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ja*ascript must be enabled to use this website. To main content. CHIHULY - SENSATIONAL CREATIONS OF THE WORLD FAMOUS AMERICAN ARTIST DALE CHIHULY. This half mask of pottery was found in the settlement Middelstum-Boerdamsterweg and dates from around 500 BC. It is hollow at the rear and has a small piercing at the edge, apparently a hole for a cord. What it was used for is unknown. It was found near a cattle-bone, and perhaps it was once hanging on a pole to scare away evil spirits, or was it a sacrifice to propitiate gods. For the residents of the settlement, the well-being of their livestock was of vital importance. In the northern Dutch coastal area, sporadic images of faces have been found from this period, for example on clay dolls, Jeff Koons aroused indignation in the eighties with his provocative 'kitsch'. Some in the art world saw him as a devil, while he continued to present himself immeasurably as a smiling angel. The only thing he wanted to say was to give people back what they really like the most inside: luxurious, shiny surfaces, sweet colors, sweet and sentimental images. For this mirror he used a fragment of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci (Anna te Drieën, 1510, in the Louvre). With some difficulty here you can recognize the outlines of the Christ child playing with a lamb. The gilded wooden frame refers to the late eighte*nth-century, lush Rococo. Koons plays a confusing game on the cutting edge A boy looks at a bubble that floats close to his face. The bubble was seen in sevente*nth-century painting as a symbol of transience, but that meaning does not seem to be the case in this charming scene. The sober, intimate painting was made by Michael Sweerts, of whom about twelve of these silent portraits of young people have been preserved. Some