Perception of Time
How to deal with the passage of time, whether it is perceived as linear , as in birth leading toward death, or circular, offering the possibility of a rebirth .
Nicolas Poussin
A Dance to the Music of Time
c.1634 – c.1636
Oil on canvas
82.5 x 104 cm
Wallace collection, Londres
Data from: University of California, San Diego
Raoul Hausmann
Encre de Chine et illustrations de magazine découpées et collées sur papier
40,4 x 28,2 cm
Inscriptions :Non signé, non daté
Centre Beaubourg, Paris © ADAGP.
Time management
How to identify our moment of opportunity? How to have the courage to form a long-term vision while the world is being consumed by the “tragedy of the horizon” as analyzed by Marc Carney?
Roy Lichtenstein
Wall Explosion II (detail)
1963
Tate Modern, London
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Chrestien Wechel
Andrea Alciato’s Livret des Emblemes
1536
https://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
leadership
What makes for a good leader? In turbulent times, works of art from around the world offer surprising and inspiring clues to think out of the box.
Antoine-Jean Gros
General Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken at Jaffa
1823
Oil on canvas
118.7 x 163.8 cm
Image © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Master Lei Yixin
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Independence Avenue SW, in honor of the Civl Rights Act of 1964
2010
Washington DC
female leadership
How are women leaders represented in paintings and statues ? What has changed – or perhaps has not changed – about this representation from ancient times to the modern era ?
Nicholas Hilliard
Portrait of queen Elizabeth I
Oil on panel
78.5 x 61 cm
Walker art Gallery Liverpool
wikicommons Source/Photographer
Eugène Delacroix
Liberty leading the people (detail)
1837
Oil on canvas
62 x 74 cm
inclusion
How to deal with the responsibility of welcoming difference and otherness? Exploring art provides new ways to be more inclusive, respectful of each and every human being.
Clyfford Still
American, b. Grandin, North Dakota, 1904–1980
Oil on canvas
286.8 X 373.3 cm
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Lucian Freud
Nude with Leg Up (Leigh Bowery)
1992
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
gender
What is feminine, what is masculine ? How does art deal with gender and gender fluidity and help us unnderstand contemporary societies ?
Agnolo di Cosimp Bronzino
A Dance to the Music of Time
c.1634 – c.1636
Oil on canvas
82.5 x 104 cm
Wallace collection, Londres
Data from: University of California, San Diego
Maître des Heures de Henri II
François Ier en déité composite
Allégorie en divinités antiques
1550
Enluminure sur double feuille de parchemin collée sur un panneau de chêne. Hauteur : 234 mm ; largeur : 134 mm
BnF, département des Estampes et de la photographie, RÉSERVE NA-255-Objet
© Bibliothèque nationale de France
identity
How to define identity, as a person, as a business, as an entity? “Know thyself”. What makes us unique? However, one is often prone to playing a role on the corporate stage when in charge ; there is always a mask to wear , an institution to embody. How to mastering the dialectic of identity, freedom and leadership responsibility?
YVES KLEIN
Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 100)
1960
Dry pigment and synthetic resin on paper mounted on canvas
57 x 117 1/2 inch
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C
Willem de Kooning
Two Women in the Country
1954
Oil paint, enamel and charcoal on canvas
117.1 x 103.5 cm
Hirshhorn Museum, WASHINGTON DC
INNOVATION
Even valuable masterpieces are never completely new. Artists find inspiration in what has come before them, picking from other patterns, shapes, forms, compositions, topics.
Edouard Manet
Luncheon on the Grass
1863
oil on canvas
82 x 104 in
Musée d’Orsay
© RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Marcantonio Raimondi
The Judgment of Paris
ca. 1510–20
Marcantonio Raimondi Designed by Raphael (1483–1520)
Engraving
29.2 x 43.6 cm
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art , public domain
creativity
How do visual artists solve creative problems, the lack of ideas? Where do they find inspiration? Where can we?
André Derain
Henri Matisse
1905
Oil paint on canvas
46 × 34 cm
Tate gallery, London
Data from: University of California, San Diego
© 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Henri Matisse
André Derain
1905
Oil paint on canvas
39.4 × 28.9 cm
Tate gallery, London
© Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2020
crisis time versus ordinary time
Let ’s explore the idea of crisis, which offers the possibility of rebirth. How to turn every obstacle into an opportunity ?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Harvesters
1565
Oil on wood
119 x 162 cm
MET, New-York
Allan Sekula – Bruno Serralongue
Hamburg landfall
2009
sexual harassment
Studying Western art masterpieces gives us the opportunity to examine our feelings about the impossible reconciliation of violence and seduction.
