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BlogShare: Her Country Was Art – The Amazing Worlds and Life of Leonora Carrington
Elegant Mystery has shared several images of Leonora Carrington’s surrealist artwork, and the short documentary film about this amazing woman’s life.
What a wonderful, inspired, and deeply moving story!
Leonora Carrington’s story gives one example of what happens when a gifted imagination and artistry that’s ahead of its time meets the straight edges and mores of Victorian and early Industrialist worldviews and stringent expectations.
Her story also explores themes of home and exile, feeling like one doesn’t ‘fit in’, and shows the power of finding one’s tribe and kindreds, love and friendship, and a community that embraces and celebrates unusual gifts … and unusual people.
See the Elegant Mystery post here. (Thank you for sharing this!)
And find the short documentary film — rich with the wonderful surrealist paintings and a truly amazing story – here:
It’s well worth watching.
Big Love,
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Because tonight I am weak
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Satellites of eyes orbit my dreams, cellophane specters inhabit this space of detachment. Here tongues are no longer foreign and truth is the language I hold to my lips. Without fear my mind dances gently into the compulsory night that folds into hours of illusion.
My mind slips slowly
into the subtle night that
folds softly into hours.
These veiled eyes close in the
hollow silence,
this holy sanctuary of solitude
where there is no fear
of battle.
Melancholy is my sentry.
Follow us into
my chasm of insecurities,
I will not turn away
because tonight I am weak.
art by Lu Jianjun
Guest Post: Achilles’ Violent Shouting by Tom Hillman
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Berlin Decadence
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Otto Dix-Metropolis-1927-1928 In 1937 the reigning National Socialist party held an exhibition of Degenerate Art (Die Ausstellung “Entartete Kunst) in the Institute of Archaeology in the Hofgarten Munich, featuring Modernist, Expressionist, Dada and New Objectivity work by Grosz, Nolde, Klee, Ernst, Schwitters and others considered decadent by the regime. It was a huge success attracting over a million visitors in its first six weeks before going on tour nationally. Considerably less successful was the concurrent exhibition of Great German Art (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) of approved Nazi art that was meant to serve as a contrast and counterpoint to the Degenerate Art. Even Hitler and Goebbels, failed artist and novelist respectively, thought the works on display at the Great German Art Exhibition were weak, however puerility has never got in the way of good propaganda and it allowed Hitler to rail against cultural disintegration and declare war on the…
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Giovanni Lanfranco (1582 – 1647, Italian)
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Joseph And Potiphar’s Wife
Young Man Naked On The Bed With A Cat
St. Peter Healing St.Agatha In Prison
St. Peter Healing St. Agatha (detail)
Cleopatra’s Death
Mary Magdalene Raised By Angels
Venus Playing The Harp
Sleeping Venus With Two Putti In A Landscape
Ruggero Rescuing Angelica
Rinaldo’s Farewell To Armida
Rinaldo’s Farewell To Armida (detail)
Norandino And Lucina Discovered By The Ogre
The Rape of Europa
Venus With Putti
The Phoenix
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Opening Our Hearts Through Armenian Dance by Laura Shannon
The candle represents the light of love, compassion and connection kindled in our hearts as we dance.
In these challenging times, one of the hardest things to do is to keep our hearts open. Grief and despair tend to shut them down. And even among close friends, colleagues, family members, and people with whom we share worship, when we clash over differing political opinions, trust can swiftly erode. These kinds of losses and sorrows can make us just want to close the doors to our hearts.
Yet hardened hearts and minds are not going to help us overcome conflicts and affirm connections. Only if we can open our hearts to one another, holding the fullness of our (and others’) feelings in a compassionate way, can we weather the storms which threaten to divide us further. And only if we are united can we find our way together through those storms.
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