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This photograph was taken at Upper Seletar Reservoir. There were colourful cloud formations with reflections in the reservoir. The small jetty and boats in the foreground provided locational reference for this colourful landscape.
A lady was seen standing next to the jetty admiring the dusk landscape and appeared to be exalting the beautiful moment.
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Studio: Jumis Dreamers
Sitting Paragon: Rusty
Capture: Firestorm
Pre-sets, Editing & Post Processing: Gimp
Lighting: Whims
Background: TT
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The Redhead Down the Hall
~Timothy McGuire~
Magnetic fascination
Provokes intoxication
As I feel deeply compelled
To exalt admiration
From the Redhead
Who lives down the hall
I feel deeply compelled
To be dreaming
Of the redhead
With the creamy white skin
And intoxicating green eyes
Who lives down the hall
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"La primera vez que vio la isla, Marini estaba cortésmente inclinado sobre los asientos de la izquierda, ajustando la mesa de plástico antes de instalar la bandeja del almuerzo. La pasajera lo había mirado varias veces mientras él iba y venía con revistas o vasos de whisky; Marini se demoraba ajustando la mesa, preguntándose aburridamente si valdría la pena responder a la mirada insistente de la pasajera, una americana de las muchas, cuando en el óvalo azul de la ventanilla entró el litoral de la isla, la franja dorada de la playa, las colinas que subían hacia la meseta desolada. Corrigiendo la posición defectuosa del vaso de cerveza, Marini sonrió a la pasajera. «Las islas griegas», dijo. «Oh, yes, Greece», repuso la americana con un falso interés. Sonaba brevemente un timbre y el steward se enderezó sin que la sonrisa profesional se borrara de su boca de labios finos. Empezó a ocuparse de un matrimonio sirio que quería jugo de tomate, pero en la cola del avión se concedió unos segundos para mirar otra vez hacia abajo; la isla era pequeña y solitaria, y el Egeo la rodeaba con un intenso azul que exaltaba la orla de un blanco deslumbrante y como petrificado, que allá abajo sería espuma rompiendo en los arrecifes y las caletas. Marini vio que las playas desiertas corrían hacia el norte y el oeste, lo demás era la montaña entrando a pique en el mar. Una isla rocosa y desierta, aunque la mancha plomiza cerca de la playa del norte podía ser una casa, quizá un grupo de casas primitivas. Empezó a abrir la lata de jugo, y al enderezarse la isla se borró de la ventanilla; no quedó más que el mar, un verde horizonte interminable. Miró su reloj pulsera sin saber por qué; era exactamente mediodía".
Fragmento de La isla a mediodía, de Julio Cortázar.
Mirando desde la ventanilla del avión cuando te acercas a una isla es imposible no acordarse de este maravilloso cuento.
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la saison pluvieuse et morne nous révèle des moments d'une exaltation intense - à nous de saisir le moment!
J'voudrais finir ma vie à Katmandou
C'est bien plus doux de faire des rimes en "ou"
Mais je veux être givré, triplement givré
Swinguer comme les triplettes de Belleville ♫
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Une rencontre inattendue et ô combien exaltante ...
Alors que je roulais au pas, soleil en pleine face, je distingue un rapace posté sur un poteau électrique mais en passant à sa hauteur un truc m'alerte, j'entrevoie du blanc au niveau du cou, je m'arête quelques mètres plus loin et saisi prestement mes jumelles 😮😮😮 P... c'est un Élanion.
Inutile de préciser que mon cœur s'emballe, wow ce qu'il est beau !!!
J’effectue un demi tour un peu plus loin, vise avec mes jumelles, ouf il est toujours là :-) et reviens vers lui tout en douceur, je commence à prendre quelques clichés mais de beaucoup trop loin pour une image acceptable mais petit à petit je me rapproche il ne bronche pas, j'ai la tremblote et bien sûr je foire les premiers déclenchements.
je m'engueule un peu ... Cathie déconne pas, calme toi et respire
Bien évidemment une voiture passe par là et mon bel oiseau s'envole mais se poste sur le poteau suivant.
