I braved a rainstorm yesterday to go and check out the Jeff Koons exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. I caught up with my friend Chris, who I haven't seen in a couple of years, and we had a pleasant day of art viewing. I wasn't massively impressed by the Koons work they had on displayed; I wasn't really disappointed, because I didn't expect an awful lot, and there were a couple of pieces that I enjoyed looking at, including an aluminium caterpillar that was painted to look like a blow up child's pool toy, and his giant multi-coloured cartoon animal mirrors.
We also had a look around at the permanent exhibitions there, and the August Sander: People of the 20th Century collection in the Dean Gallery really caught my eye. I'm sure I've seen it before, but I can't remember if it was elsewhere; it may have been in the Tate Modern:
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| August Sander - Self-portrait, 1936 |
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| Bricklayer, 1928 |
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| Pastry Chef, 1928 |
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| Young Girl in Circus Wagon, 1926 |
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| Secretary at West German Radio Station, Cologne, 1931 |
I really love that last photograph. The subject looks so androgynous, and is so evocative of Weimar Germany; her cool, nonchalant pose is fantastic. Strangely, it reminded me of this painting:
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| Otto Dix - Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, 1926 |
According to the
Weimar Art blog, the models are one and the same, so I'm pretty pleased with myself for having spotted it.
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