My friend Dave will soon leave for one of his journeys again. This time it will be the Philippines and maybe Vietnam. So we thought it would be nice to get together before he leaves and do something fun, interesting or whatever.
By uncle of Marion, who is deep into art, I was told a while ago that the Cobra museum in the city of Amstelveen is very nice to visit. This museum is dedicated to modern art, especially on avant garde art movement with the same name.
Although I am not very into modern art generally, I open minded and curious So yesterday Dave and I did go there.
Cobra was an avant garde movement that was found on November 8th 1948 in Paris. The name Cobra is based on the cities where the founders came from: Copenhagen – Brussels – Amsterdam. For that reason the name is often written in the modern CamelCase-style: CoBrA.
Although the Cobra-movement didn’t last very long, it influence on nowadays arts has been important. Cobra objected mainly against the established art-styles of this time and created a almost naive, innocent and unskilled/untrained way of displaying art.
I think the most famous name belong to Cobra was Karel Appel.
Cobra covered many ways of arts as poetry, painting and sculptures.
As already said. I am not that deep into this way of modern art. Maybe I am very simplistic, but I want to recognize directly what a piece of art represents. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t want to learn about things as Cobra.
So it was a well spend day. Dave and I enjoyed after our visit to the museum a good dinner on the terrace of Du Monde, which is very close to the museum.
Dave will soon leave for his journey. I hope he will have a great time and am already waiting for stories and pictures!
Ah, so you don’t like all the art in my parents house? I concur!