To Celebrate Friendship and Cultural Diversity
The Art-Appreciation Lectures 2008-9, by Mariano Akerman

 1. The Marvel of Belgian Art and Its Diversity
2. Belgian Art: Reality and Fantasy
3. Tradition and Innovation in the Visual Arts of Belgium

Joris Hoefnagel, Detail from Mira calligraphiae monumenta, c. 1591, fol. 143v

  
Belgian Art - Art Belge - Belgische Kunst - Arte Belga, clip 01.05.08

Discovering Belgian Art
Among the achievements of the Belgian artists are the invention of the oil painting technique, the fostering of remarkable pictorial styles and a whole questioning of the notion of "reality" as such. Art Historian Mariano Akerman reveals the singularity and originality of a select group of Belgian masterpieces. He examines their style and meaning, historical context, aesthetic qualities and raisons d'être, appreciating them from unexpected, innovative perspectives.

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Mariano Akerman, Art Historian

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1963. Educated at the School of Architecture of Universidad de Belgrano, completed his studies with a prized graduation project on the limits and space in modern architecture in 1987. Abroad during the 1990s, Akerman researched the paintings of Francis Bacon and architectural projects of Louis Kahn. He was the organizer, consultant and designer of The Carl Linnaeus Educational Lectures on Science and Art, Manila 2007.

Specializing in visual communication, Mariano Akerman is an experienced educator. He takes a special interest in modern art and in Belgian painting in particular. He has lectured on this topic at renowned institutions such as the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, the National Museum of the Philippines in Manila, Alliance Fraçaise Karachi, and the IFWA Center in Islamabad. A painter himself, Akerman has exhibited his artwork solo or in group in Argentina, Spain, Japan, Philippines and Sweden. He has been awarded with twelve major international prizes.

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BELGIAN MASTERS

Jan van Eyck

Rogier de la Pasture

Hieronymous Bosch

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Peter-Paul Rubens

Antoine Wiertz

Constantin Meunier

Armand de Beul

Georges Lemmen

James Ensor

Léon Spillaert 

René Magritte

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