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Karel Teige-Eve 1947
A leading theoretician and proponent of the Czech avant-garde during the very active decades of the 1920’s and 30’s, Karel Teige was involved in Devětsil and was a co-founder of the Czech Surrealist Group along with Toyen,JindřichŠtyrský and Vítězslav Nezval.
Teige created over 300 collages in private during the last two decades of his life, frequently featuring elements of a female figure forming part of the landscape. Subject to a brutal smear campaign and constant vilification, Teige was hounded to an early death by the Stalinist controlled governmentin 1951. Even this didn’t satisfy the authorities who ransacked his house, destroyed suspect unpublished writings and continued to suppress his published writings for decades to come. These factors probably contributed to the suicides of both his wife and mistress shortly afterwards.
The collages only came to light after samizdat surrealist publications ended up in Germany during the…
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The Old Woman in the Wood
The Old Woman in the Wood also included in Little brother & little sister and other tales by the Brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilheim Grimm) Fairy tales published 1812-1858.
A poor servant-girl was once travelling with the family with which she was in service, through a great forest, and when they were in the midst of it, robbers came out of the thicket, and murdered all they found. All perished together except the girl, who had jumped out of the carriage in a fright, and hidden herself behind a tree. When the robbers had gone away with their booty, she came out and beheld the great disaster. Then she began to weep bitterly, and said, “What can a poor girl like me do now? I do not know how to get out of the forest, no human being lives in it, so I must certainly starve.” She walked about and…
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Heart of the beach
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as the warm
water soaks, permeates
saturating, moistening the life
snuggling deep
inside the little shells
lying on a bed of shifting sands
i take them
in the palm of my hand
marveling at their virgin beauty..
Riddu Riđđu
Sámi indigenous people of Northen Scandinavia celebrate Riddu Riđđu Festivàla (small storm On the coast festival) since 1991, each year it is celebrated in July to honour Sámi music, art and culture and other indigenous people.
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*Wood cut by Emma Edwall 1800s
Cinco De Mayo
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Today, May 5th marks the victory of the Mexican people over Napoleon the 111’s army.
The 1862 battle was fought at Pueblo Mexico. This battle united the Mexican people after many years fighting for their independence.
Today Cinco De Mayo is celebrated in Mexican culture with parades, music and festivals.
Hayes-Bautista, David E.El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition(University of California Press; 2012)
Above Photo of Mexican folk dancers in Public Domain
The thin crows
StandardLeonardo da Vinci portrait marks 500th anniversary of his death
StandardThat’s of course, the title of the BBC article about the Genius of the all centuries. But as we actually know; He is standing still there, all the time, to make us wondering again and again about his ability and curiosity to find the answers to “all” questions.
First, after many thanks to luisa zambrotta https://wordsmusicandstories.wordpress.com/
to mention this memorandum though, Leonardo da Vinci is not just an Italian but one part of the human beings,,, (if it’s so, should we be proud of it? Anyway, I hope we’ve deserved it), somehow, he belongs to the very special.
As I remember, in the early 70’s we’ve watched a TV serials on Persian TV: The Life of Leonardo da Vinci. As I remember with a wonderful soundtrack.
It was a fantastic production as BBC had often those days. (I was lucky also to see a many made of, from the Charles Dickens books)
And the other one was a very nice work too:
Anyway, it doesn’t have to be an advertisement for this English broadcasting but I have enjoyed a lot those days with all these wonderful illustrations.
Here is some “self portraits” plus more: isn’t it amazing this man? ❤ ❤
via: https://www.bbc.com/news/in_pictures
This portrait, newly identified as Leonardo da Vinci, is going on display in London as the world marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the artist and inventor.
Only one other portrait has survived from the artist’s lifetime, aside from self-portraits.
Martin Clayton was researching an exhibition for The Queen’s Gallery in London when he identified the sketch as a study of Leonardo made by an unidentified assistant shortly before the master’s death in 1519.
The only other contemporary image is by his pupil, Francesco Melzi, created around the same time, seen below.
“In the sketch, he is aged about 65 and appears a little melancholy and world-weary. If you compare this sketch with Francesco Melzi’s portrait of Leonardo, you can see strong indications that this too is a depiction of the artist,” says Mr Clayton of the Royal Collection Trust.
“The elegant straight nose, the line of the beard rising diagonally up the cheek to the ear, a ringlet falling from the moustache at the corner of the mouth, and the long wavy hair are all exactly as Melzi showed them in his portrait.
“Leonardo was renowned for his well-kept and luxuriant beard, at a time when relatively few men were bearded – though the beard was rapidly coming into fashion at this time.”
Museums and galleries are marking the Leonardo da Vinci anniversary. Here is a selection of his work, which will go on display in Italy, France and the UK.
At the master’s birthplace, Museo Leonardiano, Vinci, Italy
In the village of Vinci, the Museo Leonardiano is exhibiting the artist’s first known drawing, dated 5 August 1473, seen below.
