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Waarom kan dit niet in Brugge?

In januari 1566 kondigt een kwade koning van Spanje een streng plakkaat af in verband met de religie bij ons en de gedurige uitbreiding van de ketterij in zijn landen. ‘Maar in plaats van het vuur te dempen, laat hij het nog veel sterker branden.’ Schrijver Joannes-Petrus van Male blijkt dus inderdaad te beschikken over een schrandere geest en hij laat zich niet verleiden tot katholieke…

Waarom kan dit niet in Brugge?

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KASTEEL VAN OOIDONK - BELGIUM

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A brief overview of the Emile Claus art show in the Deinze museum.

(The clip is in Dutch but it hardly matters.)

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Emile Claus' ultimate masterpiece: "The Beet Harvest".

This painting is Flemish and world heritage.

(The canvas is 4.8 x 3.2 meter big: how long does it take a painter to cover every square cm meticulously with oil paint - which he did?)

(Belgium gets called the "flat country". Can you guess why?)

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Selfportrait of the Flemish painter Emile Claus.

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Some paintings of the Flemish artist Emile Claus.

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Visited the phenomenal art show “Emile Claus - Prince of Luminism” at the museum Mudel.

Luminism? That’s the art movement of the Flemish masters who - broadly speaking - took up Impressionism. (Art historians distinguish “luminism” and “impressionism” but I’ll skip that theoretical debate here.)

Personally, I would call Emile Claus the king of luminism, not a prince.

The scenes he fixed on the canvas are as Flemish as the work of earlier masters such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Had he worked in Paris instead of the banks of the Lys river (“Leie” in Dutch), he’d be as familiar as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir etc.

I always felt he belongs up there and visiting this show confirms it.

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