Guido Reni
Abduction of Helen
1631
oil on canvas
253 x 265 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Image and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.
Gian Lorenzon Bernini
Pluto and Proserpina
1621-1622
sculpture marble
255 cm
Galleria Borghese
Data from: University of California, San Diego
guilt and innocence
The victim is often seen as the guilty party. Lust, admiration, cruelty: 16th and 17th European paintings show how innocence can be translated into guilt. Will there be justice, and for whom ?
Nicolas Poussin
Judgment of Solomon
1649
oil on canvas
100 × 150 cm
Musée du Louvre
Painting–France–17th C. A.D
ARTstor Slide Gallery
Data from: University of California, San Diego
Rembrandt van Rijn
Susanna
1636
oil painting on panel
47.4 cm × 38.6 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Burnout
How can art help us in the struggle to overcome burnout? Covid and workplace changes are creating an epidemic of burnout across many fields. Art has a unique role to play in helping to reignite the creative process. By examining how artists work and renew the creative process, we can gain fresh insights into how to cultivate mental well-being in the workplace.
Vincent Van Gogh
Self portrait with a bandaged ear
1889
Oil on canvas
60.5 × 50 cm
Courtauld Gallery, London
© The Samuel Courtauld Trust
Paul Signac
In the Time of Harmony
1894-1895
Oil on canvas
312 × 410 cm
Montreuil city hall
female symbols
How have the representations of female figures throughout the centuries expressed the ideas of virtue, liberty, nation, kingdom, and eventually the republic ?
Robert Campin
Workshop
The Virgin and Child in an Interior
The National gallery, London
Villa Carducci
The Cumean Sibyl
1450
Fresco transferred to wood
250 × 154 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
female body
Since the celebrated Venus Pudica, who simultaneously covers and attracts attention to her sexuality, how does the gaze of a man inform the female body in art? The breast, for instance, reconciles opposite meanings : erotic and maternal, sacred and secular, source of life or a dried up cspring. Each breast representation in the Renaissance art is rich of many meanings that are layered as in a palimpsest.
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée
Service pour la Laiterie de Rambouillet. Paire de Bols sein
1788
Sèvres, Cité de la Céramique
Alberto Giacometti
Composition (Man and Woman)
Bronze sculpture
1927, cast 1964
Tate Modern, London
Intercultural relations
Artists find inspiration in a permanent around-the-world voyage oor a journey through time/the past. Let’s observe works of art that are as far apart as we may imagine : Europe and Japan ? What about the artistic exchanges ? Cultural and artistic exchanges usually appear in the wake of commercial trade. What is the relationship between artists and new forms in comparison with what they are accustomed to see ?
JAMES WHISTLER
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
1875
Oil on canvas
60 x 47 cm
Institute of art, Detroit
Vincent van Gogh
Courtesan
1887
oil on cotton
100.7 cm x 60.7 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
trust
Democracy, the market economy, but also families and teams, need trust to function properly, as demonstrated Alain Peyrefitte in his book ”the Trust Society”. The biggest loss of all would be a loss of trust, when people end up thinking that the system does not work for the common good. When trust is central, the lack of trust could be destructive.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Portrait of an Old Man and a Young Boy
around 1490
oil on wood
62 x 46 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Image and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.,
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
The Night Watch
1642
437 x 363 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
trade and money
Money is at the heart of the relationship between business, shareholders and employees. Dividends, salaries, bonuses — it’s all about money. The stage is set for a difficult reconciliation of opposites: money can be isolating and lead to loss, but it can also unite.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Tower of Babel
1563
Oil on Wood
155 x 114 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
Andy Warhol
Dollar Bills
1962
54 x 72 cm
United States
Private Collection Artwork: © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Made in China forever
In pre-Revolutionary France, the label « made in China » was synonymous with the most exclusive luxury goods. Works of art shed light on the long history of political and artistic exchange between the Middle Kingdom and Western countries.
François Boucher
La Toilette
1742
Oil on canvas
52.5 x 66.5 cm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Bernard II van Risenburgh
Commode
1740–45
MET, New York
gardens: mirrors of cultural exchanges
A garden is a microcosm, a means of self-expression, revealing an evolving view of the human relationship with nature, as well as divergent national identities.
Unknown draftsman
Plan général des jardins de Versailles
1720
© RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot
William Chambers
Dissertation on Oriental Gardening: title page
1772
Data from: University of California, San Diego