A touching message I just dug out to read... Thanks again,Josney for so many diversified messages from your fingertips!;)
Where's the quote from? 'Friends are kisses blown to us by Angels.' It sounds so poetic... Nice day to you and us all at ELC! Claire On Jul 8, 4:26 pm, Josney Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not only a painting , a very touching story. > > <http://i25.tinypic.com/mljymr.jpg> > The paintings you see in this post might seem not be worth. The thing can > make us look more closely at them is the story of the artist who brought > them to life. > > What makes them special is that this person is… blind. > > He was not blind from the birth. He lost his sight during a digging > operation in the forests of Ukraine, where they tried to find remains of > Russian soldiers who are considered to be missing since the World War 2. He > got blew up on the 50 year old German Nazi land mine and since then he > couldn’t see with the both of his eyes. > > Before this accident he had already some recognition among the local artist > community and his works didn’t look like those later ones. > > Then when he lost sight he lost everything. He became a disabled person whom > nobody needed or cared about. He was in deep depression, and once he has got > a call from his old friend, who tried to support the artist and offered to > conduct an public exhibition of his old works. Of course he agreed. Then > they had some time before the exhibition and Dmitri - that is the name of > our hero - decided to try to draw something again to present at the ongoing > exhibition, to show the world that he is still an artist, even with a > missing sight. He called it “Even the longest way starts with a tiny step.” > At first he couldn’t draw anything that reminded the sane painting. But > after hours of practice and persistence he managed to give a birth to his > first painting of his new life. Now there are 250 new works, created after > the accident in which he lost his sight, and some of them are highly > recognized by critics and were bought for private collections of Russian and > foreign art lovers. > > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/r_e_a_c_h_o_u_t/join> > Dmitri, the blind artist. > <http://i26.tinypic.com/33blbpl.jpg> > > “When I see the works of Dmitri, I became ashamed of ourselves, how often do > we complain, how often we say that life is not fair with us, and still we > can see the world around us. But Dmitri can’t, and still he doesn’t > complain, he works. Every his painting is a piece of the world he knew, he > knows and he would know. We, professionals from art, don’t care that he > can’t see - he still remains a professional artist for us. Of course, his > style has been changed, but still he is a good colorist and stylist and we > don’t make any discounts on his wound, when saying this.”, says Valentina > Myzgina, the chief manager of Kharkov Art Museum. > " Friends are kisses blown to us by Angles."** --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
