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Hrvatske umetnine iz Beograda
18. decembar 2007. | 08:02 | Izvor: Tanjug

Beograd -- U Zagrebu se večeras otvara izložba sto vrhunskih dela hrvatskih umetnika od 1850-1959. iz zbirke Narodnog muzeja u Beogradu.

Mediji u Hrvatskoj su, pišući o izložbi, naveli veliko zanimanje stručne javnosti jer se radi o vrednim delima najvećih hrvatskih umetnika 19. i 20. veka, a neka od njih će prvi put biti prikazana u Hrvatskoj.

Autori projekta su istoričar umetnosti iz Zagreba Zvonko Maković i Ljubica Miljković iz beogradskog Narodnog muzeja, koja je i glavna inicijatorka događaja.

U realizaciji izložbe Narodni muzej iz Beograda pružio je stručnu, tehničku i finansijsku pomoć. Kako je Narodni muzej zatvoren zbog restauratorskih radova, deo njegovog fundusa ponuđen je Zagrebu pre tri godine, što je i prihvaćeno.

Pošto je Beograd bio metropola Srbije, a potom i bivše zajedničke države Jugoslavije, Narodni muzej otkupljivao je dela umetnika iz svih bivših republika, a deo je dobijao donacijama, tako da u fundusu jugoslovenskog slikarstva ima 2.700 umetnina, od toga 900 iz Hrvatske.

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Sto hrvatskih umjetnina iz Beograda

Piše: Patricia Kiš

Među sto djela hrvatskih umjetnika iz zbirki Narodnog muzeja u Beogradu, koja će se od večeras moći pogledati u Umjetničkom paviljonu, nalaze se i radovi Mihe Marinkovića.

Tog autora s početka 20. stoljeća čija se djela priklanjaju simbolizmu nema u likovnoj encikopediji niti se o njemu puno zna. Marinković je, dakle, otvoreno poglavlje hrvatske povijesti umjetnosti, a izložba, među ostalim, naznaka za daljnju potragu za opusom ovog autora.

Politika otkupa beogradskog Narodnog muzeja, naime, koja seže još od polovice pretprošlog stoljeća pa kontinuirano traje do danas, rezultirala je velikom zbirkom kako srpske, tako i međunarodne umjetnosti, s naglaskom na umjetnost regije. U brojkama to izgleda ovako: od 2700 umjetnina koliko se čuva u Muzeju, oko 900 ih je hrvatskih autora.

Kako se ovaj beogradski muzej danas temeljito renovira, to je bila prilika da se djela pokažu izvan Beograda. Na ideju da se ova djela pokažu u Zagrebu došla je Ljubica Miljković koja vodi zbirku Jugoslavenskog slikarstva, a iz Zagreba je kustos Zvonko Maković. Kronološki je prvo djelo na izložbi “Čovjek s kistom u ruci” Vjekoslava Karasa iz 1850. godine.

Poklon je privatnog sponzora, domoljuba Koste Petrovića iz Graza. U povijesti je ovaj muzej (osnovan kao Muzeum Serbski) više puta mijenjao naziv, a danas se smatra središnjim muzejem Srbije.

Osnivanje je još 1821. predložio knez Miloš Obrenović, što se dogodilo 23 godine poslije. Osnivač je pjesnik Jovan Sterija Popović. Kroz povijest je, dakle, bilo državnim otkupima, bilo privatnim donacijama osviještenih pojedinaca, skupljen impozantan broj umjetnina. Na zagrebačkoj su izložbi pokazani radovi 43 umjetnika.

Na izložbi su čak četiri djela Josipa Račića (sva su četiri portreti), a riječ je o najtraženijem autoru hrvatske moderne budući da je taj sjajni umjetnik umro mlad pa njegovih djela nema puno. Tri su rada Miroslava Kraljevića - Eva, Figura u predjelu, Violinist. Nadalje, Portret Tina Ujevića Ignjata Joba, Radnica Marijana Trepšea, Slikar Milivoja Uzelca...

Naglasak je na djelima nastalim između 1904. i 1922. godine. Jedan rad probija granicu određenu naslovom izložbe “Sto vruhnskih djela hrvatskih umjetnika iz zbirki Narodnog muzeja u Beogradu 1850.-1950”. Riječ je o Meandru Julija Knifera iz 1969. godine.

Podsjetimo da se u Beogradu nalaze i brojni hrvatski radovi nastali nakon 1950. godine, što je pokazao novi postav beogradskog Muzeja savremene umetnosti “Jugoslavenski umjetnički prostor 1900.-1991.” Jerka Denegrija iz 2002. godine.

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German experts crack Mona Lisa smile

BERLIN (Reuters) - German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.

Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting.

But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover, his mother or the artist himself.

Now experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world.

