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More Than Meets The I: Love defies Death in Art: the paradigm of Marc Chagall
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Monday, 8 November 2010. Love defies Death in Art: the paradigm of Marc Chagall. The Firebird" Marc Chagall 1949. Chagall's pure and unconditional love for his first wife, Bella Rosenfeld (who died suddenly in 1944) haunts his earlier and part of his later art. I love his extraordinary use of colour and the loss of gravity that prevails in his work. It is this dream-like quality of art that compensates for frustration in everyday life. More Than Meets the I. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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More Than Meets The I: January 2011
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Thursday, 13 January 2011. I am horribly limited. What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. From Sylvia Plath's The Unabridged Journals.
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More Than Meets The I: Poetry has its roots in human breath/ Georgios Seferis
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Friday, 1 April 2011. Poetry has its roots in human breath/ Georgios Seferis. I am celebrating World Poetry Day a bit late here in my blog, but actually every day is poetry day for me. I chose to share not a poem but a speech on poetry by our Nobel winning poet Georgios Seferis. It is one of those readings that shape your mind and you are never quite the same again. Giorgos Seferis' speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1963. Write Your Message on the Sand. So little has...
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More Than Meets The I
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Wednesday, 3 November 2010. The Breeze in the Almond Tree: Kazantzakis and van Gogh. We are at the heart of autumn, rich yellow and rust tones prevailing. Notwithstanding the season, there's always something vaguely metaphysical -a springtime breeze takes me over- when I come across such beauty:. When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed, 'what insolence! Nikos Kazantzakis Saint Francis (1962). The Speech o...
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More Than Meets The I
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Sunday, 7 November 2010. The Speech of Silence in Gibran and Rothko. Speech is not the only means of understanding between two souls. It is not the syllables that come from the lips and tongues that bring hearts together. There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Kahlil Gibran: Broken Wings. Interestingly, Rothko's art is not at all about horizontal stripes of colour. To my mind, there is something purely esoteric in his choice and interaction of colours that captures the soul ...
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Prufrock's Dilemma: February 2012
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Do I dare disturb the universe? Prufrock's Presents Just For Us. More Fine Listening at Prufrock's. Friday, February 24, 2012. Wisława Szymborska and Horst Beckmann’s Hat. In yet another alarming gap in my cultural education, I’d not heard of Wisława Szymborska until Friko’s Poetry and Pictures. Introduced a poem of hers to me. The poem was The Joy of Writing. Posted by Susan Scheid. Friday, February 17, 2012. The woods are a tangle of brown and gray. Posted by Susan Scheid. Thursday, February 9, 2012.
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Friko's World: Wishlist
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Wednesday, 10 June 2015. It’s summer, it’s June and therefore double birthday month at Castle Moat. A pair of Geminis for those who attach importance to such matters. 8220;So, what do you want for your birthday? Anything you can think of? 8220;Hm, what about you? Is there something you’d really like? Gardening and dog walking demand jeans and a fleece to cover the t-shirt. The dressing table came when we hit on the idea of joint presents, after all, our birthdays are within two days of each other. A ...
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Friko's World: Black Clouds - Delirium minus Tremens
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Black Clouds - Delirium minus Tremens. Sorry for being away for so long without an explanation. Do you know the feeling of holding your breath in fear and trepidation? For days on end? Beloved not quite, but almost out of the blue, became very ill with Delirium. 8220;Oh fine”, she said, “let’s stop one of them and see if that makes any difference.” Surely she must have realised that I was describing the symptoms of Delirium? Wish us luck for tomorrow. 24 June 2015 at 19:45. I ask...
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Friko's World: Not there yet
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Saturday, 27 June 2015. But just to get away from the sickroom I watched Paul weed the rhubarb bed. And afterwards he went to the shop for some bread and milk for us. I think I have found another treasure even if he can neither work as hard nor as fast as Old Gardener. Life is utterly boring now, I am not a terribly graceful nurse; besides, I am exhausted. But needs must and I do so want my dear Beloved back that I spare no effort to this end. 27 June 2015 at 18:31. 27 June 2015 at 18:59. I probably cant...
