Weekly Favourites week 10

Apparently I just have a thing for dresses this week; girly, stylish, dramatic, summerish (if there's such a word) and beautiful. I espacially love the prints on the Stine Goya dresses and the yellow Marc by Marc Jacobs dress, and in my opinion it should be a musthave item in any wardrobe for summer as a LBD! What additions would you make to the 'musthave-all time-classics-never-can-go-wrong' list?

Dresses Week 10, 2011 by Maudline featuring alexander mcqueen dresses

Various faves, week 10, 2011 by Maudline on Polyvore.com

Amber par Excellence

A few nights ago, I stumpled on a TV show about architecture and the host visited the Catherine Palace in Russia, and from the first view I was completely dumbstruck! Definately on my 'must see in real life before I die' list. It was build in the 1700s but was bombed during WWII and is now restored to its original glory. I just can't stop looking at the detail.. Especially in the amber room. I have always loved amber, it was called the gold of the North, and I recall many summerdays at the beach trying to find a piece of amber. Never succeded so far, though. I'm also scanning every jewlery store to find a pair of earrings like those Nicole Kidman wears in The Hours as Virginia Woolf. Perfection in my humble opinion.

Anyways, I just wanted to share some pictures of this place with you guys.

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Museum Details

Here's some pictures of some of my favourite things at ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art. I like walking around the pretty paintings and sculptures, and I always start at the top with The Golden Age in Danish art and work my way down to the special exhibitions and The Nine Rooms. Later this year, there's going to open a special installation on top of the building created by Olafur Elliason called Your Rainbow Panorama and I'm very exited about it. From outside its very beautiful but I'll tell you about it in details when its done and I've visited.

For now, I'll just show you these..

Detail.

By Eckesberg, considered to be the founding father of The Danish Golden Age in painting.

Detail from a much larger painting of a Danish rural wedding in the 19th C. I love the bonnets..

The rural paintings were very popular in Denmark in the 19th C, however, they were all idealized versions of the happy but ignorant peasant. It was not until late 1880s and 1890s that socialist themes began to merge into these paintings.

Detail of a young girl's folk dress. In real life, this detail is about 15 cm and I'm always strusk by the amount of detail in her lace bonnet and shawl.

Painting by Anna Ancher, one of the Skagen Painters and Denmark's main figure in Impressionism. No one else in Denmark was that influenced by the movement.

Girl with blue Ribbon - by a French painter whose name I don't remember.

Painting by Wilhelm Hammershøi. The most famous of his paintings is localised in Randers Art Museum, north of Aarhus.

I like the clash between the very elaborate gilded phrame and the expressive style of the painting.

Maison d'Elephant by John Kørner (DK). He was one of the invited artists who decorated the royal apartments at Amalienborg Castle to the Crown Prince Couple together with Kathrine Ærtebjerg and others.

Detail of a much larger painting by Michael Kvium.

Painting by Eske Kath, also one of the artists from Amalienborg Castle.

So, there you go. A little visual history of art at Aarhus Museum of Art from around 1770 to present. I haven't included pictures from The Nine Rooms due to them being more installations or video montages and should be experinced live in order to give the best presentation.

ARoS  Frederik VIII's Palace (Amalienborg Castle)

Blooming fashion

A little more fashion this Friday. These are from a spread in a free magazine done by the department store, Magasin du Nord, in Denmark.

I really like the flowers accent with the styling. PhotographerJette Jørs, Stylist As Øland/Look Book and model Cathrine Nørgaard/Unique.

Weekly Favourites week 9

I have a thing for pretty girly dresses with a vintage feel to them. The shades are almost all in the nude - champagne - blush - apricot scheme this week. The same goes with the accessories and the seperates but with the jeans to dress the whole thing down a bit. They do seem like the perfect jeans to me. I may have to run them up and try them, even though it would go against my non-buying resolution this year (which I by the way have managed so far!!! Yay for me!!) And last but not least, go to my Polyvore account to get the info as where to buy the goodies.

Have a lovely weekend..

Dresses, Week 9 2011 by Maudline on Polyvore.com

Accessories & Seperates Week 9, 2011 by Maudline on Polyvore.com

Scandinavian Coat of Arms

I just found this website today and I find this utterly hilarious!! Its how Scandinavia and the rest of the world would interact if they were cartoon characters based on the simplest stereotypes and mocking of each other. This is great fun but if you are easily provoked about others making fun of you and your country - then don't go there, however, most is about how the Scandinavians tease and provoke each other but with a wink! ;)

Here's an example... Please click for full view, its so worth it!

Want more??? Go here..



A Ghost Who Walks

I have always loved sculptures for their grace and the much clearer sense of craftmanship than I do with paintings and other art forms. Don't know why really, but there you go. It the same thing with architecture, even if I don't really feel anything for the overall design I get flushed with wonder if I start to think of the workmanship and the actual building the houses etcetera.

On Aros Aarhus Museum of Art, Danish-German sculptur Christian Lemmerz showed a marvelous and very dark exhibition of works playing on the traditional notions of what sculptures should and could do as representative and decoration and working as well as contemporary comments to the world around us. The show was titled 'Ghost' and it was set in an all black setting with spotlights on the scultures. The sculptures were either in Italian marble, plastic or some sort of papmache (as far as I could tell - this may not be true though, I rarely read the labels for anything else but the titles.) Very gloomy and provoking if all you have been introduced to before is like the long stately galleries with busts and decorative sculptures like at the Versailles. This was nothing like that!

 Detail of 'Abu Ghraib'

 'Abu Ghraib'

 detail of the sculpture pair above

 The slightly coloured stuff you can see inside the plast sculpture look anatomically like lungs and were attached to some sort of respirator and therefore the sculpture was breathing. Very scarry actually, to see 'life' in a dead thing beacuse we tend to distinguish so sharply between breathing equals living and the reverse. I also had connotations to a hospital ward with patients hooked up on these machines and only 'living' because of them. I still can't decide whether I like that or not.

 A huge drawing called 'Dante's Dream'. A comment or illustration of how Lemmerz pictures (literally) Hell in Dante's work.

To give a sense of the scale of the drawing, and the 'entrance' zone to the dark covered rooms where most of his marble sculptures were displayed.

Overall, I found it a very beautiful yet haunting show, and some of the works, especially 'Abu Ghraib' was very hard on me emotionally. I would actually have loved to look more closely at it but I could literally feel my eyes tearing up! Thank god for the darkness, I say! However, Christian Lemmerz will definately be an artist who I will keep an eye on - if only for the amazing techniques and craftmanship he demonstrated here.

Aros on 'Ghost' in English