Kröller Müller Museum
This afternoon, Conny and I visited the
Kröller-Müller Museum. We first saw the temporary exhibition
with works by Corenlius Rogge. Next we saw the long term exhibition. I found
the following works worth mentioning:
- Vanitas, Pieter Claesz, about 1630.
- Bouw van de toren van Babel, Hendrick van Leve (III), 16th century
- Landschap met sloot, Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël, about 1886.
- L'Arc-en-ciel, Pntoise, Camillo Pissarro, 1877.
- Le bateau-atelier, Claude Monet, 1874.
- Portrait of Joseph-Michel Ginoux, Vincent van Gogh, 1888.
- Sheaves of wheat, Vincent van Gogh, 1888.
- Girl in a wood, Vincent van Gogh, August 1882.
- Lane of poplars at sunset, Vincent van Gogh, October 1884.
- Head of a man with a pipe, Vincent van Gogh, 1884-1885
- Peasunt women digging up potatoes, Vincent van Gogh, 1885
- Men at table, Vincent van Gogh, 1885.
- The potato eaters, Vincent van Gogh, 1885.
- Head of a woman, Vincent van Gogh, 1885.
- Autumn landscape, Vincent van Gogh, 1885.
- Vincent, Vilmos Huszá 1915.
- Compositie in kleur A, Piet Mondraan, 1917.
- Compositie in line, second state, Piet Mondraan, 1916-1917.
- Compositie in no.XI, Piet Mondraan, 1912.
- Tableau no. 1, Piet Mondraan, 1913.
- Compositie 10 in black and white, Piet Mondraan, 1915.
- Compositie in kleur B, Piet Mondraan, 1917.
- Afternoon sun, Leo Gestel, 1908.
- Landscape near Montfoort, Leo Gestel, 1909.
- Crystal Waters, Ana Maria Tavares, 2008.
- Old apple tree blossomming, Charley Toorop, 1947.
- Self-portraint in front of a palette, Charley Toorop, 1934.
- Self-portraint, Charley Toorop, 1953-1954.
- Self-portraint, Charley Toorop, 1943-1944.
- Medusa chooses the sear, Charley Toorop, 1939-1941.
- Composition 1917 no.4 (leaving the factory), Bart van de Leck, 1917.
- Composition 1916, Bart van de Leck, 1916.
- Composition 1917 no.3 (leaving the factory), Bart van de Leck, 1917.
- Sculpture 23, Rudolf Belling, 1923. (Cast in the sixties.)
- Abstract Figure, Oskar Schlemmer, 1921.
- La butte Montmartre, Vincent van Gogh, 1886.
- Enclosed wheat field with rising sun, Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
- Cypresses with two figures, Vincent van Gogh, 1889-1890.
- Pink peach trees ('Souvenir de Mauve'), Vincent van Gogh, 1888.
- Tree trunks with Ivy, Vincent van Gogh, July 1889.
- Still life with a plate of unions, Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
- Four sunflowers gone to seed, Vincent van Gogh, 1887.
- Smoked herrings, Vincent van Gogh, 1886.
- Still life with potatoes, Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
- The lover (portrait of Lieutenant Millet), Vincent van Gogh, 1888.
- Terrace of café at night (Place du Forum), Vincent van Gogh, 1888.
- Le canal, William Degouve de Nuncques, 1892.
- The blind house, William Degouve de Nuncques, 1892.
- Collioure, the bell tower, Opus 164, Paul Signac.
- Harbour entrance at Honfleur, Georges Seurat, 1886.
- In July - before noon or The orchard, Georges Seurat, 1890.
- Portrait of Eva Callimachi-Catargi, Henri Fautin-Latour, 1881.
- Woman in black evening dress, Isaac Israels, 1917.
- Mata Hari, Isaac Israels, 1916.
- The wish-ribbon net, Ana Maria Tavares, 2008.
- Wall drawing, Sol Lewitt, 1971.
