In the garden of beasts
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Today during my weekly excercise in the central park of Berlin, our Tiergarten (literally "animal garden" or "garden of beasts") where I go jogging 2 or 3 times a week I met a young lady which was creating an outdoor oil painting of the park. She had numerous colorful paint brushes and an easel which she was using to create a beautiful image of the surrounding nature. The park is in the center of the city and has a long history, from the time of Napoleon to Hitler [1]. Napoleon's original hat is in the German historical museum a few km apart, and the German president resides here too, but this young lady chose to paint nature. Every time I came across, usually I do 3 rounds of about 3 km, she had finished another part of the painting. I like this raw creativity, and no matter how far our technology advances [2], this kind of manual art and raw creativity will always have a certain appeal to humans. We have for instance a startup called "ArtNight" in Berlin which organizes events where people can learn how to paint like "Van Gogh" or how to create a sunset image https://www.artnight.com/berlin/ -J. [1] "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik Larson [2] "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" by Walter Benjamin -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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I have been struck by some of the photos of the protests around the country (and the world). In a lot of them there are large murals on the sides of buildings with pretty good renderings of George Floyd. These have gone up in a matter of days, and artists are quite good. Long live the fumes of linseed oil! On 3 Jun 2020, at 14:24, Jochen Fromm wrote:
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Jochen, Barry,
I would love to learn to oil paint well. Sometimes, when I am feeling very ambitious I will sit with acrylics. Other times, color pencils and a nice drafting pen. Before the pandemic hit, St. John's College was offering an open-to-the-public weekly life drawing class that would have been fun to join. Last week, I sat at the train depot and spent an hour drafting the Gross, Kelly and Company Warehouse. Exercises like this are so perfect during the pandemic. My love of Isaac Hamilton Rapp's and John Meem's architecture only deepens. Long live the fumes of linseed oil! Jon -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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The Gross, Kelly and Company Warehouse was designed by the earlier Isaac Hamilton Rapp. Rapp's ideas evolved by the inheritance, imitation and spreading of Meem's ;-p -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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Stephen,
You will notice my correction on the thread above. Unfortunately, the edit was not included in the emailed newsletter. Jon -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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ps. Also, I barely have a sense of humor. It took me two hours to catch the
pun, even with the emoji. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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