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Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Thousands strip for photo shoot
Mon May 7, 2007 8:57AM EDT

By Tomas Sarmiento

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A record 18,000 people took off their clothes to pose for U.S. photographic artist Spencer Tunick Sunday in Mexico City's Zocalo square, the heart of the ancient Aztec empire.

Tunick, who has raised eyebrows by staging mass nude photo shoots in cities from Dusseldorf, Germany, to Caracas, smashed his previous record of 7,000 volunteers set in 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

Directing with a megaphone, Tunick shot a series of pictures with his Mexican models simultaneously raising their arms, then lying on their backs in the square as well as another scene on a side street with volunteers arranged in the shape of an arrow.

Hundreds of police kept nosy onlookers away during the nippy early-morning shoot, and a no-fly zone was declared above the plaza.

One of the world's biggest and most imposing squares, the Zocalo is framed by a cathedral, city hall and the National Palace official seat of government, which is adorned with murals by Diego Rivera.

A ruined temple next to it was once the center of the Aztec civilization and was used for worship and human sacrifice. Spanish conquistadors used bricks from the temple to help build their own capital.

Some participants said the massive turnout showed that Mexicans, at least in the capital, were becoming less prudish.

Mexicans are not used to showing skin. Most men wear shorts only while on vacation, and women tend not to put on miniskirts because of unwanted whistles and stares.

"This event proves that really we're not such a conservative society anymore. We're freeing ourselves of taboos," said Fabiola Herrera, a 30-year-old university professor who volunteered to strip, along with her boyfriend.

The capital of the world's second-biggest Catholic nation, where tough-guy masculinity and family loyalty are held dear, has recently challenged some important traditions.

Last month, Mexico City legislators legalized abortion in defiance of criticism from church officials.

Also, gay couples are getting hitched in civil ceremonies thanks to recently passed laws in the capital, and lawmakers plan to debate whether to legalize euthanasia.

Not all Mexicans were impressed by the spectacle staged by Tunick, who was refused permission to hold his nude photo at the famed Teotihuacan pyramids outside the capital.

"They're losing dignity as men and women," said 63-year-old Armando Pineda, leaning against the cathedral and watching the now-dressed models leave the plaza. "It's an offense against the church."

The Mexico City metropolitan area is home to some 18 million people.

djaguard · Pristupio: 19 Jan 2007 Poruke: 1172 Studijska grupa: Psihologija

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Sezanov rad za 25.5 miliona dolara

Akvarel koji je pri kraju svoje karijere naslikao Sezan prodat je za 25.5 miliona dolara na umetničkoj aukciji održanoj u Njujorku.

Slika pod nazivom „Nature Morte au Melon Vert“ postavila je novi rekord kada su cene slika impresionista u pitanju, izjavili su predstavnici aukcijske kuće Sotheby.

Na aukciji, koja je ostvarila profit od 280 miliona dolara, našla su se i dva dela koja je naslikao Pikaso i koja su prodata za ukupnu sumu od 30 miliona dolara.

Pored Sezanove mrtve prirode, veliku zaradu ostvarilo je i delo „Jesuits III“ Lajonela Fajningera (Lyonel Feininger), koje je prodato za 23.2 miliona dolara.

Prihod koji je ostvarilo Sezanovo delo predstavlja najveću zaradu u istoriji aukcijske kuće Sotheby.

Slika „Nature Morte au Melon Vert“ prodata je u ime njenog dosadašnjeg vlasnika, umetničkog kolekcionara Đuzepea Eskenazija (Giuseppe Eskenazi), i smatra se da je ovo bio najvredniji akvarel koji se nalazio u jednoj privatnoj kolekciji.

Akvarel je do svoje poslednje aukcije još dva puta menjao vlasnika.

Poslednji put je 1989. godine, za 2.5 miliona dolara, sliku prodao železnički penzioni fond Velike Britanije.

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Hindu Painter on Trial

New Delhi: Renowned artist M F Husain is in the news again, this time too for all the wrong reasons. In a case related to his alleged obscene depiction of Hindu goddesses in paintings, a court has ordered Mumbai police to attach Husain’s properties.