- Large split drum, Oceania, 19th century.
- Rebecca, Ossip Zadkine.
- Little owel, Pablo Picasso, 1951-1953.
After this we visited the exhibition Marinus Boezem. All Shows, where say and/or experienced the following
works:
- Show XI, 1966.
- Show III, 1964-1965.
- Show VIII, 1966.
- Show XIV, 1967.
- Show XIV, 1968.
- Show I, 1964.
- Show VI, 1965.
- Show X, 1967.
- Show V, 1965.
- Show XV, 1968.
- Show VII, 1965.
- Show II, 1965.
- Show XII, 1967.
- Show IX, 1965.
- Show IV, 1964-1965.
At last we saw:
- Planned Landscapes - 25 Horizons, Ger Dekker.
- Opposites of white, Roni Horm.
- Distance = Length, Length = Distance, Stanley Brown.
At 16:46:56, I bought the book following two books from the museum bookshop:
- Marinus Boezem. Alle shows | All Shows written by Lisette Pelsers,
Marinus Boezem, and Frans Josef Witteveen in Dutch and English, published
by Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo in 2021,
ISBN:9789073313606, for € 19.95.
- Kröller-Müller Museum. Nederlandse Editie edited by
Lisette Pelsers, Toos van Kooten, and Bas Mühren, written in Dutch
and published by Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo in 2015,
ISBN:9789073313378, for € 15.00.
Wedding
At noon, Conny and I got married. We had the official
wedding ceremony at the townhall of Harderwijk (a small city, with a long history). Annabel and her boyfriend where the only guests present. We exchanged
rings (made from palladium) during the ceremony and started wearing a similar Rebelz & Angelz wristband after the
ceremony. Afterwards we walked into the city and had lunch. We walked through
the city hortus (botanical garden), which was part of the university that was in the city from 1648 till 1794. Next we visited
the Marius van Dokkum
Museum, which is the only official museum in the Netherlands from a living
artist. He is a painter who paints figurative paintings with a twist of humor.
He is also very good at painting photorealistic still lifes. He was present in
the attic working on a larger version of one of his earlier paintings. There
was an audio tour where he explained some of his paintings, which was quite
interesting. We all enjoyed it very much. Next we walked through the city and
visited an old church known as Grote Kerk. We walked along the water front.
Harderwijk used to be on the sea side (Zuiderzee) before it was a dam was created IJsselmeer. We had a dinner at
Walhalla on the beach.
Elburg
Conny and I visited the city of Elburg. We first visited the city musuem where we saw the Kunst &
corona exhibition and next we saw the
exhibition about the history of the city. We walked around the city and after
having some lunch, we walked some more. We visited the De Groene Kruidhof herb garden and bought some seeds for herbs. We visited
the church called Sint-Nicolaaskerk and climbed the tower.
Walking
Today, Conny and I went walking in three
locations. First we visited a forest where there was a hidden village from
April 1943 till its discovery in October 1944. There were about eighty people
living in the village, which consisted of nine huts.
Next we visited an area where there are eight burial mounds close together. We
found seven of them. In the area they also found celtic fields. We also walked to a small hill that is called Galgenberg,
suggesting that there were gallows on the hill during the middle ages.
In the evening, we walked around a sand drift are called Beekhuizerzand and
watched the sun set.
Het Bolwerk
This evening, I visited the bar Het Bolwerk to see some friends that I have not
seen for over a year. Actually, we were sitting outside. It was good to talk
with them. We used to see eachother every second Wednesday of the month and now
that it is possible again, we will continue doing so. I went inside and saw
the exhibtion Tussen hemel en aarde with
portrets by Marianne Stoevenbeld (on Instagram).
