PEX through Paintings #10 – “Good Hope Road II”
PEX 2020 was an exciting event, a promising first step. Therefore, the painting selected to conclude reflections on those days [...]
PEX through Paintings #9 – “Still Life with Cat and Rayfish”
Following on from yesterday’s focus on abundance, today’s image for a reflection on PEX is Chardin’s “Still Life with Cat [...]
PEX through Paintings #8 – “The abundance of summer”
Today’s painting to frame reflections from PEX 2020 is Lacroix’s “The abundance of summer”. The reason for that is simple: [...]
PEX through Paintings #7 – “Signal of Distress”
Alongside yesterday’s diversity theme, PEX 2020 also saw explicit debates about foundations and the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals [...]
PEX through Paintings #6 – “The White Man”
Today’s painting, Feininger’s “The White Man”, sparked the initial idea to use paintings to frame reflections on PEX 2020. First [...]
PEX through Paintings #5 – “Time and Again”
There is no doubt that PEX 2020 was pioneering. At the same time, though, there was also a sense of [...]
PEX through Paintings #4 – “The Virgin of Humility with Angels and a Donor”
An interesting feature when walking through the Thyssen-Bornemisza is the number of paintings stating XYZ “with a donor”. Examples include, [...]
PEX through paintings #3 – “My Young Friend”
Following on from yesterday’s focus on unity and diversity of European philanthropy, today’s painting used to illustrate a point from [...]
PEX through paintings #2 – “Simultaneous Dresses”
The second painting chosen to depict an issue from PEX 2020 is Delaunay’s “Simultaneous Dresses”. This seems to nicely allude [...]
PEX through paintings #1 – “The Scouting Party”
Wandering through Madrid's Museum Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, there is a diversity of paintings that summarise the wider context within which the [...]