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
imagehttps://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
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