Vaccination pass
In countries around the Netherlands, such as France and Germany, restrictions
are imposed on citizens who are not vaccinated against COVID-19. Although, I am not against vaccinations, I do find this a
troubling development. In the Netherlands, medical conditions are a private
matter. For this reason, an employer is not allowed to ask if an employee has
been vaccinated. A company doctor has the same professional secrecy as any
other doctor and is not allowed to inform the employer about any medical
details. Of course, a government is allowed to take action with respect to
public health. I also have no problem with having to prove that I am not
infectious when wanting to attend a certain event or visit a certain location,
because I do not have to reveal that I have been vaccinated or not, because
such a proof could also have come from recent test. I also have no problem
with the fact that vaccinations are provided for free and that people have to
pay for tests. Our government have said in the past that they are not going to
force people to become vaccinated, but I am afraid that they too will start
requiring proof of vaccination in the future. The paper Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Among Vaccinated Healthcare Workers,
Vietnam in The Lancet, seems to indicate that vaccination is not a guard
against becoming infected with a (variant of) COVID-19 and spreading it to
others. Governments are motivating the decision to put restrictions on people
who are not vaccinated with the argument that a small majority of anti-vaxsers
is keeping society from returning to normal. This seems to implies that
everyone who is not vaccinated against COVID-19 is an anti-vaxxer, which I
think does not need to be the case. Also, if the vaccination degree is so high,
one would expect that herd immunity has been reached and that the risk for
large outbreaks have been minimized. If that is not the case, it could be that
vaccination is not such an effective method for preventing large outbreaks as
it has been claimed to be. Also, I am afraid that people who are still doubting
whether they should be vaccinated against COVID-19, could decided against it
now that governments are putting pressure on them to be vaccinated. It has
become clear that governments have made very profitable deals with
pharmaceutical companies that have caused those companies to make very large
profits without any further risk, because there is no form of compensation for
possible negative side (short or long-term) effects of a vaccination.
Pharmaceutical companies waive all resposibilities and also governments do not
take that responsibility. This makes you wonder on which side governments are:
on the side of large and powerfull companies or on the side of their citizens.
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
This afternoon, Conny and I visited Kunstmuseum Den Haag on invitation by Peter
Struycken. With him we visited the
exhibition Bob Bonies and Mondrian & De Stijl. From the last exhibition, I found the following
works worth mentioning:
- Victory Boogie Woogie, Piet Mondriaan.
- Composition in Red, Black, Yellow, Blue and Grey, Piet Mondriaan, 1921.
- Composition with yellow lines, Piet Mondriaan, 1933.
- Tableau I (Paiting I), Piet Mondriaan, 1921.
- Study for Measure for Measure 1, Bridget Riley, 2016.
- Two Yellows, Composition with Circles 7, Bridget Riley, 2011
- Measure for Measure 1, Bridget Riley, 2016
- Descending, Bridget Riley, 1965.
- Two Reds with Violet, Bridget Riley, 2008.
- Compostion No. 31, Piet Mondriaan, 1927.
- Relief Néo-plastique no. 10, César Domela, 1930.
- Couple Dancing, Vilmas Huszár, ca. 1928.
- Composition-assemblage-fotogram, Lászio Moholy-Nagy, 1926.
- Tiles with abstract picture, Bart van de Leck
- Composition No IV/Composition 6, Piet Mondriaan, 1914.
- Counter-composition of dissonants, Theo van Doesburg, 1925.
- Black and White, Mariow Moss, 1932.
- Three strained glass windows for the doorways in the Spangen quarter, Rotterdam, Theo van Doesburg, 1919.
- Composition 1917, no 1 (Dog cart), Bart van de Leck, 1917.
- Composition with red, yellow, black, blue and grey, Piet Mondriaan, 1921.
- Compostiion with grid 9: Checkerboard composition with bright colours, Piet Mondriaan, 1919.
- The grey tree, Piet Mondriaan, 1911.
- Model of Rietveld-Schröder House, 1924.
- Flowering apple tree, Piet Mondriaan, 1912.
- Composition XVII, Theo van Doesburg, 1919.