"All doubts about the identity of the Mona Lisa have been eliminated by a discovery by Dr. Armin Schlechter," a manuscript expert, the library said in a statement on Monday.

Until then, only "scant evidence" from sixteenth-century documents had been available. "This left lots of room for interpretation and there were many different identities put forward," the library said.

The notes were made by a Florentine city official Agostino Vespucci, an acquaintance of the artist, in a collection of letters by the Roman orator Cicero.

The comments compare Leonardo to the ancient Greek artist Apelles and say he was working on three paintings at the time, one of them a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo.

Art experts, who have already dated the painting to this time, say the Heidelberg discovery is a breakthrough and the earliest mention linking the merchant's wife to the portrait.

"There is no reason for any lingering doubts that this is another woman," Leipzig University art historian Frank Zoellner told German radio. "One could even say that books written about all this in the past few years were unnecessary, had we known."

The woman was first linked to the painting in around 1550 by Italian official Giorgio Vasari, the library said, but added there had been doubts about Vasari's reliability and had made the comments five decades after the portrait had been painted.

The Heidelberg notes were actually discovered over two years ago in the library by Schlechter, a spokeswoman said.

Although the findings had been printed in the library's public catalogue they had not been widely publicized and had been received little attention until a German broadcaster decided to do some recording at the library, she said.

The painting, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris, is also known as "La Gioconda" meaning the happy or joyful woman in Italian, a title which also suggests the woman's married name.

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Experts examine "Van Gogh" sketchbook in Greece

Greek writer Doreta Peppa holds copies of a sketchbook which she said belonged to Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in Athens January 15, 2008. Peppa said she had discovered the small brown sketchbook, with more than 60 pages of sketches and drawings, in boxes left by her father in storage and now she is in talks with the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam to authenticate the work. Picture taken January 15. (REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis)

ATHENS (Reuters) - A sketchbook believed to have been Vincent van Gogh's containing portraits similar to those in his most famous works has been found in Greece, its owner said on Wednesday.

Taken by a Greek resistance fighter from a Nazi train, the sketchbook was discovered in storage boxes by his daughter, who is seeking to establish its authenticity with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

One art expert commissioned by Greek writer Doreta Peppa concluded the sketches were by the 19th century Dutch post-Impressionist artist. Foreign experts would soon examine the work to rule on its authenticity, she said.

"Who would not be moved by such a discovery? This is van Gogh's soul," Peppa told Reuters. "He intended this sketchbook as a gift and there is no other like it in the world."

The booklet includes sketches of faces and characters, some similar to those incorporated in van Gogh paintings and drawings including 'The Potato Eaters', 'Sorrow' and 'Pere Tanguy'.

Peppa said she had discovered the small brown sketchbook, with more than 60 pages of sketches and drawings, in boxes left in storage by her late father. If genuine, it could be worth close to four million euros, she said.

A photograph of what Peppa says is the artist himself was also found.

"The notebook ... is a great gift to the whole world of arts," said Greek artist and art expert Athanasio Celia, who was asked by Peppa to examine the sketchbook.

"It is also an exclusive testimony that drawing was, as he believed, the backbone of painting," Celia said in his report, which concludes the sketches are authentic.

The booklet bears the stamp of the Brussels Royal Academy of Art where van Gogh moved to in 1880, as well as a Nazi stamp.

"This sketchbook was my father's who was a Greek resistance fighter in World War Two," Peppa said holding up scanned pages of the booklet which she keeps in a bank deposit box.

"According to his writings, he took it during an attack on a Nazi train retreating from Greece at the end of the German occupation," she said.

"I am open for any serious scientist to examine the sketchbook," Peppa added.

With a roughly estimated price tag of close to 4 million euros, the sketchbook, could fetch more at an auction, if genuine, but Peppa said she had no immediate plans to sell it.

"I don't want it to leave my hands," she said. "I don't see it as a way to get rich."

By Karolos Grohmann
January 16, 2008

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Russia art show opens to public

Matisse's The Dance is the centrepiece of the show

Inside the exhibition
An exhibition of treasured artworks from Russia which nearly failed to make it to the UK has opened in London.

The show, which is at the Royal Academy of Arts until 18 April, was threatened after the Russians were concerned some of the works could be seized.

The collection contains some works taken from private owners after the 1917 Russian Revolution.

A law giving immunity from seizure to cultural artefacts lent from abroad was pushed through by the government.

The Russian authorities gave the loan of the paintings their final approval earlier this month after "maximum possible assurances" were given by the UK that they would not be threatened with legal claims from the original owners' descendants.

Some of the collection, which features work by Renoir, Cezanne, Picasso and Van Gogh, has never been seen in the UK.

One of the highlights is Matisse's The Dance, which was painted during a period when the artist's work was misunderstood.