A court in Haridwar declared Husain a ‘proclaimed offender’ for repeatedly ignoring the legal summons and not appearing in the case.

On Sunday, the Mumbai Police pasted a notice on the door of his flat at Jolly Makers-III building in Cuffe Parade. However, the painter’s family refused to comment on police action initiating attachment of his property. The family termed the episode as "media rubbish" and said "for details, the family lawyer in India can be contacted".

The artist had faced a scathing attack from Hindu fundamentalists for his semi nude paintings of 'Bharatmata' and 'Krishna' that were found to be “offending” and in bad taste to the religious sensibilities.

A lawyer, Arvind Srivastava, had filed a petition against him in 2005 and said that the paintings were semi-nude and had hurt religious sentiments of Hindus.

This picture shows Hanuman burning the island of Sri Lanka with a torch as Sita hangs on to his tail. The accusers are saying Husain meant to depict Sita masturbating. Perversion is indeed in the eyes of the beholder.

Husain, who is in Dubai for the past one year, is currently away on a personal work to Qatar. The artist, shuttling between Dubai and London, continues to stay away from India reportedly due to fears that he may be arrested in connection with the case.

Hussain, one of the highest-paid painters in the world, is a recipient of India's civilian awards Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. He has also made feature films, like Through the Eyes of a Painter and Gajagamini, the former winning the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Hussain has also written lyrics for two songs for the film Meenaxi.

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Mumbai: The efforts of the Mumbai police to bring painter M.F. Husain before a Hardwar court hit a roadblock on Monday as the title of a house here that was sought to be attached as part of the proceedings was found to be in his son Shafat's name. The case involves alleged insult to religious icons through a work of art.

"The Collectorate has informed us that the property is in his son's name... the title of the property is said to have been changed to Shafat's name some days ago," a police officer said. The property cannot be seized unless it belongs to the accused, and the Mumbai police have written to the Collector to find out if Mr. Husain owned any other property in the city, he said.

The change of title had been ratified at the annual general meeting of the building's owners recently, he said.

Seeking to implement the orders of the Hardwar court, the Mumbai police on Saturday begun attachment proceedings relating to the apartment in Jolly Makers-III in Cuffe Parade.

The court of Special Judicial Magistrate K.S. Shukla ordered the attachment after the 91-year-old artist, who is now abroad, failed to respond to summons to appear before it. The last hearing was on April 13.

Mavro Kazafranka · Administrator

10. maj 2007. | Tanjug

Novi izgled Narodnog muzeja 2010.

Autor projekta rekonstrukcije Narodnog muzeja prof. dr MIlan Rakočević i direktorka muzeja Tatjana Cvjetićanin 9. maja proveli su novinare kroz sve delove zgrade na Trgu Republike, objasnivši kako će izledati novo zdanje koje bi po završetku radova, maja 2010. godine, trebalo da raspolaže sa 13.500 kvadratnih metara prostora, za trećinu više nego sada.

Narodni muzej, osnovan 10. maja 1844. godine, svoju stalnu postavku zatvorio je 2003. godine, a u avgustu će u potpunosti zatvoriti svoja vrata do završetka rekonstrukcije, adaptacije i dogradnje.

Rakočević je predstavnike medija proveo kroz sve nivoe zgrade, "ispeo" ih na krov, da bi stekli pravu sliku stanja u kome se muzej nalazi.

U srcu grada, iza fasade zdanja na centralnom gradskom trgu, iz "ptičje perspektive" jedino su bili vidljivi napušteni, ili zapušteni delovi središta zgrade, koje pre podseća na skladišta na periferiji na koja su svi odavno zaboravili.

Situacija je, kako je primetio Rakočević, potpuno neprimerena instituciji kakva je nacionalni muzej, koja, u najstrožem centru prestonog grada, predstavlja temelj našeg postojanja, našu istoriju, ali i budućnost.

Zato rekonstrukcija, smatra on, ima i širi kotekst.

