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In the past thirty years, for Czech art Alén Diviš (1900 – 1956) has become synonymous with the concept of the artistic outsider. The difficult to classify loner, creator of hallucinatory visions, horror scenes, and passionate religious depictions, is one of the least researched personalities in the world of Czech art, and he remains a man around whom many legends and myths are woven.
Alén Diviš spent most of his life abroad. At the end of the 1920s, he made his way to Paris, at the time the capital of modern art. At the beginning of the Second World War he was accused of spying here and spent several months incarcerated in solitary confinement at La Santé Prison. After passing through concentration camps in France, Morocco, and Martinique, he found refuge in New York. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1947, and during his short time here kindled interest in his work. However, as the Iron Curtain descended after 1948, he found himself marginalized, destitute, and forsaken. At various stages, Diviš was influenced by Cubism and Expressionism, and in his own individual way he anticipated Art Brut and Informal painting. His work was primarily based on a powerful preoccupation with existential themes, whether inspired by his own tragic lot or by literature.
This exhibition, the largest ever devoted to Diviš, gathers together all his preserved work for the first time. It contains a key cycle of prison walls, illustrations to accompany the ballads of Karel Jaromír Erben and the stories of Edgar Alan Poe, and closes with large-format carbon drawings inspired by the Bible.
To mark the exhibition, the Karel Svolinský and Vlasta Kubátová Foundation is publishing the first extensive Alén Diviš monograph, containing several hundred colour reproductions. This book has been written by Vanda Skálová and Tomáš Pospiszyl, who have managed to assemble previously unknown facts about the artist’s life and works.
The exhibition also includes the screening of Martin Řezníček’s documentary Sbohem slunce (‘Farewell Sun’) from 2002, which records the memories of those who met Alén Diviš in person.
Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.72 g, 4h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 4, AD 18-35. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS in small letters, laureate large head right, one ribbon on shoulder / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right on chair, feet on footstool, holding inverted spear in right hand and olive branch in left; ornate chair legs, single line below. RIC I 29 var. (scepter); Lyon 149; Calicó 305a; cf. BMCRE 46-47 var. (same); BN 22 cngcoins.com
Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.88 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15-13 BC. AVGVS[TVS] DIVI • F, bare head right / IMP X in exergue, Augustus seated left on curule chair set on low dais, receiving olive branch from soldier with parazonium. RIC I 162a; Lyon 11/2a (same dies as illustration); RSC 131; cf. BMCRE 449 (fourrée); BN 1361. cngcoins.com
AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.56 gm, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15-13 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI. F, bare head right; c/m: IMP. VES ligate within rectangular incuse in left field / IMP. X in exergue, bull butting right. RIC I 167a; BMCRE 451; RSC 137; for c/m: Howgego 839.
See BMCRE vol. II, pg. xvii where it is mentioned that the countermark is found on denarii from about 120 BC to those struck under Augustus. The countermark on this issue indicates the continued use of older coins in circulation and the occasional need to identify them as acceptable media of exchange. According to Howgego, this countermark was applied at Ephesus between 1 January 74 and 23 June 79 AD. cngcoins.com
A modern recreation of the Res Gestae of Augustus, on the Ara Pacis monument in Rome.
The first sentence:
Res gestae divi Augusti quibus orbem terrarum imperio populi Romani subiecit et inpensae quas in rem publicam populumque Romanum fecit.
The accomplishments of the deified Augustus, by which he placed the whole world under the sovereignty of the Roman people, and the amounts which he expended upon the state and the Roman people.
Tiberius. AD 14-37. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.80 g, 7h). “Tribute Penny” type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 4, AD 18-35. TI CΛESΛR DIVI ΛVG F ΛVGVSTVS, laureate head right; one ribbon on shoulder / PONTIF MΛXIM, Livia (as Pax), holding scepter in right hand and olive branch in left, seated right on chair, feet on footstool; ornate chair legs, single line below. RIC I 30; Lyon 150; RSC 16a; BMCRE 48-51; BN 28-31. cngcoins.com
Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.73 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 11 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head right / IMP • XII in exergue, bull butting right. RIC I 176a; Lyon 32; Calicó 220. cngcoins.com
Anthony, Danny, Niggle and I went to this new gay hip-hop club called Divi-Divi's. The camera is all shaky 'cause I was dancing at the time. BET happened to be filming there at da club that night. The bright light you see is from the BET camera man. So the funny thing is that yours truly (the Vietnamese, Asian VJ) might be on Black Entertainment Television :)
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Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.82 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 6, AD 36-37. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head right; long, parallel ribbons / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right on chair, feet on footstool, holding scepter in right hand and olive branch in left; ornate chair legs, single line below. RIC I 29; Lyon 153; Calicó 305c; BMCRE 47; BN 22. cngcoins.com
DAVIDE AUTELITANO
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@ Un tranquillo weekend di paura
Usmate (MB) - 19 Settembre 2009
foto: © Monelle Chiti
Some of the typical trees found everywhere on Aruba - the Divi Divi trees. These are shaped by the wind. The picture is taken on the North West side of the island, where the wind does not blow as strongly as on the East side of the island.
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Divis Tower,
Belfast
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The 9th august 1971, 11 civilians where killed by the british army during Operation Demetrius in Belfast.
40 years later the catholic community prepare to commemorate the anniversary of the Ballymurphy Massacre.
Each catholic district is striving to erect its giant bonfire, where the union jack colors will burn at midnight.
Belfast Bonfires 1/20
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