S'ensuit une merveilleuse demie-heure d'observation ...
Élanion blanc
Elanus caeruleus - Black-winged Kite
L'art aussi est un mouvement qui exalte et nie en même temps. "Aucun artiste ne tolère le réel", dit Nietzsche. Il est vrai ; mais aucun artiste ne peut se passer du réel. La création est exigence d'unité et refus du monde à cause de ce qui lui manque et au nom de ce que, parfois, il est.
L'Homme révolté - Albert Camus
Predica cristiana | ¿Todos los que reciben la salvación de la cruz serán arrebatados por Dios al reino de los cielos?
La cruz era un artefacto de tortura utilizado para la pena capital en tiempos antiguos. Después de que el Señor Jesús, que estaba libre del pecado, se sacrificó como ofrenda por el pecado y fue crucificado por la humanidad, la cruz vino a simbolizar la gracia redentora del Señor Jesús. Cuando recibimos Su salvación y venimos ante el Señor para confesar nuestros pecados y arrepentirnos, nuestros pecados son perdonados. Es decir, el Señor ya no nos ve como pecadores. Como tal, muchos de nuestros hermanos y hermanas creen que recibir la salvación de la cruz significa que ya han sido salvados, lo que significa que ya han sido ganados por Dios y cuando el Señor regrese serán arrebatados directamente al reino de los cielos. Sin embargo, ¿alguien se ha detenido a cuestionar si esta línea de pensamiento está de acuerdo con la palabra del Señor? Es cierto que hemos recibido la salvación de la cruz, pero también es innegable que todavía pecamos a menudo. ¿Realmente las personas como nosotros serán arrebatadas directamente al reino de los cielos cuando el Señor regrese?
Estoy seguro de que muchos de mis hermanos y hermanas han tenido la siguiente experiencia en sus vidas: A pesar de haber recibido la salvación de la cruz y de ser perdonados de nuestros pecados, todavía a menudo pecamos involuntariamente. No importa lo duro que tratemos de abandonar la carne y vencernos a nosotros mismos, todavía nos vemos atrapados en el círculo vicioso del pecado y la confesión y simplemente no podemos liberarnos de los lazos del pecado. Por ejemplo, en nuestras interacciones con los demás, siempre queremos estar en una posición de poder y obligar a otros a hacer lo que queramos. Cuando otras personas tienen ideas diferentes o si su pensamiento no está en línea con el nuestro, nos resistimos a ellas, las rechazamos en nuestros corazones, e incluso las juzgamos y menospreciamos. Cuando conocemos a personas con más talento que nosotros mismos, nos ponemos celosos y no podemos evitar tratar de competir con ellas y esforzarnos contra ellas por ganancias y estatus. Durante el trabajo o en los sermones, a menudo persistimos en lo mucho que hemos trabajado para el Señor y cuánto le hemos dado para exaltarnos y llamar la atención sobre nosotros mismos, sin embargo, ponemos poco énfasis en comunicar la voluntad y los requisitos de Dios. Como resultado, hacemos que nuestros hermanos y hermanas nos adoren y admiren y luego no hay lugar para Dios en sus corazones. A menudo, no podemos evitar que mintamos y engañemos para proteger nuestro propio interés, reputación y estatus, por lo tanto no somo el pueblo honesto que Dios requiere que seamos. Si bien podemos abandonar todo para servir a Dios y trabajar incansablemente, cuando nos encontramos con alguna tragedia o nuestros intereses se ven comprometidos, todavía nos quejamos de Dios y malinterpretamos a Él, o incluso queremos dejar nuestro ministerio. Estos ejemplos abundan. Dado que a menudo pecamos e incluso nos rebelamos contra Dios y nos resistimos a Él, ¿cómo esperamos que lo ganemos a Él o que lleguemos directamente al reino de los cielos?
