Floral Passions

14 maaliskuuta 2019

Goshawk Visiting

Goshawks have been visiting my garden a few times before.

The last time a year ago. And there he/she is again sitting on my pergola!

The photos are not so good, it is a grey snowy day and are taken through glass

at a long distance. While I’m writing this, the hawk sits and observes the surroundings.

HERE my post from last year.

12 maaliskuuta 2019

11 maaliskuuta 2019

There are tens of museums in the Helsinki region and we have this fantastic invention for 4th year now - Museum Card - that opens entrance to 280 museums all around the country. It is valid the whole year and costs 69 €. After visiting approximately four exhibitions, the following are ’free’. My husband gave me Museum Card as a Women’s Day present and I’ll tell you about two art exhibitions that I intend to visit next week. The photos and info come from the sites of these two museums - Ateneum and Amos Rex. I’ll post later on my impressions of the exhibitions.

René Magritte / Amos Rex

The museum shows works of the Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) for the first time in Finland. Magritte, who is considered a leading figure in Surrealism, is particularly known for his works that turn everyday reality upside down; an apple fills a whole room and a nose becomes a pipe. The familiar is suddenly bafflingly strange.

Amos Rex / Wikimedia Commons / Sino Yu

František Kupka / Ateneum

The Czech artist František Kupka (1871–1957) is known as a pioneer of abstract art. The retrospective of the painter, who enjoyed a long career in Paris, will enable viewers to explore the history of Western art: the step-by-step transition from traditional portraiture towards abstract expression. In his powerful and almost psychedelic works, Kupka applied Newton’s colour theory, as well as music theory: you can sense rhythm and movement in his paintings. Three of the exhibition galleries will show Kupka’s works with jazz and classical music playing in the background.