Dat reken ik goed: Medizin is de titel.quote:Op woensdag 21 februari 2007 16:26 schreef Lienekien het volgende:
Artsenij?
quote:Despite the attacks, Klimt presented Medicine (figure) at the 10th exhibition of the Secession group in 1901. Medicine resembled Philosophy, with a column of naked figures beside which a nude young female, representing Life, floated in space, with a newborn infant in front of her feet. Death was represented as a skeleton placed centrally, in the river of life, which was formed by the human bodies. At the bottom of the picture the dominating figure of Hygieia confronted the spectator with the Aesculapian snake around her arm, holding the cup of Lethe [oblivion]. The only links between the drifting bodies and Life were provided by Life's extended arm and the arm of a male nude shown from the back. It was obvious that the painter wanted to emphasise the powerlessness of the healing arts and made no attempt to represent the triumph of medicine in the way that doctors would expect. An editorial in the Medizinische Wochenschrift complained that the painter had ignored doctors' two main achievements, prevention and cure. At a time when Vienna was leading the world in medical research thanks to the pioneering work of doctors such as Theodor Billroth (1829-94), Frantisek Chvostek (1835-84), and Ludwig Türck (1810-68) Klimt presented medicine's field as “a fantasmagoria of half dreaming humanity, sunk in instinctual semisurrender, passive in the flow of fate.”
Art critics attacked Klimt's work, saying that the project was beyond his intellectual level. Vienna's most trenchant journalist, Karl Kraus, scornfully described Medicine as a painting in which the chaotic confusion of decrepit bodies symbolises the situation in a state hospital. Accusations of pornography were also raised; the public prosecutor was called in, and, although he did not proceed to action, the issue reached parliament —the first time that a cultural debate had ever been raised there. The education minister again defended Klimt's work, but when Klimt was once again elected to a professorship at the Academy in 1901, the government refused to ratify the election. He was never offered a teaching post anywhere again.
Klopt! Allegory of the linking of the two seas: de Middellandse Zee en de Rode Zee.quote:Op donderdag 22 februari 2007 10:52 schreef Lienekien het volgende:
Het Suez-kanaal.
Hallelujah, hallelujah - dat 't weer terecht is- hallelujah !quote:Op donderdag 22 februari 2007 12:23 schreef KroJo het volgende:
Nog een erg mooie allegorie (en een erg bekend werk, dat een tijdje terug gestolen werd maar godzijdank weer terecht is):
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het is en toepasbaar serviesstuk. wat dus met een bepaald doel op (eet)tafel kan staan, de allegorische figuren symboliseren ook weer de toepassingquote:Op donderdag 22 februari 2007 12:37 schreef Gellius het volgende:
Enfin, aan het werk: Poseidon/Neptunus, hmmn?
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