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Magritte Museum
The Magritte Museum (french: Musée Magritte, nl, Magritte Museum) is an art museum in central Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the work of the Belgian surrealist artist, René Magritte. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. It is served by Brussels Central Station, as well as by the metro stations Parc/Park (on lines 1 and 5) and Trône/Troon (on lines 2 and 6). Museum The Magritte Museum opened to the public on 30 May 2009 in Brussels. Housed in the five-level neoclassical Hôtel du Lotto, on the Place Royale/Koningsplein, it displays some 200 original Magritte paintings, drawings and sculptures including ''The Return'', ''Scheherazade'' and ''The Empire of Light ''The Empire of Light'' (French: ''L'Empire des lumières'') is the title of a succession of paintings by René Magritte.Kantrowitz, Jonathan (25 November 2017), René Magritte: The Fifth Season'. Art History News. (accessed 19 December 2020) T ...''.Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place Royale, Brussels
The Place Royale (, 'Royal Square') or Koningsplein (Dutch, 'King's Square') is a historic neoclassical square in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. Modelled after the so-called French ''royal square'' and built between 1775 and 1782, according to a plan of the architects Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré and Gilles-Barnabé Guimard, to replace the former Palace of Coudenberg, it was part of an urban project including Brussels Park. The Place Royale is one of oldest architecturally consistent and monumental public squares, as well as an excellent example of 18th-century urban architecture. Rectangular and symmetrical in shape, it measures , and is entirely paved. In its centre stands an equestrian statue of Godfrey of Bouillon. It is also flanked by the Church of St. James on Coudenberg, as well as some of the main museums in the city. The / enters the square from the south, the / from the south-west, and the / and the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg from the north-west. This area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art. Early life René Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut (province), Hainaut, Belgium, in 1898. He was the oldest son of Léopold Magritte, a tailor and textile merchant,Meuris 1991, p 216. and Régina (née Bertinchamps), who was a Hatmaking, milliner before she got married. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 24 February 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the Sambre, River Sambre at Châtelet, Belgium, Châtelet. It was not her first suicide attempt. Her body was not discovered until 12 March.Abadie 2003, p. 274. According to a legend, 13-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Museums Established In 2009
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts. The nature of art and related concepts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Establishments In Belgium
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Museums And Galleries In Belgium
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts. The nature of art and related concepts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In Brussels
This is a list of museums in Brussels, Belgium. It includes museums situated in any of the municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region. Former museums * Underwear Museum - Moved to Lessines, Hainaut in 2016 * Scientastic Museum - Closed in 2012 * Charles Debuer Fencing Museum - Closed * NAM-IP Computer Museum - Collection moved to Namur, Wallonia in 2015 * Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Brussels - Closed References External links *{{commonscatinline, Museums in BrusselsOfficial site of the Brussels council of museums Brussels Museums in Brussels Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ... Museums in Brussels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Belgium
Belgian culture involves both the aspects shared by all Belgians regardless of the language they speak and the differences between the main cultural communities: the Dutch-speaking Belgians (Flemish) and the French-speaking Belgians (mostly Brussels and Walloon people). Most Belgians view their culture as an integral part of European culture. The territory corresponding to present-day Belgium having always been located at the meeting point of Germanic and Latin Europe, it benefited from a rich cross-fertilization of cultures for centuries. Due to its strategic position in the heart of Europe, Belgium has been at the origin of many European artistic and cultural movements. Famous elements of the Belgian culture include gastronomy (Belgian beers, fries, chocolate, waffles, etc.), the comic strip tradition (Tintin, the Smurfs, Spirou & Fantasio, the Marsupilami, Lucky Luke, Largo Winch, etc.), painting and architecture (the Art Nouveau, the Mosan art, the Early Netherlandish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Single-artist Museums
