Discovering Belgian Art

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To mark the International Year of Cultural Diversity
The Art-Appreciation Lectures 2008, by Mariano Akerman

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Discovering Belgian Art – An Art Appreciation Lecture. Art historian Mariano Akerman discusses a select group of Belgian masterpieces, appreciating them from new and unexpected perspectives.

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Among the major achievements of the Belgian artists are the development of the oil painting technique, the fostering of new pictorial styles, the depiction of remarkable images, real and invented, and what may be the most incredible questioning of the concept of Reality in the history of Western art. Art Historian Mariano Akerman reveals the originality of a select group of Belgian masterpieces.  He examines their style and meanings, historical context, aesthetic qualities and raison d’être, appreciating them from new, unexpected perspectives.  

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Belgian Art - Art Belge - Belgische Kunst - Arte Belga

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Mariano Akerman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1963. He was educated at the School of Architecture of Universidad de Belgrano. Abroad, he has researched the work of the painter Francis Bacon and that of architect Louis Kahn. A painter himself, Mariano Akerman has exhibited his artwork solo or in group in Argentina, Spain, Japan, Philippines and Sweden. He has been awarded with twelve major international distinctions and prizes.