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:
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
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