Art and Freedom

Hi Everybody!

Today I am sharing a little  (A4) quilt I made using photos of my Mum
and me transferred using Lazertran decals and liquid polymer. This
doesn't render the photos as transparent as using turpentine,
but also gives a very good result with less odour. After fixing the
pictures onto some recycled floral material I sewed it onto canvas.
I added some 'party hats' made of lace. I am planing on making
more with other family photos.

And I have another tag for Michele's theme 'back to school' at

Tag Tuesday:

And this tag is meant for Go Tag Thursday, clocks:

I have some more photos from my visit with my cousins

last week:

Loved these stairs at the Main Station:

There's always lots going on there:

We then headed to the K20 (Art of the 20th century)  museum to 

see the normal collection,which is superb, and the special

exhibition:

Rupture, War and Surrealism 

in Egypt (1938 – 1948)

This is the official introductory text issued by the museum:

This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition about the largely forgotten Cairo based group Art et Liberté ("art and liberty", "jama’at al-fann wa al-hurriyyah"). The exhibition presents more than 200 works from around 50 collections in 12 different countries, including paintings, works on paper, prints, photographs, films, books, and archival documents. At the dawn of World War II and during Egypt's colonial rule by the British Empire the surrealist collective of artists and writers was engaged in its defiance of Fascism, Nationalism and Colonialism.

Through their works, artists such as Hassan El-Telmisani, Inji Efflatoun, Fouad Kamel, Amy Nimr, Samir Rafi, and Ramses Younane amongst others, gave voice to the group's political, aesthetic and social commitment. The collective's main driving force was the Cairo-based poet and literary critic Georges Henein, the son of a diplomat and a cosmopolitan personality who had been closely associated with the Parisian Surrealists grouped around  André Breton from as early as 1933. Surrealism, with its often provocative, always poetic, subversive, anarchic, and intimate amalgamation of poetry and painting, resonated very strongly in Cairo where it stood firmly in its fight against political repression and for the ideal of human freedom.

This exhibition features a direct link to the  Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: the Cairo-based artists' collective explicitly declared solidarity with many of the classical modernist artists who were persecuted by Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. Some of these artists are represented today in the permanent collection. Alluding to the defamatory and propagandistic National Socialist exhibition devoted to "Entartete Kunst," the Art et Liberté group headed its founding manifesto of December 1938 with the words "Long Live Degenerate Art!" and demanded: "Together, Let us overcome the Middle Ages that emerges from the heart of the Occident."

Here a selection of the photos and paintings. There were also newsreel 

films being shown:

This was my fave piece:

My cousins loved the exhibition rooms of modern art, too, here they are 

standing in front of a wonderful Bonnard painting:

Everyone gets a bracelet to make him an official visitor:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!