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Ik wens je een goede vrijdag!

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April 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Show your true color, especially on gray days (and dance a little).
Have a good one today.

#goodmorning #bluesky #grayday #fotografie #photography #Nederland #netherlands #Denemarken #Danmark #arkenmuseum #arken #kopenhagen
April 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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#FotoVorschlag 'Recycling: Wenn aus Abfall Neues entsteht' #FotoVorschlag

The Garbage Man

https://www.arken.dk/udstillinger/the-garbage-man

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Eine riesige Menschenfigur sitzt müde wirkend auf dem Fußboden. Sie ist aus vielen Müll-Teilen zusammengefügt, wie etwa Holz, Textilien, Papier und Plastik. Holz-Trolle kümmern sich um sie.
August 4, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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On the way from Kœge to the Arken Museum of Modern Danish Art.
The sea shows itself in its most beautiful colours.
#sailing #marinelife #Arkenmuseum #fotografie #shiningsea #Zero
way from Kœge to the Arken Museum of Modern Danish Art. The sea shows itself in its most beautiful colours.
August 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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“Sur la route d’Anacapri” (On the Way to Anacapri) by Gerda Wegener (Danish) - Oil on canvas / 1922 - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst (Ishøj, Denmark) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #GerdaWegener #Wegener #artText #BlueskyArt #DanishArt #arte #ArtDeco #QueerArt #ARKEN #ArkenMuseum
Two women stand together on a path overlooking a moonlit bay, rendered in a soft palette of reds, blues, and silvery green-gray. Both figures are shown in elegant profile poses, but one woman turns her face toward us with a steady, eye-catching gaze. Her arm wraps around the other woman’s shoulders in a protective, intimate gesture. The other woman looks outward toward the landscape, dreamy and absorbed, holding an apple in one hand. Their dresses, makeup, jewelry, and matching rings are carefully detailed, and the scene feels stylized. It’s poised, theatrical, and tender at once. Behind them, mountains, water, and buildings recede into a luminous atmosphere that gives the image an almost unreal calm. This painting is regarded as one of Danish artist Gerda Wegener’s most moving images of closeness between Gerda and Lili Elbe who married in 1904 when Lili was still publicly known as Einar Wegener. Its emotional power comes from how it balances intimacy with formality. The paired profiles echo Renaissance portrait conventions, while the saturated color, fashion-conscious elegance, and polished surface place the work firmly in Wegener’s modern, Art Deco world. The apple can suggest desire, beauty, choice, or a deliberately staged symbol within a private bond. The work carries a timeless, “elevated” quality that’s less a travel snapshot than an image of shared love, aesthetic devotion, and memory. The moonlit Capri setting matters: Italy appears here as both real place and emotional landscape. Painted in 1922, the work belongs to the period when Gerda and Lili were living within cosmopolitan Parisian artistic circles and shaping the imagery that would make Wegener one of the most distinctive women artists of her era. Wegener was celebrated in Paris for her refined line, glamour, and portraits of women, even as her work could provoke controversy in Denmark. Her paintings of Lili and other women expanded the visual language of femininity, performance, and identity.
February 21, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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'Im Museum' #FotoVorschlag

Du bist nicht du, wenn du hungrig bist... 😆

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Ein aus recycletem Holz gebauter Thomas-Dambo-Troll, der bedrohlich auf dich zugeht. Er hat eine alte Mülltonne auf dem Kopf in die man zwei Löcher für die Augen des Trolls geschnitten hat.
September 16, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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“Deux cocottes avec des chapeaux (Two Cocottes with Hats)” by Gerda Wegener (Danish) - Oil on canvas / c. 1925 - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst (Ishøj, Denmark) #WomenInArt #GerdaWegener #Wegener #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #ARKEN #ARKENMuseum #art #artText #arte #GerdaGottlieb #1920sArt
Two stylish figures fill the frame so closely that their bodies and hats almost become the whole world of the painting. At left, one woman turns toward us with a poised gaze. Her pale blond hair is topped with a lavish hat trimmed in flowers and feathers, and her makeup, jewelry, and soft blush tones heighten the air of performance and glamour. At right, the second figure leans in, her face angled toward her companion, creating a private exchange inside a public display. Their shoulders nearly touch. One hand presents a rose at the center of the composition, while ribbons, fabric, feathers, and curls echo across the surface in creamy pinks, black, ivory, and warm red. Skin appears luminous and powdered, the features idealized but emotionally charged. The cropped composition makes the pair feel intimate, elegant, and slightly theatrical all at once. Danish artist Gerda Wegener built her career around images of modern femininity, and by the mid-1920s in Paris she was painting women with a sophistication shaped by fashion, nightlife, and changing gender roles. This work depicts the artist with Lili Elbe (Gerda’s spouse and frequent model). Born Einar Wegener before transitioning, Lili Elbe was also a Danish artist. Gerda’s portraits of Lili became some of the most memorable images of femininity, performance, and self-invention in early 20th-century art. The painting’s title uses cocottes (a French term that can suggest fashionable, flirtatious, or even courtesans) so the picture plays knowingly with glamour, performance, and desire. The rose at center is likely both invitation and symbol, while the compressed space turns adornment into emotional language. Rather than simply depicting two chic women in hats, Gerda offers a vision of femininity as artifice, intimacy, and self-fashioning that is exquisitely composed, slightly mischievous, and definitely radical for its time.
April 18, 2026 at 3:54 PM