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On Missing Out
An interesting commentary on the incisive and accessible work of Adam Phillips.
Adam Phillips talks about the missing life that we narrate internally. We are missing out on a life we dream about, pinning away for whatever it is we do not have at the moment. Thereby forfeiting the positive experience of the life we have. He subtitled his book: In Praise of the Unlived Life. It is a wonderfully assessable thesis that engages the psychoanalytic devotee in a conversation that is about the inner landscape of human existence. He begins with desire as the source of both satisfaction and frustration.
Being absorbed in the everydayness of existence is the art of life. Being alone with our inner landscape is a process that some enjoy more than others. For some, the everydayness of life ought to be avoided for fear that it will bring about more fear. It has the capacity of madness, and what we know about analysis is that at…
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MARC CHAGALL
Wonderful stuff-I was interested to read of the interaction in Berlin between the poor German speaker, Chagall with the well spoken Max Liebermann.
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FRANZ LENK
Another Neue Sachlichkeit painter who worked in Hegau with Otto Dix.
Es war einmal ein kleines Mädchen, das eine Locke hatte, gerade vorn auf der Stirn. Wenn sie gut war, war sie sehr, sehr gut; aber wenn sie ungezogen war, war sie schrecklich.
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Easiest German – 46. Der Nordwind
I had almost forgotten in English!Thanks!
Der Nordwind bläst, und wir bekommen Schnee; und was wird das arme Rotkehlchen dann tun, das arme Ding? Es wird in der Scheune sitzen, um sich warm zu halten, und den Kopf unter dem Flügel verstecken, das arme Ding!
Der Nordwind bläst, und wir bekommen Schnee; und was wird die Honigbiene tun, das arme Ding? Im Bienenstock wird sie bleiben, bis die Kälte vorbei ist, und dann kommt sie im Frühjahr heraus, das arme Ding!
Der Nordwind bläst und wir bekommen Schnee; und was wird der Winterschläfer dann tun, das arme Ding? In einen Ball zusammengerollt, in seinem Nest, klein und behaglich, schläft er, bis das warme Wetter wiederkehrt, das arme Ding!
Der Nordwind bläst, und wir bekommen Schnee; und was werden die Kinder dann tun, die armen Dinger? Wenn die Aufgaben fertig sind, werden sie springen, hüpfen und laufen; so werden sie sich warm halten, die armen Dinger!
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BERNHARD KRETZSCHMAR
A founder member of the famous Dresden Succession in 1932 and working in a variety of styles especially Neuen Sachlichkeit.
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LASAR SEGALL
Lasar Segall was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania. Segall’s work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism. Not to be confused with Hyman Seal who worked in St Ives,Cornwall.
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GERHARD RICHTER
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KING FRIEDRICH´S POTATOES
Alfred Graff´s portrait of Friedrich II (1781)
Born on this day in 1712 Prussian king Friedrich II went down in history as Friedrich der Große, or Frederick the Great. Many of his deeds were memorable, some of them certainly merit being described as impressive but where does “the Great” in his name really come from?
The answer to this and many other questions about der Alte Fritz (Friedrich II´s common name) – some of them you did not even know you actually had – can be found in a brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast “In Our Time” where the show´s host, Melvyn Bragg, discusses Friedrich´s story with some of the best British experts in the field. Apparently, it was the King himself who ordered Berlin press to refer to him as “der Große” in their reports from the Silesian front: he had the local newspapers and bulletins call him “the…
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