08.04.2025

Erasmus+ Exhibition

Our eventful week in the Netherlands and the numerous museum visits provided many opportunities to engage artistically with the impressions we gained. A selection of works is presented in this exhibition. Essentially, four groups of works can be distinguished.

In our engagement with the works of the "Golden Age" and the "Introduction to the Dutch" tour at the Rijksmuseum, the great masterpieces of Dutch painting were reinterpreted. Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (around 1665) appears as a remix, reimagined through the strictly reduced forms of Mondrian and in reference to Van Gogh. Classic Vanitas still lifes were also transferred into the modern everyday life with contemporary details.

The engagement with Van Gogh's works, after direct observation, continued through the online format Lesson Up, which was presented by our Dutch colleague and the educational curator of the Van Gogh Museum in the context of the EPAS webinar "How to discuss mental wellbeing in the classroom?". The goal was to understand landscape painting, long regarded as secondary in the "hierarchy of genres," as a way to express inner states.

Van Gogh's painting Bedroom in Arles (1888) was also artistically addressed. Egon Schiele had already referenced Van Gogh’s world-famous painting, creating My Living Room (also known as Room of the Artist in Neulengbach, 1911). Now, the students of class 7A and 6C followed his footsteps and attempted to artistically depict rooms that seemed to be falling apart. The combination of Van Gogh with an Austrian modernist is also found in the impressive oil painting by our school representative.

The positions in pop and street art seen in the MOCO and STRAAT Museums were particularly accessible to the students and served as the base for representations of their own world and pop culture. Another work was created in reference to Basquiat, who, originally from the graffiti scene, was the first African American artist to achieve a breakthrough in the world of art and made street art "acceptable".

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