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Cornelis Troost, An Amsterdam Town Garden, c. 1745, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
A small girl in a white dress is standing in the only patch of bright sunlight. She is holding a bowl in the air. The man on the ladder has just picked a bunch of grapes. In the shadow of the house, a woman is sitting cleaning green cabbages. The parrot looks inquisitively at the cabbages floating in the bucket. This is an unusual scene : an Amsterdam garden in the peace of summer. This small, enclosed garden is an example of eighteenth-century town-garden design. An important detail in this picture is the small summerhouse. It is richly decorated with various statues. In front is a statue of a female nude.
The gilded statue of the woman on a blue plinth represents Dame Fortune, the goddess of prosperity. Cornelis Troost has used all kind of tricks to make the garden appear deeper , for instance, the slanting, long patch of light. The red of the parrot, the bright colours of the flowers, the shining gold of Fortune and the girl’s brilliant white dress enhance the suggestion of a bright, warm summer’s day.
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René Burri, Men on a Rooftop, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1960
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The Mystical Garden
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hausu (1977) dir. by nobuhiko obayashi
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Mary Sauer
Rome Kitchen II
oil on linen panel
30 x 30 cm
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“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”
— Mitch Albom
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Ryuichi Inaba, from JCA Annual 4 (1982)
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Yayoi Kusama Accumulated Eyes are Singing
© YAYOI KUSAMA
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Necromancer and their ghostly friends
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1859-1933
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alien