O tome koliko blago čuva Narodni muzej, koji sa 400.000 eksponata koji obuhvataju 9.000 godina istorije i kulture civilizacije sa ovih prostora, svedoči i činjenica da će za njegovo iseljavanje, koje sledi u avgustu, biti potrebno 120 kamiona od pet tona nosivosti. Oni će punih šest dana iznositi tek veći deo kolekcije, ilustrovala je Cvjetićanin.

Za dve godine trebalo bi da budu gotovi građevinski radovi koji će zgradu muzeja potpuno promeniti.

Umesto atrijuma u prizemlju i dva sprata, koliki je sada izložbeni prostor, u "novom" muzeju to će biti jedinstven izložbeni prostor na svih šest nivoa.

Predviđeno je da muzej ima samo spoljašnje zidove i stubove, dok bi centralni prostor bio prazan i zahvaljujući krovu - "staklenoj kupoli" primao bi prirodnu svetlost, ali kontrolisano, da ne naudi eksponatima.

Iz svakog dela muzeja bio bi vidljiv kompletan izložbeni prostor.

Sadašnje stepenište, koje dobrim delom doprinosi utisku muzeja- lavirinta, čini čak 25 odsto površine zgrade.

Projekat dozvoljava i "poigravanje sa prostorom", kako je rekla direktorka muzeja, odnosno promenu prostora zahvaljujući pokretnim zidovima.

Kompletan muzej će zadovoljavati sve svetske standarde, počev od klimatizacije i čuvanja eksponata, koji su do sada, što se toga tiče, bili potpuno nebezbedni, najpre zbog vlage u muzeju.

Jedino neće biti rušeno ono što predstavlja istorijat tog zdanja izgrađenog 1803. godine. To će biti rekonstruisano sa posebnom pažnjom, dodao je Rakočević.

Krov zgrade će biti u istoj ravni što sada nije slučaj i na njemu će se nalaziti restoran i kafe-čitaonica sa jedinstvenim pogledom na srce grada, objasnio je autor projekta.

Na njemu je radilo više od 70 stručnjaka i sadrži čak 56 elaborata.

Rekonstrukcija će, ako sve bude išlo po planu, koštati 25 do 27 miliona evra.

Četvrtina je već obezbeđena iz sredstava nacionalnog investicionog plana, a ostalo bi trebalo da pritiče sukcesivno, tokom narednih godina.

Napominjući da Muzej mora biti urađen po standardima, a ne po našim merilima, Rakočević je, ukazujući na značaj institucije kakva je nacionalni muzej, objasnio da će njegova rekonstrukcija svakog stanovnika Srbije zapravo koštati dve kutije cigareta koje kupi za svoj ceo život.

Cvtjetićanin je napomenula da je, koristeći iskustva rekonstrukcija drugih muzeja u svetu, naš "pametno" projektovan, tako da će zadovoljiti sve standarde za duplo manje para nego što su to učinili oni sa manjim prostorom od našeg zdanja. Govoreći o tehničkim detaljima ona je rekla da će kompletan muzej odjednom biti iseljen da bi odjednom moglo sve što treba da se ruši i gradi i da je već obezbeđen depo za eksponate.

U muzeju su, međutim, u iščekivanju iznalaženja prostora za zaposlene koji treba da nastave svoj posao kako bi spremno bio dočekan završetak rekonstrukcije.

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Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Woman faces charges for kissing painting

Sat Jul 21, 2:56 PM ET

MARSEILLE, France - A woman has been arrested on suspicion of kissing a painting by American artist Cy Twombly and smudging the bone-white canvas with her lipstick, French judicial officials said Saturday.

Police said they arrested the woman after she kissed the work on Thursday. She is to be tried in a court in the southern city of Avignon on Aug. 16 for "damage to a work of art," judicial officials said.

The painting, which is worth an estimated $2 million, was on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon. It is part of an exhibition slated to run at the museum through Sept. 30. Officials did not provide further details on the painting.

Twombly is known for his abstract paintings combining painting and drawing techniques, repetitive lines and the use of graffiti, letters and words.

