A square in Agiassos
Saturday, 30 June 2012
Miracles happening
Sometimes, a little miracle happens, because there I was, on a glorious Sunday morning, just in the nick of time, waiting for the doors to open, just about to see an exhibition by a true master of painting.
Lucien Freud at the National Portrait Gallery, London
from 9 February -27 May
By the way, isn't this photo...
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the distant cousin of this painting?
Mariano Fortuny, Viejo desnudo al sol, 1873, El Prado Museum
Lucien Freud photo by David Dawson is from hyperallergic.com
Saturday, 23 June 2012
Pottery and crafts at Skala Sykamia
Visit Greece. I don't know about wealth, but I know that the richness of this country is endless
Buying and selling according to Khalil Gibran
And a merchant said, speak to us of buying and selling.
And he answered and said:
To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.
It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
When in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices, -
Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value.
And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour.
To such men you should say,
"Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net;
For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."
And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, - buy of their gifts also.
For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.
And before you leave the marketplace, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.
For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satisfied.
Khalil Gibran
April quiz results, at last
...and so the lady was sitting peacefully in the middle of the Allegory of April, Triumph of Venus painted by Francesco del Cossa some time around 1470.
This fresco is at the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara, Italy.
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