It is hoped the exhibition will attract some 500,000 visitors.

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5420 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Ovo su dela koja su skupljali Sergej Šćukin i Ivan Morozov, kupovali su Pikasa, Matisa, Gogena i sl. francuske slikare maltene na kilo, i negde tokom druge decenije XX veka, oni su bili mnogo cenjeniji u Moskvi, nego u Parizu...

Shteta shto vishe nismo oliko dobri s Rusima, pa da nam bace kosku i daju makar jedan delich ove postavke da kod nas imamo izlozhbu...

A Matisova slika koju je Mavro okachio uz vest je jedna od najznachajnijih i najchuvenijih, razlog zashto Matisa svrstavamo medju velikane slikarstva XX veka...

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Frugal librarian amassed $8 million art trove

The paintings were found in Jean Preston's home in Oxford

By Luke Baker

LONDON (Reuters) - From the outside it's an ordinary, red-brick house in a terraced row, not unlike tens of thousands of others scattered across Britain.

But on the inside, Jean Preston's spartan Oxford home contained works of art of international significance, carefully acquired over a lifetime and haphazardly displayed.

Preston, a thrifty 77-year-old spinster who rode the bus and ate frozen meals, died in 2006. But art experts and auctioneers have now completed the sale of the exceptional works hoarded in her modest home.

The auctions have raised an estimated 4 million pounds ($7.95 million), according to valuers, about 20 times the price of the house they were kept in, stunning experts and Preston's relatives alike.

Among the treasures were two paintings by Fra Angelico, the 15th century Italian Renaissance master, that were the missing pieces of an eight-part altar decoration.

They were sold together for $3.4 million and are expected to be returned to the Uffizi Gallery, Florence's famed art museum.

"We knew we were going to a house that contained some important works," Guy Schwinge of Dukes art auctioneers in Dorchester, which helped with the sale, told Reuters.

"But I was amazed to see quite how many treasures there were ... The Fra Angelicos were behind the bedroom door and we only spotted them on the way out."

Hanging in the kitchen was a 19th century watercolor by pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and in the sitting room, above an electric fire, a work by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

Pre-Raphaelite paintings, including one by Rossetti [above] were found

Those two, estimated to be worth $2 million, have been saved for Britain and are expected to go on display at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, Schwinge said.

Another hidden treasure was a rare edition of the works of Chaucer that was too big to fit on Preston's bookshelf and was found buried in a wardrobe. It sold for nearly $150,000.

"We often go to fabulous homes to evaluate artworks, but in this case the house was just so modest from the outside, and had very modest decor on the inside too," said Schwinge.

"It's just rare to stumble across something quite so breathtaking."

Preston, who worked as a librarian for much of her life, inherited many of the works from her father, a keen collector. Her relatives were stunned by the artworks she had tucked away.

"My aunt bought her clothes from a catalog, ate frozen meals and went everywhere on the bus," the Daily Mail newspaper quoted one of them as saying.

"Who would have thought she had the equivalent of a winning lottery ticket in her spare room all these years?"

(Editing by Paul Casciato)

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31. januar 2008. | Tanjug

Korbizijevo delo za svetsku baštinu

Francuska ministarka za kulturu Kristin Albanel potpisala je, u ime Francuske, zajedno sa pet drugih zemalja, kandidaturu Korbizijevog dela za unošenje na listu svetske baštine Uneska u idućoj godini.

Potpisivanje je obavljeno u Parizu, u prisustvu ambasadora pri Unesku iz Nemačke, Argentine, Belgije, Japana i Švajcarske, u kojima se, sa delima u Francuskoj, nalaze 22 Korbizijeova kandidovana ostvarenja.

Projekat koji su 2002. godine pokrenule Fondacija "Korbizije" u Parizu i francusko ministarstvo kulture, delo velikog neimara definiše kao delo "univerzalnog karaktera na istorijskom planu i fundamentalni doprinos modernoj arhitekturi i urbanizmu 20. veka".

Njegova ostvarenja su, kako je navedeno, priznata kao izuzetna dela koja čine ključne momente u istoriji arhitekture.

Šarl Eduar Žanere Gri, rođen u mestu La Šo de Fon u Švajcarskoj 6. oktobra 1887. godine, poznat pod pseudonimom Le Korbizije (1887-1965), zauzima istaknuto mesto u modernoj umetnosti kao arhitekta, slikar i pisac koji je presudno uticao na savremenu svetsku arhitekturu.

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Lepo, lepo... zasluzio je Gavra, svaka im cast.

jimson_crimson · Pristupio: 18 Apr 2006 Poruke: 1758 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Jes' da ima i drugih, hitnijih stvari koje bi trebalo da se nadju na Unescovoj listi svetske bastine, ali Le Korbizjeova dela definitvno zasluzuju da se nadju tamo...