With a couple of scarves and a bit of time we may even get to make a similar one for ourselves!
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Sunday, 20 November 2011
Today I love
With a couple of scarves and a bit of time we may even get to make a similar one for ourselves!
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Reflection of the day
Tommaso Minardi, self portrait 1813
Carl Spitzweg, The poor poet
...is not the same as poverty in life.
Definitely, art is not life.
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...for in politics as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. An yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion.
A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their oppinions and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives.
Spain's election campaing 2011? No, Alexander Hamilton in "The Federalist"
In praise of shadows
"Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty"
Would there be any beauty in this blog if it did not hide so many things from everyday life? Don't we have to forget about injustice to enjoy any form of art?
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You can read it online at this pdf link from NY's School of Visual Arts
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Also from the Near East
This video is so funny and playful. Meet Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram.
The arrow shouldn't appear on her nose though.
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Skying
I didn't know I was keeping a tradition alive
The tint twice over in the plain part, and once in the clouds
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1. Turner
2. Constable
3 & 4 Alexander Cozens
5&6 Turner's sketchbooks
@ Tate Britain , except Constable @ V&A
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
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