This is a list of single-artist museums, which are museums displaying the work of, or bearing the name of, a single visual artist. * Basuki Abdullah – Basoeki Abdullah Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia * Affandi – Affandi Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia * Yaacov Agam – Yaacov Agam Museum of Art, Rishon LeZion, Israel * Ivan Aivazovsky - Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia, Crimea * Josef and Anni Albers – Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut * Theodor Aman - Theodor Aman Museum, Bucharest, Romania * Walter Anderson – Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, Mississippi * Edward Bailey – Bailey House Museum, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii * Ernst Barlach - Ernst Barlach House, Hamburg, Germany * Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, France, and the Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island, New York City * Benini - Museo Benini, Marble Falls, Texas * Rosa Bonheur - Musée de l'atelier Rosa Bonheur, Thomery, France * Fern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BELvue Museum
The BELvue Museum (french: Musée BELvue, nl, BELvue Museum) is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, that focuses on the history of Belgium. It is managed by the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF). The museum is located in the Hôtel Bellevue, an 18th-century neoclassical '' hôtel'' (townhouse) between the / and the Place Royale/Koningsplein, next to the Royal Palace of Brussels. This site is served by Brussels Central Station, as well as by the metro stations Parc/Park (on lines 1 and 5) and Trône/Troon (on lines 2 and 6). History In 1977, the Hôtel Bellevue was converted into a museum building, housing a collection from the nearby Royal Museums of Art and History. After 1992, two small museums opened in the building relating to the history of the Belgian monarchy: the Dynasty Museum (french: Musée de la Dynastie, link=no, nl, Museum van de Dynastie, link=no) and the King Baudouin Memorial (french: Mémorial Roi Baudouin, link=no, nl, Memorial Koning Boudewijn, li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irène Hamoir
Irène Hamoir (25 July 1906 – 17 May 1994) was a Belgian novelist and poet, the leading female member of the Belgian surrealist movement. Her poetry was published under the pen name Irine, and she appeared as Lorrie in the writings of her husband, Louis Scutenaire, and the works of René Magritte. Biography Born in Saint-Gilles, Belgium into a family with ties to the circus, she worked as a secretary. As an adolescent, Hamoir was already militant in the Young Socialist Guards. Then in 1928, she met the Brussels surrealists (she would later portray then in rough outline as hooligans in her novel ''Boulevard Jacqmain'' 953 reprinted in 1996 by the Éditions Devillez). She wrote her first poem, ''Métallique'' in 1925. At that time she first became involved with the burgeoning Belgian surrealist group forming around artists such as Magritte, Marc. Eemans, Scutenaire, Marcel Mariën, and Paul Nougé. She married Louis Scutenaire in 1930. Her poems and tales, highly fantastical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgette Berger
Georgette is a feminine given name, the French form of (''Geōrgia''), the feminine form of George. Georgette may refer to: People * Georgette Barry (1919–2003), stage name Andrea King, American actress * Georgette Bauerdorf (1924–1944), American socialite, heiress and murder victim * Georgette Berube (1927–2005), American politician * Georgette Chen (1906–1993), Singaporean painter * Georgette Harvey (1882–1952), African-American singer and actress * Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), English novelist * Georgette Klinger (1915–2004), Czech-born American businesswoman and cosmetologist * Georgette Leblanc (1869–1941, French operatic soprano, actress and author * Georgette Meyer (1919–1965), also known as Dickey Chapelle, American photojournalist * Georgette Mosbacher (born 1947), American business entrepreneur, executive, political activist and United States Ambassador to Poland * Georgette Seabrooke (1916–2011), American muralist, illustrator, art therapist, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Empire Of Light
''The Empire of Light'' (French: ''L'Empire des lumières'') is the title of a succession of paintings by René Magritte.Kantrowitz, Jonathan (25 November 2017), René Magritte: The Fifth Season'. Art History News. (accessed 19 December 2020) They depict the paradoxical image of a nocturnal landscape beneath a sunlit sky. He explored the theme in 27 paintings (17 oil paintings and 10 gouaches) from the 1940s to the 1960s.Peyser, Marijke. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: A dream collection - Surrealism in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen' (accessed 19 December 2020)Zivkovic, Alex (2018), "'It's Like Being in the Picture': The Dominion of Light at SFMOMA"'. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (accessed 19 December 2020) The paintings were not planned as a formal series. They have never all been exhibited together and are rarely exhibited in smaller groups. The original French title, ''L'Empire des Lumieres'' is sometimes translated as singular, ''The Empire of Light'',Noël, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
