Low-cut is a collection of rhymes about current events and relationships. With playful fantasies, it also lends suspicions to what seem like real and provocative thoughts - previously they were called the "aphorisms." The lyrics are sometimes literally low cut. There is a rhyme about the best whore of all the walls, when Sunday has fallen down the stairs and one, which is about the dumb blonde on the tombstone. They have no pretensions other than recalling a fleeting smile to the reader. Hans Janssen(1947) was an educator and writer of more than ten books for parents, caregivers, students and babies. He worked full time writing magazine articles, scripts for parenting courses and other publications. Yet Low-cut is his debut as a rhyme collect... "Poem Collection" would be a too strong a phrase.
What was De Stijl? This fascinating survey, the most comprehensive book to be published on the subject, seeks to unravel that question and to consider how the theory of De Stijl (Dutch for "The Style") matched its actual practice. There are various answers: De Stijl was a magazine; De Stijl was an art movement; and De Stijl was an idea, a world view, and an approach to life. And from the 1930s onwards, De Stijl was recognized internationally as the most important contribution to modern culture made by The Netherlands. It is associated with such instantly recognizable objects as the radical geometric abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian, with their perpendicular relationships and primary colors; the dynamic architectural drawings of Theo van Doesburg, which explode the conventional box-like structure of a building and show it as interpenetrating spaces unfolding in time; and the experimental furniture of Gerrit Rietveld, who took the most familiar of objects, the armchair, and reconfigured it as a series of self-supporting planks and struts. In each case, the artists, architects and designers seem to have had a common aspiration to work together to forge a new cultural consensus and "style" for the modern age. In The Story of De Stijl, which draws extensively on original sources, the authors challenge the understanding of De Stijl as a coherent movement, presenting a series of "scenes" focused on crucial turning points in the history of De Stijl and bringing to the foreground the key relationships and interactions that brought De Stijl to life. It is profusely illustrated with a range of images, many previously unseen, from artworks and buildings to photographs, letters, and documents, that, along with anecdotes, articles, and even footnotes combine to convey the texture of the world De Stijl emerged from. This accessible yet authoritative account is set to become the standard reference work on an important and fascinating modern movement.
Cardinal points" is an exhibition catalogue on the works by Steven Aalders presented in The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag showing the dialogue between the museum's architect H.P. Berlage and with works that were selected from the museum's collection. Aalders is pre-eminently an artist who observes and analyses. It is no coincidence that he occasionally writes essays on exhibitions and the work of other artists. On initial consideration, the association with Piet Mondrian speaks for itself. But Aalders' relationship with other artists goes well beyond the example of Mondrian. He analyses, for instance, the paintings of Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Jan Schoonhoven and Ad Dekkers. Exhibition: Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, 30 January - 25 April 2010.
A special type of a high pressure homogenizer valve was studied for the dispersive mixing of oil-in-water emulsions. Various hydrodynamic regimes and flow fields were identified using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS and, for each regime the stable droplet sizes were estimated. Experimental validation was carried out using a coarse emulsion containing 10 wt% sunflower oil stabilized with Pluronic F68, which was dispersed in the homogenizer apparatus. The change in oil droplet size with pressure drop is attributed to the high speedjet leaving the gap.
De Stijl is by far the most easily recognisable of all European avant-gardes. The radically geometrical construction and the cheery colourfulness of the art of Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, Bart van der Leck and their companions have become a trademark. This book brings it back to life with many historical documents, photographs, anecdotes and newspaper clippings that make clear the importance and influence of the Dutch movement.
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