- Elling buffet, Gerrit Rietveld, 1919.
- Composition II (Skaters), Vilmos Huszár, February 1917.
- Composition, Chris Beekman, 1920.
- Composition IX, Opus 18, Further Imagining of the Card Players, Theo van Doesburg, 1917.
- A farm shed behind a fence, Piet Mondriaan, ca. 1902-1904.
- Haystack behind a farm, Piet Mondriaan, ca. 1902-1904.
- Landzicht farm (oil study), Piet Mondriaan, ca. 1905.
- Irrigation ditch with two willows, Piet Mondriaan, ca. 1900-1902.
- View of the Schinkelbuurt, Piet Mondriaan, ca 1895.
- Willows with the sun (oil study), Piet Mondriaan, 1902-1907.
- The Singel, Amsterdam, Piet Mondriaan, 1893.
- Oostzijdse Mill, Piet Mondriaan, 1906-1907.
- Composition 'De Stijl', Vilmos Huszár, 1950-1955.
- Seascape, Piet Mondriaan, 1909.
- Sea after sunset, Piet Mondriaan, 1909.
- Evening; The red tree, Piet Mondriaan, 1908-1910.
- Bosch (Woods), woods near Oele, Piet Mondriaan, 1908.
- The red cloud, Piet Mondriaan, 1907.
- Dunes near Domburg, Piet Mondriaan, 1910.
- Evolution, Piet Mondriaan, 1911.
- Aäronskelken (Arum lillies), Piet Mondriaan, 1910.
- Mill: mill in sinlight, Piet Mondriaan, 1908
- Devotion, Piet Mondriaan, 1908.
- Dune landscape, Piet Mondriaan, 1911.
- Lighthouse at Westkapelle, Piet Mondriaan, 1909.
- Trees on the Gein; moonrise, Piet Mondriaan, 1907-1908.
- Landscape at evening, Piet Mondriaan, 1908.
- Fen near Saasveld, Piet Mondriaan, 1907.
- Derdge, Piet Mondriaan, 1907.
- Oostzijde mill in moonlight, Piet Mondriaan, ca. 1907.
- Model of Fallingwater house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935-1939.
- Young Holland tile picture, Jan Toorop, 1903.
And then we discovered it was near closing time and that we did not have time
to see the other exhibitions. In the evening, we also took a look at his
installation De Vlam (The Flame) at The Royal Academy of Art and took some pictures of it.
Book
I recieved the book Rijksaankopen 1984 written by Evelyn Beer in Dutch
and published by Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst in May 1985, which I had bought
on Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 01:32:03 from indenolifant.nl for € 11.00.
Pump not working
The pump of the self watering plant is no
longer working as it seems. I am not sure if the problem is with the pump
itself or the transistor switching it on.
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
This afternoon, I visited Rijksmuseum Twenthe
where I saw a number of exhibitions. The first
exhibition I visited is Na de Jacht! | After the Hunt!. I found the following works worth
mentioning:
- View of Hampstead Heath: Child's Hill, with Harrow in the Distance, John Constable, 1824.
- Recreation Area #9, Renie; Spoelstra, 2003.
- Preserved Places, Diepenhem: Fragments of a Landscape without Fear, No. 5, 8 and 18, Carlijn Mens, 2011.
- Respice Finem: Periculum, Respice Finem: Exitium and Respice Finem: Contemplatio, Inge Reisberman, 2017.
- The Embium Building in the Sky, Rik Smits, 2011.
- Fallen Angel, Christiaan Zwanikken, 2011.
- Helsinki Shadow, Andrei Roiter, 2006.
- Nr. 61, Mitja Twek, 1992.
- Dirty road sound, Andrei Roiter, 2005.
- Thank you for hurting me. I really needed that..., Melanie Bonajo, 2005.
The next exhibition I encountered is Sheer seeds and monochrome instability by Christiaan Zwanikken. It consists of the works:
- Nose patrol, 2015-2016.
