Si tu as 30 ans et que d’un seul coup tu te dis que ta vie est fichue car tu n’as pas encore trouvé la femme de ta vie… Voici quelques lignes qui pourront te dire si tu es déjà dans la zone du syndrome Ted Mosby:
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Übriggebliebenens vom Stamm des Tannenbaums eignete sich gut, florale Linien darzustellen.
Holzstückchen als Inspirationsquelle (c) Foto von Susanne Haun
Ich werde die kleine Stückchen aufheben – sie eignen sich gut als Anregung für Bäume für meinen Workshop “Reale und surreale Welten mit Tusche, Aquarell und Pastellstiften zeichnen” bei Boesner in Berlin Marienfelde (siehe hier).
Diese kleine Bruchstücke des Baumes stehen stellvertretend für den ganzen Baum, den ich mir auf meinen Zeichentisch hole, Stücke, die meine Phantasie inspiriert.
Raschdorff’s Berliner Dom around 1905 (source unknown).
Berliner Dom, designed by Julius Raschdorff and consecrated #OTD – February 27 – 1905 in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife, Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria.
The 98-metre high church, which at the same time is the tallest religious building in Berlin, felt like the #BER of its time: it took 11 years to build but even longer to decide HOW to build it. The 1867 architectural contest attended by 51 architects brought no winner.
It wasn’t until 1888 that a special committee finally decided on Julius Raschdorff’s design. It was a re-adjusted version of Raschdorff’s 1885 plans, which – like many others – failed to impress the decision-makers. The altered version came to be known as the “Twenty-Million-Project” (which tells you something about the cost of the enterprise).
This was not, however, the end of re-adjustments: in 1891 before finally giving…
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The disgusting abuse of Jeremy Corbyn by the immature young man who has been give the grave responsibility of running Britain’s defence is beyond redemption.
I am a Tory. I’m no longer a member of the Conservative Party and after 40 years of voting for it I shall never do so again until it turns away from its authoritarian and illiberal path. But I am a true Tory instead of the fake that inhabits 10, Downing Street and her sycophants and hangers on.
Similar smears about Corbyn’s efforts in talking to the IRA and Hamas by other Conservative politicians are also beneath contempt. If our senior politicians aren’t doing all they can to reach out to such organisations in peaceful dialogue then they are irresponsible. However, that the Defence Secretary demeans himself and his office with such puerile conduct requires firm action. It is horrifying that this idiot has our…
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These are the fascinating cities which were the centres of an era of culture which we can read about in novels-as also in Austria, Ukraine and Hungary.
Love the red ink flower sketches!
Es ist viel anstrengender für Projekte zu arbeiten als nur für mich selber zu zeichnen, deshalb sind Projekte immer wieder eine neue Herausforderung für mich.
Nichtsdestotrotz ist es schön, nur von Farbe und Komposition geleitet die Feder über das Papier gleiten zu lassen. Die Blog- und Projektpause um den Jahreswechsel habe ich für kleine Zeichnungen ohne großen Aufbauaufwand genutzt. Es entstanden Blätter, wie ich sie in meinem Buch “Mit Tusche zeichnen und kolorieren” (siehe hier) oder “Die Farbe in der Zeichnung” (siehe hier) präsentiere.
The Headlines:
Dresden in 1900.
Vaslav Nijinsky (1899-1950) in “L’après-midi d’un faune”, 1912.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, 1907.
Russian Tsar building, Belgrade.
Bengali painter. He got the break through in 1944 with his Famine Series paintings of 1943. After partition he moved to Pakistan; and finally when Bangladesh was created in 1971, he was rightly considered by Syed Manzoorul Islam as the founding father of Bangladeshi modern art
Under Benito’s Hat –King’s Cross
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The trains depart for Letchworth, Edinburgh and Peterborough
-looks like you might have to change at Letchworth
For a bus; two lectures at J.B.W.
and we have been in Paris between ’38 and 1942 and maybe a little after too
A terrible time for both Jews and for women; the Wehrmacht collection point is in the
Gendarmarie-left for two days without bread, without water or any other facilities.
Men wearing yellow stars –
Having to give proof of gentile forbears for five generations
Paris-an island of compromise and collaboration.
Escapees conveyed by passeurs, some notably brave
-others giving away the Jewish escapees –for a few pieces of silver.
There and then the world of Louis Malle, his Au Revoir les Enfants, Irène Némirovsky and Coco Chanel,
who it seems survived quite well between the satin sheets with her German officer.
Afterwards the rough justice – hair shaved off and ten years of “National humiliation”.
According to De Gaulle, who was the French state-only a small- a very small number collaborated
as he disarmed the communist resistance, told them to return to being
bakers, butchers and the rest……
“What language do we dream in?” asks the writer in the next session
“Security officers tour this station twenty-four hours a day”
Born in Russia-life begins amongst dark cherry trees-there are two names for cherry trees in Russian.
Still today she recalls the deep, dusky black variety that tastes like velvet to her tongue
And she recalls in the background, that relation who was tall and wispy in a light-yellow dress,
Willowy to the eye of this two-and-a-half-year-old child.
Then to Prague where she learns Czech with its subtle ability to carry shades of irony.
Later to Hamburg where she adds German to her vocabulary …. then it is another speaker’s turn
whose voice seems gentle talking about the pains of exile, the stranger’s distanced view and
The slip between the idea conceived in the brain and the words which later
reach the tongue.
She talks of Istanbul and night time – of a transvestite in her
shimmering dress holding one shoe-a broken high heel-
wearing the other and cursing loudly walking up
the cobbled hill at midnight. Cursing men and the
society unable to accept differences.
“This is a security announcement………or text…….”
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