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Exodus 15:2
American Standard Version
2 Jehovah is my strength and song,
And he is become my salvation:
This is my God, and I will praise him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Le Palais Longchamp, créé pour fêter l’arrivée de l’eau via le canal de Marseille, exalte cet élément à travers son architecture et sa composition. Le problème de l’eau a longtemps été majeur à Marseille. Le 8 juillet 1947, les eaux arrivent sur le plateau Longchamp depuis la Durance. Du coup, c’est tout Marseille qui se transforme. C’est à cette occasion que l’architecte Henry Espérandieu (à qui l’on doit notamment la Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde) dessine un projet ambitieux comprenant une fontaine monumentale entourée de deux ailes tout aussi imposantes. L’aile gauche abrite le Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle qui abrite quantité de curiosités du XVIIIè, tandis que l’aile droite accueille le Musée des Beaux-Arts qui conserve des peintures, des sculptures datant du XVIè au XIXè siècle. C’est le plus vieux musée marseillais ! Il est en effet ouvert depuis 1801.
Deux escaliers contournent la fontaine permettant d’accéder aux musées mais aussi aux trois jardins situés de l’autre côté.
"Les Highlands à la beauté sauvage
Exaltant de montagnes et de grands lacs
Nous plongent dans les eaux troublantes
Du monstre du Loch Ness...
C'est ainsi que Nessie depuis des siècles
Habite les esprits ..."
Josette Jouet.
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« Le vitrail est exaltant, il lui faut de la gravité, de la passion. Il doit vivre à travers la lumière perçue. »
Marc Chagall, le "Passeur de lumière" explore l’importance de la lumière et du vitrail dans l’œuvre de l’artiste. Au terme de près de 30 ans de création de vitraux, ces mots de Chagall condensent le rôle que l’artiste assignait à l’art du vitrail : porter à l’humanité un message de spiritualité et de lumière intérieure.
Adivínase el dulce y perfumado
calor primaveral;
los gérmenes se agitan en la tierra
con inquietud en su amoroso afán,
y cruzan por los aires, silenciosos,
átomos que se besan al pasar.
Hierve la sangre juvenil, se exalta
lleno de aliento el corazón, y audaz
el loco pensamiento sueña y cree
que el hombre es, cual los dioses, inmortal.
No importa que los sueños sean mentira,
ya que al cabo es verdad
que es venturoso el que soñando muere,
infeliz el que vive sin soñar.
¡Pero qué aprisa en este mundo triste
todas las cosas van!
¡Que las domina el vértigo creyérase!
La que ayer fue capullo, es rosa ya,
y pronto agostará rosas y plantas
el calor estival.
Rosalía de Castro
"Exalt the Lord our God
and worship at his holy mountain,
for the Lord our God is holy."
Psalm 99
flower flowers white canon close-up macro green nature spring bokeh blur sun warm weather light lights
The Duomo of Firenze has always been considered a public place, by the Fiorentines, and exalts its illustrious men. For many years the 4 side doors of the church were open for the free passage of people who would simply like to cross the square.
"L'aube, l'ombre, le soir, l'espace et les étoiles ;
Ce que la nuit recèle ou montre entre ses voiles,
Se mêle à la ferveur de notre être exalté.
Ceux qui vivent d'amour vivent d'éternité.
(...)"
Extrait d'un poème de Émile VERHAEREN
1855 - 1916
Hans Memling 1435-1494 Bruges
Flowers in a jug. Fleurs dans une cruche. 1485
Madrid Thyssen-Bornemisza.
LE BEAU FAIT DU BIEN
Le monde est là pour être goûté; la réalité est là comme un banquet qui s'offre, l'art n'est rien d'autre que l'exaltation de la saveur cachée des choses.
François CHENG. (« Toute beauté est singulière » « D’où jaillit le chant » et « Shitao, la saveur du monde »)
L'Art ? Exprimer "ce grand paquet de choses vivantes".
PAUL CLAUDEL.
Tout manque d’harmonie entre l’être et les choses, entre la vie et ses lois, même chez les grands hommes, ne tient pas à leur grandeur : il tient à leur faiblesse.