Born in Lexington, Va., in 1928, Twombly has lived in Italy for nearly a half- century. He won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Van Gogh painting revealed as fake
Fri Aug 3, 6:33 AM ET

MELBOURNE, Australia - A painting attributed to Vincent Van Gogh for more than 70 years was said to be a fake Friday, after art experts found it was probably painted by one his peers.

The director of Australia's National Gallery of Victoria, Gerard Vaughan, said a specialist team at the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands found the painting had strong stylistic differences from the Dutch artist's other works, and was mostly likely painted by one of his contemporaries.

The painting, "Head of a Man," was brought to Australia in 1939 as part of a contemporary art exhibit owned by Keith Murdoch, father of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

The piece became stranded in Australia with the outbreak of World War II, and the gallery bought it in 1940 for around $3,500.

"It was purchased as a Van Gogh work, and had been accepted as a Van Gogh for more than a decade before the (gallery's) purchase," Vaughan said in a statement.

He stressed the painting had simply been misattributed to Van Gogh.

"It is very important to make the point that it's not a forgery," he told reporters. "There is no evidence to suggest that someone produced this picture ... to pass it off as a work by Van Gogh."

The painting's authenticity was first called into question last August when it was on show at the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Critics said the work, dated 1886, was of a different style to other Van Gogh paintings of the same period and was not mentioned in any of the Dutch master's letters.

When the exhibit closed, the National Gallery of Victoria sent the painting — a portrait of a bearded, curly haired man against a brownish background — to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam for verification.

As a Van Gogh, the painting had been valued at around $21 million.

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Modiljani premijerno u Beogradu

Na konferenciji za štampu u Starom dvoru iz Beograda je 25. septembra u svet odaslata senzacionalna vest da je otkriveno do sada nepoznato delo čuvenog italijanskog slikara Amedea Modiljanija "Portret muškarca" koje će prvi put i biti izloženo u prestonici Srbije krajem novembra.

Slika je vlasništvo kolekcionara koji nije želeo da otkrije identitet, ali je poznato da je srpskog porekla, Beograđanin koji živi u inostranstvu i po njegovoj izričitoj želji prva vest o njenom postojanju objavljena je u Beogradu.

Prema usmenom dogovoru sa vlasnikom slike i njeno prvo javno predstavljanje biće na izložbi u Beogradu krajem novembra.

Sliku neće prodavati, omogućiće njeno izlaganje svim manifestacijama koje je budu potraživale, a na kraju će je ustupiti Srbiji.

Na konferenciji za štampu, na kojoj su, pored predstavnika gradske vlade Dragane Zeljković, bili i predsednik "Modiljani instituta Pariz-Rim" Kristijan Parizo, direktor Instituta za atomsku fiziku "Ars mensure" u Rimu Stefano Ridolfi i direktorka Italijanskog instituta za kulturu u Beogradu Aleksandra Bertini Malgarini, rečeno je da se autentičnost slike utvrđivala punih 17 godina.

Stručnjak za utvđivanje autentičnosti umetničkih dela Ridolfi objasnio je naučne metode koje se primenjuju u poslednjih pet godina i koje su dovele do konačnog utvrđivanja autentičnosti slike čuvenog portretiste Modiljanija, jednog od najuticajnijih predstavnika pariske škole.

Slika je iz 1918. godine, formata 38 x 46 santimetara i mada je Modiljani u 90 odsto slučajeva portretisao muškarce i to istaknute osobe iz javnog života, nije poznato ko je na novootkrivenoj slici.

Kako je objasnio Parizo, reč je o mladiću, koji bi, sudeći po frizuri i odelu mogao biti muzičar, ili pisac.

Parizo je rekao da ova slika ne spada u remek delo Modiljanija koga svrstavaju među sedam najvećih slikara, ali da će svakako zauzeti značajno mesto u njegovom opusu.

Portret je naslikan za nekoliko minuta, razblaženim bojama, a slikarski materijal koji je za njega upotrebljen odlikuje siromaštvo, što, s obzirom da je nastao za vreme Prvog svetskog rata, ne čudi, primetio je predsednik Modiljani instituta.

