My May in Collages

May was a wonderful month of awakening spring. Colourwise it was fresh green,

pale pink, white and blue. My month was active, with many posts, so I made three collages.

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 I visited the fabulous František Kupka exhibition at Ateneum Helsinki.

I wrote many posts about my spring garden... 

One was Fabulous green and another Vanishing beauty.

I posted about the ingenious double helix staircase of the central library Oodi,

visited the Helsinki Wintergarden,
saw a graffiti exposition Brats of the Concrete Jungle at Viherpaja Vantaa 

and my correspondent in Dublin sent me a few great photos.

May was a good month with many experiences! Welcome real summer & June.
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Monthly collages - Kuukausikollaasit

František Kupka at Ateneum

I wrote in March that in Helsinki at the Ateneum, part of the Finnish National Gallery there is a great retrospective exhibition of the Czech painter František Kupka (1871-1957). I visited the exhibition and found it absolutely fantastic! During his long career Kupka had so many different styles. I took plenty of photos, more can be found online of course. Before coming to the Ateneum, the exhibition was on display at the Grand Palais in Paris and the National Gallery in Prague.

Ateneum is a beautiful building from 1877 the style being neo-renessaince. 

On the facade there are reliefs, now covered by the Kupka poster. 

The staircase is beautiful with decorative iron railing.

There were big wall-high black and white photos of Kupka and his past exhibitions.

It was a wonderful art experience. If you have the possibility to see Kupka’s work 

in some art museum or exhibition, I am sure you’ll be impressed too.
I bought myself a book about Kupka so I can study his works and life.

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