- Kinetic garden, 2016-2021.
- Hypergravity bio portal, 2021.
Then, I saw the exhibition Paradox of the Danish Golden Age. I found the following works worth
mentioning:
- Moonlit scene, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1821.
- The Bacnqueting Hall at Frederiksborg Castle in the Reign of Christian IV (1588-1659), Henrich Hansen, 1859.
- Italian Woman with a Blue Tamborine, Wilhelm Marstrand, no date.
- Winter Scene from the Forest at Hillerød, Thorvald Niss, no date.
- View from the North Coast of Zealand across the Kattegat with Kullen in the background, Peter Christian Skovgaard, ca. 1832.
- The Beach at Hellebæk, Peter Christian Skovgaard, 1858.
- Winter Landscape of Nothern Zealand Type, Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1876.
- A Milkmaid, Otto Backe, 1876.
- Cupid and Psyche Embracing, Nicolai Abildgaard, no date.
- Hagar and Ismaë in the Desert, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1812.
- The temple of Vesta in Rome, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1814-1816.
- Portrait of Emil and Auna Poulsen, Peder Severin Krøyer, 1885.
- Bust of Alfred Hage (1803-1872), Herman Wilhelm Bissén, 1856.
- Bust of Carl Plong (1813-1894), Herman Wilhelm Bissén, 1857.
- Bust of Wilhelmine Heise (1838-1912), Herman Wilhelm Bissén, 1860.
- Bust of Peter Heise (1830-1879), Herman Wilhelm Bissén, 1862.
- Nightmare, Ditlev Blunck, 1846.
- Italian landscape, Peter Christian Skovgaard, 1854.
- S. Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Carl Neumann, no date.
- Portrait of the painter Christian Angust Lorentzen (1749-1828, Martinus Rørbye, 1827.
- View from Monte Pinolo in Rome, Peter Christian Skovgaard, 1861.
- View of the sea near Sorrento, Martinus Rørbye, 1835.
I also walked through the garden within the museum and smelled the lavender
plants and looked at the plants that the artist Claudy Jongstra uses for colouring the wool used in her carpets.
At 16:35, I bought the catalogue Na de Jacht: Tien jaar verzamelen in 100
kunstwerken written by Josien Beltman in Dutch published by the museum in
2021 from the museum shop for € 4.95.
On my way home, I visited some of the locations of the Allée Rentrée tour. I saw:
- Two works by Elsbeth Cochius at Bamshoevelaan 49.
- De rode baron by Jelle de Graaf, 2020, at Bamshoevelaan 49.
- Satyr & Pan by Jelle de Graaf at Lonnekerspoorlaan 70.
- Two works by Willemijn Calis at Lonnekerspoorlaan 62.
- Het Kreatieve Brein, deel 2 by Katinka Hamming at Lonnerspoorlaan 58.
- Exhibition of works by Roel Dikken at Bookshop Broekhuis.
Allée Rentrée
This afternoon, I visited some of the Allée Rentrée locations:
- At 13:41: Gelderlandstraat 76: Nobody opened when I knocked on the door.
- At 13:48: Gertfertsingel 76, Studio Complex: I biked around the rather
empty area.
- At 13:59, Langestraat: Neem mij voor lief with photographs by Indra Simons and poems by Regine Hilhorst.
- At 13:61, Klokkenplas 17: No activity to be seen.
- At 14:09, Hoge Bothofstraat 166, B93: Two photo exhibitions:
- At 14:27, HB Blijdensteinlaan 85, Dynamo Expo: Nederland in
quarantaine by Annabel
Jeuring.
- At 14:29, Schurinksweg 65: HUISVANTUINEN.
- At 14:31, Dr. Van Damstraat 28: Anastassia Solovieva.