Vlasnik slike, za sada "bezimeni" kolekcionar, je prema objašnjenju Parizoa, pre 17 godina došao u Modiljani institut i rekao da pretpostavlja da je reč o Modiljaniju i da želi da se ispita da li je to tačno. Otkrio je još i to da je slika u njegovom vlasništvu znatno duže i da je dobio veliki broj ponuda za plasiranje vesti o novootkrivenoj slici, ali da je izričito želeo da to bude urađeno u Beogradu.

O vlasniku slike je još rekao da nije bogati američki kolekcionar, niti ima državljanstvo zemalja koje važe za poreski raj.

"Rasizam je kada neko misli da samo bogati kolekcionari imaju autentične slike", napomenuo je Parizo.

Modiljani (1884-1920), italijanski Jevrej, studirao je slikarstvo i skulpturu u Italiji, ali se 1906. preselio u Pariz gde se uključio u krug umetnika stranaca (Fudžita) koji se danas smatraju pripadnicima "pariske škole".

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Return of Devil's Bible to Prague draws crowds

A visitor looks at the Devil's Bible during an opening of an exibition at the Czech National Library in Prague, Wednesday. The manuscript was written in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlazice in Bohemia, and during the Middle Ages was regarded as a wonder of the world.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible — a medieval manuscript said to have been written 800 years ago with the devil's help — has returned to Prague after an absence of 359 years.

And Czechs were eager to see it, officials said Friday.

The priceless piece, considered the biggest medieval book, was taken from the Prague Castle by Swedish troops at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. It is in Prague on loan from Sweden's Royal Library in Stockholm. It was put on display under high security at the Czech National Library.

Its return to Prague for Sept 20 — Jan 6 exhibition was made possible after years of negotiations between Czech and Swedish diplomats, National Library spokeswoman Katerina Novakova said.

"We expected big interest from the public," Novakova said. "Now, we are 100% full."

Only 60 people per hour can enter an air-conditioned room in the library's medieval complex in downtown Prague for a 10-minutes look at the manuscript, which is inside a specially designed, unbreakable case, she said.

According to myth, a Benedictine monk promised to write the book overnight to atone for his sins. When he realized the task was impossible, he asked the devil for help. The page with the illustration of the devil is the one visitors see.

The manuscript was likely written by one monk from the Benedictine monastery in Podlazice located some 100 kilometers (65 miles) east of Prague sometime at the beginning of the 13th century, said Zdenek Uhlir, a specialist on medieval manuscripts at the National Library.

It contains "a sum of the Benedictine order's knowledge" of the time, including the Old and New Testament, "The War of the Jews" by the first-century historian Josephus Flavius, a list of saints, or a guideline how to determine the date of Easter, Uhlir said.

"I would estimate it took him between 10 and 12 years to write," he said about the piece, which weighs 75 kilograms (165 pounds). Originally, it had 640 pages, of which 624 survived in relatively good condition, he said.

The book was transported to the Czech Republic in a military plane. Authorities would not give any details about security measures adopted at the library. It has previously been displayed in New York and Berlin.

Mavro Kazafranka · Administrator

Izložba “Graphic Modernism From the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935” se održava u Njujorku, u Narodnoj Biblioteci (New York Public Library) od 05. 10. do 27. 01. '08. i predstavlja pregled prožimanja nacionalnih preporoda i novih književnih i umetničkih tendencija i pokreta sa početka dvadesetog veka u istočnoevropskim zemljama.

Evo članka iz New York Timesa:

From World War I, a New Visual Language and Many Dialects

Photographs by Damon Winter/The New York Times

The exhibition “Graphic Modernism From the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935” at the New York Public Library. Above, a display containing designs from journals and literary magazines.

By KAREN ROSENBERG
Published: October 13, 2007

After World War I, the fledgling nations of Eastern and Central Europe needed a new visual language to go along with their brand-new map. Modernism offered a rallying cry for diverse populations, a calling card with which to impress the West and, most of all, a fresh start.