Entitled Landscape 8P, it was sketched when the artist was 21. The museum describes the image as “a kind of palimpsest for all of Leonardo’s future output”.
The drawing includes a written reference to the Catholic festivity of Santa Maria della Neve (Our Lady of the Snow).
The museum say details in the sketch suggest the setting may be a combination of different places, including the Montalbano mountain ridge and the Valdinievole region in Tuscany.
A high-resolution three-dimensional digital version of the drawing will also be available at the exhibition, allowing visitors to see details not visible to the naked eye.
The sketch will be on display until 26 May and will then return to the Uffizi gallery in Florence.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, Loire Valley, France
A tapestry based on Leonardo’s mural painting The Last Supper will be displayed at the Château du Clos Lucé in France, where he spent the final years of his life, between 1516 and 1519.
It is the first time the tapestry has been been outside the Vatican museum since the 16th Century.
The silk tapestry was woven for Louise of Savoy and her son, the future king of France, Francis I, some time before 1514. The new king invited Leonardo to move to France and much of the artist’s work went with him.
The original mural, seen above, is one of only around 20 paintings Leonardo completed and was commissioned for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, Louvre museum, Paris, France
The Louvre in Paris expects huge demand for its forthcoming Leonardo da Vinci exhibition this October, urging visitors to book a time slot ahead of their visit.
The museum holds the largest collection of his paintings, the best known of them being the Mona Lisa, seen above.
The gallery says the new exhibition will be the culmination of more than 10 years of work, including scientific examinations of the paintings.
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
Until 6 May, 144 of Leonardo’s drawings are on display in 12 simultaneous exhibitions across the UK in venues including Belfast, Cardiff and Glasgow.
The exhibitions are collectively called Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing.
From 24 May to 13 October, a single exhibition will open in The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, featuring 200 drawings, before moving to The Queen’s Gallery in Edinburgh.
The drawings on display include The head of Leda in lack chalk, pen and ink (above) and A man tricked by Gypsies (from 1493, below).
Da Vinci has been regarded primarily as an artist, but the thousands of pages that survived from his notebooks show his diverse interests and achievements, including work on geology, anatomy, flight, gravity and optics.
He is often credited with coming up with concepts for the bicycle, aeroplane, helicopter, and parachute some 500 years ahead of their time.
Da Vinci produced ground-breaking work as an anatomist by dissecting 30 human corpses, which he studied in order to paint the human form more accurately.
The notes that accompany much of his work were written left-handed in mirror scripts.
Burnout!
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Yes! This word is getting more and more familiar to me nowadays.
At first, I wanted to thank you all my adorable and honourable friends for your kindness and generosity to let me feel at home to open my heart once more for you.
I’m almost a newcomer here but unfortunately, I am probably spending the last quartal of my life session though, I wished I’d be a young newcomer with a great ambitions with a bright look at my future.
That’s just because I lived my life mostly to present my brother for his success in his life; become a famous writer as he, in his whole almost short life, could and wanted to be. You know; to be a body for this soul. I might decide to do it just like my mother, she did it for my father from the beginning of their marriage till father’s death. that’s another story which I’ll write it down one day.
Of course, I have to mention that I, also have some talents in arts as I’ve tried sometimes; in the music and in the theatres, and the effects were not disappointing. To point it out here; my brother’s wished also to see me succeed in.
But for me, it was clear if I’d dive deeply too into the world of arts, we might both get lost without any success.
Anyhow, our fate wasn’t so fair and my effort to show the world his genius talent failed, he left this planet and I had to discover myself again as a newborn child, digging the oppressed talents and wishes, but to find out that it isn’t so easy. Let’s back to my condition with the symptom “Burnout”
After this short announcement above, I try to explain why I feel it so; as I keep working in the week the job which I just do it financially, I try to clean my soul at the weekend by actuating my inner spirit. But lately, I felt it’s getting too much!! It is at first because of my interests to several objects like; Archaeology(Egyptology), Psychology, Philosophy, Social Politics (I worked as a political journalist once in Iran) and for all these, I have only time in the weekends. on the other side, I try not to miss anything in through the weeks as I doing my job, by looking permanently on my poor Smartphone (Smallphone!! 😀 ) and you can’t imagine how big is the difference between these two worlds; the job which I earn money by it and there is no need for any talent or creativity, and the lovely work which I do on the weekends. they are two different worlds. There I noticed by the way, that I’m getting confused. You know; forgetting this or mix-up that and making mistakes. I am not the youngest one who I once was anymore, you know? Therefore, I decided to reduce the themes at the weekend, it is a pity but the only chance not to lose my mind! I’d rather reduce the job in the week but
unfortunately, I can’t because of the financial situation. the only hope is my retirement that will be in the next year and if I stay alive, I will surely work on my lovely part more.
At the end, I just wanna say that it is very nice and calming for me to open my heart and share my thoughts with you dear friends, you’re much appreciated and wishing you all the best. ❤ ❤
If I am quiet
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