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5 Powerful Quotes About Wisdom To Help You Through Life. By Dr Linda Berman.

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Post date March 7, 2023
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I have to say with regard to Rilke and Proust both brilliant writers well worth reading but unfortunately not exactly happy bunnies!

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Heart – Peter Max. Wikioo

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Charles Dickens

Dickens’ words are eternally relevant, in that they remind us of that fact that wisdom is very close to love. Why is this?

There needs to be a large presence of wisdom when we love, in order for us to have a constructive relationship. Lack of wisdom, making the wrong decisions or being unkind, will spoil a relationship. Love is about understanding another person, and we need to be wise in order to do that.

With wisdom and love, we will have balance in our lives- the balance between thought and feeling. This means that our emotions will be checked and controlled by our wisdom, so that we do not ruin our lives and relationships.

Having ‘a loving heart’ means that we will be kind, caring and thoughtful. Those are wise things to be…

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Art review: Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017)

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Post date March 5, 2023
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These look astonishing- love the vivid colours!!

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“I am interested in every tangle of thread and rope and every possibility of transformation … I am not interested in the practical usefulness of my work”

Magdalena Abakanowicz’s woven installations have been on display at Tate Modern since November, and the exhibition runs until May. I’ve seen the exhibition three times over the past month: once dropping in to a private view with my membership after a slightly boozy work do nearby, then again on a day doing the galleries with my mum, and finally with my son and daughter during half term, a day out that also fulfilled a GCSE art homework requirement. I’m definitely getting my money’s worth from the membership at the moment.

Abakanowicz was born into an aristocratic Tatar family, but her family exited the war in much weakened position. Nevertheless, and despite the strictures of communism, living and working after the War in Poland…

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Wedding (1567)

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Post date March 4, 2023
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, *Peasant Wedding,* oil on panel, 114 x 164 cm, Painted in 1567, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Peasant Wedding at wikiwand

The Peasant Wedding at Google Arts and Culture

If, like me, you can’t keep all these Brueghels straight, go to Brueghel Family Tree

Thanks for Visiting 🙂

~Sunnyside

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Willard Leroy Metcalf: Unfolding Buds (1909)

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Post date March 2, 2023
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A rite of Spring!

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Willard Leroy Metcalf (American, 1858-1925), *Unfolding Buds* (1909), Oil on canvas, Unframed: 26 × 29 inches (66 × 73.7 cm), Detroit Institute of Art

“Unfolding Buds” by Willard Metcalf. This painting hangs at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Willard Leroy Metcalf at Florence Griswold Museum

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Willard Leroy Metcalf at Christie’s

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Willard Leroy Metcalf at Art Renewal Center

Thanks for Visiting 🙂

~Sunnyside

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Mapping Out Jacobean Britain: John Speed’s ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain’

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Post date March 1, 2023
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Interesting how the theatre becomes a metaphor for the political domain. Superb images here!

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In a two part post Joseph Massey, Team Assistant, explores how the concept of ‘Great Britain’ hugely intrigued Jacobean cartographers, historians, poets and playwrights.

When James VI, King of Scots, ascended to the English throne as James I, his succession resulted in the Union of the Crowns as England and Scotland now shared a monarch. However, they remained independent kingdoms because the English and Scottish parliaments refused to legislate a formal union. Despite this on 20 October 1604, James declared himself ‘King of Great Britain’—though in reality England and Scotland remained separate countries until 1707.

black and white drawing of James VI & I of England and Scotland standing — James VI & I as shown on the map of Scotland in Speed’s ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain’ (1611-1612). Whitaker Collection 9 Fol., Image credit Leeds University Library.

Many people asked what was Great Britain? What did it mean to be British? Had Great Britain already existed in the distant…

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Jacques-Louis David: The Death of Socrates, Part I

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Post date March 1, 2023
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Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (1787), Oil on canvas, 129.5 × 196.2 cm (51.0 × 77.2 in). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

“In this landmark of Neoclassical painting from the years immediately preceding the French Revolution, David took up a classical story of resisting unjust authority in a sparse, frieze-like composition. The Greek philosopher Socrates (469–399 B.C.) was convicted of impiety by the Athenian courts; rather than renounce his beliefs, he died willingly, discoursing on the immortality of the soul before drinking poisonous hemlock.”
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Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

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Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates,” in Smarthistory, October 26, 2022, accessed January 30, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/jacques-louis-david-the-death-of-socrates/.

Jacques-Louis David at…

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Pier

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Post date March 1, 2023
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Dame Mitsuko Uchida: Mozart Sonatas

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Post date February 27, 2023
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Amazing!

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KAZUO SHIRAGA (1924-2008), *Emerald*, signé en japonais (en bas à droite); inscrit en japonais et porte un cachet (au dos) encre, aquarelle et gouache sur carton, 27 x 24 cm. (10 5/8 x 9½ in.), Image Source: Christie’s

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Many thanks to Friedrich Zettl for introducing me to this video in his post Project in the home straight – almost.

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Siblings by Brigitte Reimann (tr. Lucy Jones)

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Post date February 26, 2023
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Sounds a really interesting read and still highly relevant to understanding German attitudes today.

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Described by the publishers as ‘a ground-breaking classic of post-war German literature’, Siblings is the first of Brigitte Reimann’s novels to be translated into English, and what an interesting rediscovery it is – bold, edgy and evocative with a style all of its own! Originally published in Germany in 1963, the novel is narrated by Elisabeth Arendt, a young, idealistic painter whose steadfast beliefs in the possibility of building an egalitarian socialist future in the GDR bring her into conflict with her beloved older brother, Uli, a disillusioned engineer.

Set in 1960, before the construction of the Berlin Wall, the novel is bookended by snippets from the same conservation between the siblings, giving the narrative a circular feel. While Elisabeth is determined to fashion a fulfilling life for herself in the East, Uli feels constrained by the Party structures and ways of working, fuelling his desire to defect to the…

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