Much as the Museum of Modern Art’s recent Dada exhibition partitioned an international movement into separate cities, the New York Public Library’s “Graphic Modernism From the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935” gives a nationalist spin to a continentwide phenomenon. One of several recent shows to mine the library’s extensive Slavic holdings, it is smaller and quieter than the debutante ball that was the library’s “Russia Engages the World” show.

The curators, S. A. Mansbach and Wojciech Jan Siemaszkiewicz, have pulled rare books, journals and ephemera from the library’s Slavic and Baltic division. Tattered, date-stamped and marked with the names of immigrant readers, these materials show new and reconstituted countries embracing the aesthetics of Modern art and design (though not always the radical politics.)

The exhibition recasts the tiny and stuffy Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery into a red-and-black theater of literature and propaganda, with a soundtrack of Bartok, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. The Soviet-inspired design is echoed in the catalog, which includes a lengthy essay on the development of the library’s Slavic division. As an organizing principle, geography can be confusing, as movements like Constructivism, Expressionism and Surrealism did not respect national boundaries. A large wall map of Eastern Europe, from about 1930, is a helpful primer. World War I dissolved the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, and made independent states of Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia. Russia lost Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and became the Soviet Union.

The library’s grand tour of Eastern Europe (which moves, roughly, from West to East) begins in Berlin. That city had absorbed more than 300,000 Russians, in addition to other east-central European refugees, and its relative political freedom and low cost of living made it a hub of avant-garde activity.

Visually, this is the show’s strongest segment, with works by the graphic designer El Lissitzky, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Bauhaus instructor Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Included are classic examples of suprematist design by Lissitzky, who served as a Russian cultural ambassador. His children’s book “Pro Dva Kvadrata” (“About Two Squares”) pits the Red Square of Communism against the Black Square of convention; “Dlia Golosa” (“For the Voice”), a collaboration with Mayakovsky, features an unusual thumb index and striking title pages for each poem.

The new and re-established nations of Czechoslovakia and Poland, which encompassed multiple ethnic groups, were home to competing visions of Modernism. The Western Polish literary periodical Zdroj modeled itself after German Expressionism, as shown by a Kandinsky-inspired cover from 1918. The Warsaw-based journal Grafika, meanwhile, emphasized the functional, commercial possibilities of Modern design.

Over in Prague, the artist and writer Karel Teige combined elements of Cubism and Constructivism into the mystical, utopian Devetsil movement. His rhythmic compositions, celebrated in a 2001 exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery, glorify city life with mazes of thin lines over floating rectangles.

In the Southern Balkans, Modern did not necessarily mean abstract. The Bulgarian Sirak Skitnik designed a book cover featuring a graphic procession of nuns in a stylized landscape. Religious and folkloric tradition had less of a hold in ethnically diverse Yugoslavia and Slovenia, where the journals Zenit and Tank paid homage to Constructivist geometry and Dada typography. A copy of Tank shows a bold red triangle (echoes of Lissitzky’s red wedge) and repeats the title in tiers of successively smaller type.

The avant-garde played a marginal role in Hungary and Romania, which emerged from the war with strong national identities and conservative royalist governments intact. In Budapest Modernism had a champion in the poet and editor Lajos Kassak; his face appears on the cover of his book “35 Vers” (“35 Poems”), overlaid with large, red sans-serif type on a diagonal slant.

Romania had a group of energetic young Dadaists (the show’s catalog goes so far as to assert that Dada originated in Bucharest), including Victor Brauner, who would go on to become a Surrealist based in France.

Then as now, advertisers cashed in on the counterculture. The cigarette rolling-paper company Modiano established relationships with Hungarian artists, publishing a multivolume survey of its favorites. On the cover of Volume 4, created by Janos Tabor, the letter O has been enlarged to accommodate the figure of a smoking man. As a suavely commercial use of Modernist design, it stands out in this literary context.

