Pictures of the exhibition “Women” – Exposition “FEMMES”

This is a piece of the Textile Art Series “Ancestormasks” which are part of an ongoing collective exhibition “FEMMES”, here in Paris. I just put up pictures of the exhibition, the artists and the vernissage (which took place last Wednesday) on our artists’ federation’s blog  SEIZIEM’ART
I have re-worked this piece here as I thought it [...]

Guarding Dragon for new website

NEWS: NEW WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING – ANDREA HUPKE DE PALACIO – painter, illustrator, textile artist – AM BUSY WITH LAST PREPARATIONS FOR TONIGHT’S OPENING OF OUR SHOW – WILL BE BACK WITH NEWS AS SOON AS I CAN – HAVE A GREAT WEDNESDAY – LOVE – ANDREA

DEADLINE – Exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Excerpt of the Museum’s Introduction to this exhibition:
“Deadline has chosen to examine a group of artists who died during the last twenty years and whose concluding works are marked by an awareness of imminent death, the urgency of the task in hand and an impulse to self-transcendence. Some of the works on show seem not [...]

Musée d’Orsay – Picasso et Manet

Le Musée Jacquemart-André: Who was Nélie Jacquemart André?

©estandrea 2009 – click to enlarge
Watercolor on Arche Paper, 26×36cm – 140 lb / 10 x 14 in

In my previous post I told you about my discovery of a painting of Anton Van Dyck in the Musée Jacquemart André here in Paris; Today I’d like to talk a little more about this beautiful place and [...]

HAS TIME CUT THE WINGS OF YOUR LOVE…?

Postcard www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com -Click on the image to enlarge it!
“Le temps coupe les ailes de l’Amour”
Anton VAN DYCK (1599-1641)
Musée Jacquemart-André – Paris
Did you ever stumble into an exhibition and got completely absorbed by one painting or object?
You see all the other paintings and/or object too but this one painting gets to you? First the title, [...]

Like a watergod out of water- Frick Collection New York City

Found this page in my notebook, a souvenir of a visit in a NYC museum. There was this little statue, (as an interpretation of a greek legend, but I forgot which:), a water-god with his lover), and this golden grandfather clock, with rich ornaments. I cut the sketches out of another notebook and scotch-taped [...]

With a little help from our friends….Picasso and Manet

This post could have the title: With a little help from our friends we can have a great day.
Or: How to have fun using paper and basic school-gouache box, diving into the color
….and into the Master paintings
 
Around 1960 Picasso painted numerous oil-paintings after the famous Edouard-Manet-Painting “le déjeuner sur l’herbe”.
 
Edouard Manet’s painting: (very [...]

Pictures of an exhibition: Inspiration: Jackson Pollock et le Chamanisme

Before visiting this exhibition, when I heard the name “Pollock”, I always had in mind the “drippings” (and Ed Harris interpreting Jackson Pollock:).
 
San Francisco Tribal Arts and Textile Magazine,
Quote:
The Pinacothèque de Paris is hosting a reexamination of the work of American painter Jackson Pollock, focusing on Pollock’s long-held fascination with Native American art and [...]

Exhibition Raoul Dufy

I have something for you, a special exhibition notebook. For your inspiration and mine, I cut out pictures of a brochure I got while visiting the exhibition, glued them in a notebook with white paper (rather thin but ok) in which I can play around the pictures with colour (gouache=more opaque watercolour, for kids in [...]