ROMAIN ROLLAND Vie de Michel Ange 1908
L'art de tous les temps et dans toutes les sociétés est un moyen pour les élites d'imposer une religion (sacrée) ou une idéologie (profane, laïque). L'art est donc un intéressant révélateur de la pensée philosophique et morale qui inspire les élites d'une société donnée en un temps donné. Ces religions ou idéologies peuvent différer beaucoup quant au bénéfice que les peuples vont, ou non, en retirer. Certaines sont propices à l'établissement de civilisations au long cours (Egypte ancienne, Antiquité greco-romaine, Christianisme, Hindouisme, Bouddhisme, Islam....) d'autres sont plus ou moins rapidement mortelles ( Sociétés Aztèque et Inca, Communisme, National-Socialisme).
En effet certaines idéologies, sacrées ou profanes, conçues par les élites, ont été, à plus ou moins court terme, acceptées et totalement partagées par les peuples qui y ont adhéré sans réticence. Elles peuvent alors s'imposer totalement sans heurter les sentiments et les libertés des populations, ou tout au moins d'une majorité largement significative, voire faire l'unanimité à l'intérieur de leur société durant une longue période de temps.
D'autres idéologies par contre ont été imposées par les élites, mais n'ont pas suscité l'adhésion unanime ou majoritaire des peuples qui sont entrés en résistance, passive ou active avec plus ou moins de succès au bout d'une période plus ou moins longue.
Il est possible de rencontrer dans l'histoire du monde une autre situation: celles d'idéologies, sacrées ou laïques, souvent de provenance étrangères, qui ont été adoptées, ou auraient été adoptées, par des peuples, mais ont été combattues par les élites idéologiques et politiques du pays.
Après un passage par les salles d'art contemporain des musées d'Occident, nombreuses sont les personnes qui éprouvent un véritable soulagement, et disent leur plaisir, leur sentiment de bonheur, de plénitude en revenant à l'art ancien ou à l'art moderne (1850-1950), bref aux Beaux Arts.
Un philosophe anglais actuel, Roger Scruton (Youtube) ose rappeler que le Beau est important pour l'homme.
Effectivement le Beau fait du Bien. Il n'est pas question ici de haute philosophie ni de s'interroger sur les relations, correspondances et différences entre le Beau et le Bien, le Laid et le Mal, mais d'un constat d'expérience et d'une proposition de bon sens
C'est un fait, le Beau fait du Bien, et c'est la raison pour laquelle il faut s'inquiéter, et ne pas hésiter à protester contre un art contemporain qui impose le Laid comme critère de ses choix.
Il ne faut pas se laisser intimider par le totalitarisme d'une conception de l'art qui fait du mal à la majorité d'une population. 70% puisque les statistiques montrent que c'est le pourcentage de la population, en tout cas française, qui se désintéresse de l'art contemporain.
Il faut s'inquiéter de l'existence et de la légitimité d'une élite qui impose aux peuples d'Occident des laideurs, prône et adore sur ses modernes autels dressés dans des salles d'art contemporain immenses comme des cathédrales, ce Laid qui nous veut du mal.
Remplacer la religion du Beau par celle du Laid n'est pas innocent, c'est un projet pervers.
Et quand ce projet ajoute encore à sa nocivité le Non-Sens et l'Absurdité il faut oser dire non, cela suffit, c'est une violation de nos consciences et une atteinte à notre conception de la vie et tout simplement à notre environnement.
Ce choix des élites a des effets pervers, non seulement sur les visiteurs des musées, mais aussi ailleurs que dans nos espaces d'art contemporain, par l'exemple qu'il propose aux peuples en justifiant le laid et le non sens. Par contagion.
Il faut constater qu'en dehors des cercles officiels, dans les classes moyennes, est clairement apparu, en peinture, sculpture, en photographie même, après les années 1960, un courant se voulant artistique, mais très orienté vers l'expression du laid et de l'absurde. Dans le portrait et la représentation de l'homme et de la femme notamment. Cette fascination pour le laid, qui se répand, est certainement l'expression d'un malaise existentiel, d'une désespérance quotidienne située à un niveau plus global: celui de la société occidentale contemporaine.