The Baltic republics kept their distance from revolutionary politics, using Expressionism to describe the horrors of war and a more generic Modernist vocabulary to bolster their newfound governments. Modernism in this region also took on an erotic charge; the Latvian graphic artist Eriks Kalis created a book cover for a romance novel set on an urban bus that featured a triangle penetrating a sphere.

Other graphic artists were more explicit: Sigmunds Vidbergs drew a female nude reclining on geometric forms, while Ferdynand Ruszczyc used the negative space between two heads of wheat to convey an image of agrarian fertility.

For a brief period in East and Central Europe, Modernism was unusually organic. Artists sampled its various strains, blended it with figurative styles and injected it with local folklore. Everywhere, it went hand in hand with a progressive, optimistic outlook — until the next war redrew the map yet again.

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

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'Oldest' wall painting looks like modern art

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 6:56pm BST 11/10/2007

French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old work of art in northern Syria which is the oldest known wall painting, even though it looks like a work by a modernist.

The painting resembles the work of Paul Klee

The two square-metre painting, in red, black and white, was found at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the Euphrates, northeast of the city of Aleppo.

"It looks like a modernist painting," said Eric Coqueugniot, the team leader. "Some of those who saw it have likened it to work by (Paul) Klee. Through carbon dating we established it is from around 9,000 BC."

"We found another painting next to it, but that won't be excavated until next year. It is slow work," said Mr Coqueugniot, who works at France's National Centre for Scientific Research.

Rectangles dominate the ancient painting, which formed part of an adobe circular wall of a large mud brick house with a wooden roof. The site has been excavated since the early 1990s.
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Mr Coqueugniot said the painting, which was dated using radiocarbon methods, will be moved to Aleppo's museum next year. Its red came from burnt hematite rock, crushed limestone formed the white and charcoal provided the black.

"There was a purpose in having the painting in what looked like a communal house, but we don't know it. The village was later abandoned and the house stuffed with mud," he said.

A large number of flints and weapons have been found at the site as well as human skeletons buried under houses.

"This site is one of several Neolithic villages in modern day Syria and southern Turkey. They seem to have communicated with each other and had peaceful exchanges," said Mr Coqueugniot.

Mustafa Ali, a leading Syrian artist, said similar geometric design to that in the Djade al-Mughara painting found its way into art throughout the Levant and Persia, and can even be seen in carpets and kilims.

"We must not lose sight that the painting is archaeological, but in a way it's also modern," he said.

The dating makes the designs at least 1500 years older than wall paintings at Çatalhöyük, the famous 9500-year-old Turkish village, among one of the first towns. Cave art dates back much further but it was not until the so-called Neolithic Revolution that people began marking up human-made surfaces.

Scientists are fascinated by the birth of art because it marked a decisive point in our story, when man took a critical step beyond the limitations of his hairy ancestors and began to use symbols. The modern mind was born.

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MIT alleges flaws in Gehry building

BOSTON - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is suing renowned architect Frank Gehry, alleging serious design flaws in the Stata Center, a building celebrated for its unconventional walls and radical angles.

The school asserts that the center, completed in spring 2004, has persistent leaks, drainage problems and mold growing on its brick exterior. It says accumulations of snow and ice have fallen dangerously from window boxes and other areas of its roofs, blocking emergency exits and causing damage.

The suit says MIT paid Los Angeles-based Gehry Partners $15 million to design the Stata Center, which cost $300 million to build. It houses labs, offices, classrooms and meeting rooms.

"Gehry breached its duties by providing deficient design services and drawings," according to the suit, which also names New Jersey-based Beacon Skanska Construction Co., now known as Skanska USA Building Inc. The suit, filed Oct. 31, seeks unspecified damages.

Gehry Partners did not immediately respond to a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday, and did not respond to calls and e-mails Monday from The Boston Globe. A spokesman for MIT declined to comment because of the pending lawsuit.

An executive at Skanska's Boston office said Gehry ignored warnings from Skanska and a consulting company before construction that there were flaws in the design. "This is not a construction issue, never has been," said Paul Hewins, executive vice president and area general manager of Skanska USA.

the Stata Center

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‘If the roof doesn’t leak, the architect hasn’t been creative enough.”