Egg – the symbol of life, the victory over death, new beginnings and recoveries. And one of those gracious subjects in art which seems to be an endless inspiration for the artists. If you don’t know what do with too many Easter eggs, have a look on our painterly suggestions.
Happy Easter everyone!
Have a concert
Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, Concert in the egg, 1480, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Or a dance
Jan Steen, Egg Dance, 1674, Private Collection
Paint them (like in Eastern Europe!)
Andy Warhol, Eggs, 1982
Sleep with them
Lucian Freud, Naked Girl With Egg, 1981, British Council, London
Make them a political statement
Oskar Kokoschka, The Red Egg, 1941, Nationalgalerie Prag, Prague
Or a subject of a Surrealist construction on a cord
Salvador Dalí, Eggs on the Plate without the Plate, 1932, Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, FL
Make an egg a living creature
Odilon Redon, The Egg, 1885, National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade
Or a legit work of art…
Piero Manzoni, Uovo scultura, 1960, Museo di Novecento, Milan
In order to eat it (which therefore becomes an artistic act as well)
Piero Manzoni eats the egg imprinted by him, Galleria Azimut, 1960, Giuseppe Bellone
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Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.