C'est un fait que l'art des rues, populaire et spontané, est généralement plus divers, plus imaginatif, plus beau et plus porteur de sens que l'art élitiste, officiel et dirigé des musées d'arts contemporains.
Mais c'est aussi un fait que les rues de nos villes et nos grandes voies de circulation sont le lieu d'expression d'un vandalisme du beau et du sens, d'une volonté de provocation et d'un mépris flagrant des autres. Le Non-art n'existe pas que dans les musées d'art contemporain, il est aussi très présent dans nos rues et parfaitement toléré et même encouragé dans certains quartiers. Pas les "beaux quartiers" bien sûr, qui sont protégés. Ce non-art des rues emprunte beaucoup à l'exemple donné par le non-art des élites.
Le poisson commence de pourrir par la tête, mais le poisson finit par pourrir tout entier.
BEAUTY IS GOOD FOR YOU
The world is there to be tasted; reality is there as a banquet that is offered, art is nothing more than the exaltation of the hidden flavor of things.
François CHENG. ("All beauty is singular" "From where the song springs" and "Shitao, the flavor of the world")
Art? Express "this great package of living things".
PAUL CLAUDEL.
Any lack of harmony between being and things, between life and its laws, even among great men, is not due to their greatness: it is due to their weakness.
ROMAIN ROLLAND Life of Michel Ange 1908
The art of all times and in all societies is a means for the elites to impose a (sacred) religion or an ideology (secular, secular). Art is therefore an interesting revealer of the philosophical and moral thought that inspires the elites of a given society in a given time. These religions or ideologies can differ a lot as to the benefit that peoples will or will not withdraw. Some are conducive to the establishment of long-term civilizations (ancient Egypt, Greek-Roman antiquity, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam ...) others are more or less rapidly mortal (Aztec and Inca society, Communism, national Socialism).
Indeed, certain ideologies, sacred or secular, conceived by the elites, have been, more or less short term, accepted and totally shared by the peoples who adhered to it without reluctance. They can then impose themselves completely without hurting the feelings and freedoms of the people, or at least a largely significant majority, even unanimity within their society for a long period of time.
Other ideologies, on the other hand, have been imposed by the elites, but did not generate the membership unanimous or majority of peoples that came into resistance, passive or active with more or less success after a shorter or longer period.
It is possible to encounter a different situation in the history of the world: those of ideologies, sacred or secular, often of foreign origin which have been adopted, or would have been adopted by peoples, but were fought by the elites ideological and political of the country.
After a passage through the contemporary art galleries of the museums of the Occident, many people are experiencing real relief, and say their pleasure, their feeling of happiness, plenitude by returning to ancient art or to Modern Art (1850-1950), in brief at the Fine Arts.
A current English philosopher, Roger Scruton (Youtube) dares to recall that the Beautiful is important for humans.
Indeed Beauty is good for you . The point is not highly philosophical. It is not a question of interrogate the relations, correspondences and differences between Beauty and the goodness, the ugly and the Evil, but to note and recall a fact of experience and a proposition of common sense.
It is a fact, Beauty does good, and that is why we must be concerned, and not hesitate to protest against a contemporary art that imposes the Ugliness as a criterion of its choices.
We must not be intimidated by the totalitarianism of a conception of art that hurts the majority of a population. 70% since statistics show that it is the percentage of the population, at least in France, that is losing interest in contemporary art.
We must be concerned about the existence and legitimacy of an elite that imposes ugliness on the peoples of the West, advocates and adores on its modern altars erected in huge contemporary art rooms like cathedrals, this ugliness that wants to hurt us.
Replace the religion of beauty with that of the ugly is not innocent, it is a perverse project.
And when this project adds to its harmfulness the Non-Sense and the Absurdity, one must dare to say no, it is enough, it is a violation of our consciences and an attack on our conception of the life and simply to our environment.
This choice of elites has perverse effects, not only on visitors to museums, but also elsewhere than in our contemporary art spaces, by the example he proposes to the people by justifying the ugly and nonsense. By contagion.
