 years, 2 months ago

Should a painting by a Nazi still hang in a prominent gallery?

The Independent  

In the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich’s sleek museum of modern art, hangs a painting that still sparks fierce controversy nearly a century after it was painted. The Four Elements is currently being exhibited in “Mix & Match,” a bold new rehang of the Pinakothek der Moderne’s permanent collection, which marks the museum’s 20th birthday. As the Pinakothek der Moderne stated, …

If art tells a story and does not do propaganda on behalf of victims, it loses its purpose: What Nadav Lapid needs to learn
2 years, 4 months ago

If art tells a story and does not do propaganda on behalf of victims, it loses its purpose: What Nadav Lapid needs to learn

Op India  

Propaganda – The word owes its origin to an entity called The Sacred Congregation for Propagation of the Faith. When Nadav Lapid, the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel film-maker invited as a guest at the International Film Festival of India organised by the Government of India, called Vivek Agnihotri’s telling of the true and factual story of brutal violence in Kashmir in …

Opinion: Paintings By Adolf Hitler Are 'Unremarkable,' So Why Forge Them?
6 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: Paintings By Adolf Hitler Are 'Unremarkable,' So Why Forge Them?

NPR  

Opinion: Paintings By Adolf Hitler Are 'Unremarkable,' So Why Forge Them? Enlarge this image toggle caption Daniel Karmann/AFP/Getty Images Daniel Karmann/AFP/Getty Images If you saw some of these paintings — of flowers, fields and foggy townscapes — for sale at a summer art fair, you might point at one to say, "Well, maybe for the guest bathroom." That same auction …

Unearthed: A Hidden Treasure of Nazi-Era Art
7 years, 5 months ago

Unearthed: A Hidden Treasure of Nazi-Era Art

CNN  

The discovery of over 1,400 works of art in a shabby apartment in Munich in 2012 has shed new light on a dark period in Germany's history. The vast collection, including works by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and August Rodin, was uncovered in the home of Cornelius Gurlitt, an art collector who dealt in works for the Nazis. The show, …

Hoarder of suspected Nazi-looted art: I won’t ‘give back anything’
11 years, 4 months ago

Hoarder of suspected Nazi-looted art: I won’t ‘give back anything’

LA Times  

“I won’t voluntarily give back anything.” So said Cornelius Gurlitt, who was revealed to be holding more than 1,400 possibly Nazi-looted works of art in his Munich apartment, in his first interview since the bombshell discovery was made public in late October. In the interview, Gurlitt claimed that “I never had anything to do with acquiring the pictures, only with …

Lift the veil from the Nazi art cache
11 years, 4 months ago

Lift the veil from the Nazi art cache

LA Times  

Grainy photographs of what appears to be a lithograph by Otto Dix show a bourgeois matron rendered as a ghoulish skull adorned in an outlandish feathered hat, her sunken eyes glowering from beneath a lacy brim and her fur collar a blazing red inferno. Toss in the possibility that, according to reports, somewhere between 200 and 300 of the works …

The paintings Hitler couldn't steal
14 years, 11 months ago

The paintings Hitler couldn't steal

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. His boss, the legendary French art collector Ambroise Vollard, had recently died in a car …

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