- De Kunsthaven: Nicole Wegter
Book
At 14:19, I bought the book The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel written by David Levithan in English and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in
2011, ISBN:9781429994309, from thrift store Het Goed
for € 2.25. I bought the book because of the concept of naming the
sections with words from a dictionary.
This afternoon, I spend some time looking at the code in
stage2 of
stage0 repository, which
contains a minimal C compiler, which can compile (a slightly modified
version of) Tiny C
Compiler, which can be used to compile GCC 4.7.4. In the past week, I have been thinking about
a minimal programming language that could be used to implement a minimal C
compiler to compile Tiny C. I have been thinking about some extensions of
BrainFuck that would be easy to implement in
assembly. The extensions I was thinking about was to add instructions to
address memory location (where each memory cell contains a 32-bit unsigned
value) and some mechanism to define routines that could be called recursively.
In the evening, I finshed reading The Zen of R2-D2: Ancient Wisdom from a
Galaxy Far, Far Away written by Matthew Bortolin, which I started
reading on August 2 after I bought it on
Friday, July 9. I did not find the book very
interesting with respect to zen. This is primarily because I
no longer believe in some of the assumptions on
which zen is based. I did find the book interesting with respect to what the
author writes about the Star
Wars films, in particular episodes
VII,
VIII, and
IX.
A bit more complicated
The things a bit more complicated than I thought with bootstrapping a C
compiler. Yesterday, I found live-bootstrap, which automates all the steps to bootstrap a minimal
number of binary seeds to a supported fully functional operating system. The
steps are described in the parts.rst file. The file points to the oriansj/stage0-posix repository. (I understand that a fork of the
Tiny C Compiler,
Bootstrappable TCC/TinyCC, is
used.) I decided to study the stage0-posix/x86/mescc-tools-mini-kaem.kaem script. This script
asumes the presence of hex0, an executable that transforms a text
file with hexadecimal numbers to a binary file. (A high-level representation of
the hex0 is the C program hex0.c.) The steps related to the first six phases of the script,
with links to the source files, are:
- Use hex0 to convert
hex1_x86.hex0 to the hex1 executable.
(A high-level representation of hex1 is the C program
hex1.c.)
- Use hex0 to convert
catm_x86.hex0 to the catm executable.
- Use hex1 to convert
hex2_x86.hex1 to the hex2-0 executable.
(A high-level representation of hex2 is the C program
hex2.c.)
- Use catm to concatenate
ELF-i386.hex2 and
M0_x86.hex2
into the temporary file hold.
- Use hex2-0 to convert the temporary file hold
to M0 executable.
(A high-level representation of M0 is the C program
M0-macro.c.)
- Use M0 to convert
cc_x86.M1 to the temporary file temp1.
- Use catm to concatenate ELF-i386.hex2 with the
temporary file temp1 into the temporary file hold.
- Use hex2-0 to convert the temporary file hold
to cc_X86 executable.
(A high-level representation of cc_X86 are the C files in
stage0/stage2/High_level_prototypes/cc_x86, I guess, where
cc_core.c contains the code generation code.)
- Use catm to concatenate:
to the temporary file hold.
- Use cc_x86 to convert the temporary file hold
into the intermediate file M2.M1
- Use catm to concatenate
x86_defs.M1,
libc-core.M1, and the intermediate file M2.M1
into the temporary file hold.
- Use M0 to convert the temporary file hold
to the temporary file temp1.
- Use catm to concatenate ELF-i386.hex2 with the
temporary file temp1 into the temporary file hold.
- Use hex2-0 to convert the temporary file hold
to M2 executable.
If I understand correctly, the M2 executable is a C cross compiler for
multiple platforms, where the cc_X86 is limited C compiler for the
X86 platform.
Book
At 17:00, I bought the book Beelden in de Berm: vijf-en-tachtig,
kunstobjecten, vanuit de auto written by Karin van Munster in Dutch and
published by ANWB in 2003,
ISBN:9789018016982, from thrift store Het Goed
for € 1.75.
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