We have a soul at times.
No one's got it non-stop,
for keeps.
Day after day,
year after year
may pass without it.
Marc Chagall | Deux tetes
Mahatma Gandhi: "Occhio per occhio ed il mondo diventa cieco"!
• Sii il cambiamento che vuoi vedere nel mondo.
• Be the change you wish to see in the world.
• Occhio per occhio e il mondo diventa cieco.
• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
• Le pagine della storia del mondo sono tutte lordate dai sanguinosi racconti delle guerre di religione. Solo con la purezza e le buone azioni dei seguaci si può difendere la religione, mai con la contrapposizione a chi professa altre fedi.
Igor Zenin
Happy Birthday Renoir! Was born in February 25 - 181 years ago!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir born in February 25, 181 years ago in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France who was the leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
After years as a struggling painter, Renoir helped launch an artistic movement called Impressionism in 1870s.
Unlike most artists Renoir painted quickly - some of his work took only half an hour.
He eventually became one of the most highly regarded artists of his time. He died in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, in 1919.
Julie Delance-Feurgard (1859-1892)
Julie Delance-Feurgard was a student at the Académie Julian, where she became close friends with fellow artist Louise Breslau, who painted a portrait of her (now at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne in Switzerland).
She exhibited at the Salon between 1880-1888, earning honorable mentions for her work there and at the 1889 Exposition Universelle.
Her work received positive attention from critics. She married one of her teachers, Paul-Louis Delance, in 1886, and continued her career, which was cut short by her untimely death in 1892. | Source: © The Clark Art Institute
Orazio Borgianni | Baroque painter
Orazio Borgianni (6 April 1574 - 14 January 1616) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. He was the stepbrother of the sculptor and architect Giulio Lasso.
Borgianni was born in Rome, where he was documented in February 1604. He was instructed in the art of painting by his brother, Giulio Borgianni, called Scalzo.
The patronage by Philip II of Spain induced him to visit Spain, where he signed an inventory in January 1605.
He returned to Rome from Spain after April 1605 at the height of his career, and most of the work of his maturity was carried out 1605–16.
Legge di Murphy: "Non discutere mai con un idiota: la gente potrebbe non notare la differenza"!
Della Comitatologia | Capitolo Settimo
Legge di Old e Kahn
• L'efficienza di un comitato è inversamente proporzionale
al numero dei partecipanti e al tempo impiegato per raggiungere le decisioni.
Legge diShanahan
• La durata di una riunione aumenta col quadrato del numero dei presenti.
Legge dell'insignificanza
• Il tempo speso per ogni punto dell'ordine del giorno è sempre inversamente proporzionale
alla somma di denaro che il punto comporta.
Rene Magritte | The Art of Conversation, 1963
Édouard Manet | The Railway / La Ferrovia, 1873
With her back to us, a young girl stands looking through a fence. Facing us directly, a woman sits with a small dog in her lap and a book in her hand.
Billowing steam from an unseen train obscures the center background, but the edge of a bridge juts out at right, identifying the setting as Gare Saint-Lazare - Paris’ busiest train station and emblem of the city’s unsettling 19th-century makeover. Beyond depicting the modern city, The Railway disturbingly suggests how people experienced it.
Pinned against a long black iron fence, these fashionably dressed female figures are physically cut off from the railroad beyond and also seem estranged from each other: facing in opposite directions, they are absorbed in their individual activities. Manet offers us no clues to their relationship, even as we viewers seem to interrupt the woman reading.
She looks up at us directly with an expression that is neutral and guarded - the characteristic regard of one stranger encountering another in the modern metropolis.
Frédéric Chopin: "Play Mozart in memory of me!"
Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano.
He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".
All of Chopin's compositions include the piano.
Most are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some 19 songs set to Polish lyrics.
His piano writing was technically demanding and expanded the limits of the instrument, his own performances noted for their nuance and sensitivity.
His major piano works also include mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, the instrumental ballade (which Chopin created as an instrumental genre), études, impromptus, scherzos, preludes, and sonatas, some published only posthumously.
Maria Wodzińska | Portrait of Frédéric Chopin, 1836 | National Museum Warsaw
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