Exhibition “La Fabrique des Images” – The Souls of Animals – Ivory Miniature Inuit Sculptures

Exhibition “la fabrique des images” Museum Quai Branly, Paris

It’s interesting to watch how things turn out when you draw something from memory: yesterday’s Katsina-dolls (left) where drawn from memory, in the metro – I tried to reproduce images of what I had seen that day in the museum. HEREUNDER are the drawings I made standing in front of the REAL dolls, exhibited behind [...]

Exhibition Notebook: Hopi Katsina Dolls

This drawing on an ARCHE postcard is inspired by Hopi Katsina dolls. The Katsinam are approx. 20 to 30 cm high, if I remember well,  and they are’nt toys. They were used by the HOPI tribe  to teach children certain rituals and the meaning of them. I drew these during my visit at the Musée [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Musée d’Orsay – Picasso et Manet

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

©estandrea 2009 – click to enlarge Watercolor on Arche Paper, 26x36cm – 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 them [...]