It must be noted that outside the official circles, in the middle classes, clearly appeared, in painting, sculpture, in photography even, after the 1960s, an artistic current, very oriented towards the expression of the ugly and The absurd. In the portrait and representation of man and woman in particular. This fascination with the ugly, which is spreading, is certainly the expression of an existential malaise, of a daily despair situated at a more global level: that of contemporary Western society.
It is a fact that the art of the streets, popular and spontaneous, is generally more diverse, more imaginative, more beautiful and more meaningful than the elitist, official and directed art of contemporary art museums.
But it is also a fact that the streets of our cities and our great roads are the place of expression of a vandalism of the beauty and meaning, a will to provoke and a blatant disregard for others. Non-art does not exist only in museums of contemporary art, it is also very present in our streets and perfectly tolerated and even encouraged in certain neighborhoods. Not the "uptown" of course, which are protected. This non-art of the street art borrows much from the example given by the non-art of the elites.
The fish begin to rot by the head, but the fish ends up rotting whole.
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All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
Lao Tzu--The Tao: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Unifying Physical Reality of the Fourth Expanding Dimensionsion dx4/dt=ic !: geni.us/Fa1Q
"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." --John Muir
Epic Stoicism guides my fine art odyssey and photography: geni.us/epicstoicism
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” --John Muir
Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” --John Muir
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Exalt the goddess archetype in the fine art of photography! My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
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Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Best wishes on your Epic Odyssey!
Homer: Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home. . . --Homer's Odyssey, Book I
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All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
Lao Tzu--The Tao: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Unifying Physical Reality of the Fourth Expanding Dimensionsion dx4/dt=ic !: geni.us/Fa1Q
"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." --John Muir
Epic Stoicism guides my fine art odyssey and photography: geni.us/epicstoicism
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” --John Muir
Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” --John Muir
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Exalt the goddess archetype in the fine art of photography! My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ... Epic! Beautiful Surf Fine Art Portrait Swimsuit Bikini Models!
Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Best wishes on your Epic Odyssey!
Homer: Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home. . . --Homer's Odyssey, Book I
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All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
Lao Tzu--The Tao: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Unifying Physical Reality of the Fourth Expanding Dimensionsion dx4/dt=ic !: geni.us/Fa1Q
"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." --John Muir
Epic Stoicism guides my fine art odyssey and photography: geni.us/epicstoicism
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” --John Muir
Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” --John Muir
Epic Art & 45EPIC Gear exalting golden ratio designs for your Hero's Odyssey:
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Exalt the goddess archetype in the fine art of photography! My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ... Epic! Beautiful Surf Fine Art Portrait Swimsuit Bikini Models!
Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
Photographs available as epic fine art luxury prints. For prints and licensing information, please send me a flickr mail or contact drelliot@gmail.com with your queries! All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey!
Sea Cave! Sony A7R2 & Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS Lens SEL1635Z! 42 mp Malibu Beach Sunset! Red, ORange, Yellow Breaking Storm Clouds Landscapes! High Resolution California Sunset Photos! Socal Stormy Skies El Matador Beach Sunset! Dr. Elliot McGucken High Res Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Scenic Seacaves California Sunsets!
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Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
Enjoy my physics!! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical
Malibu Beach Sunset Red, ORange, Yellow Breaking Storm Clouds Landscapes! High Resolution California Sunset Photos! Socal Stormy Skies El Matador Beach Sunset! Dr. Elliot McGucken High Res Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Scenic California Sunsets!
O Grove est un village de pêcheurs ayant reçu le surnom de « paradis des fruits de mer ». Situé dans la province de Pontevedra, tous les mois d'octobre, il accueille la Fête de l'exaltation des fruits de mer.
Le superbe emplacement géographique d'O Grove, dans le sud des Rías Baixas, permet de rencontrer de délicieux fruits de mer tout au long de l'année. Parmi ceux-ci, mentionnons les crabes, araignées, homards et langoustes.
Tous les environs d'O Grove sont remplis d'élevages de fruits de mer. À Muros et Noia, un peu plus au nord d'O Grove, les spécialités sont les coques et les palourdes. Si vous souhaitez déguster ces merveilles de la gastronomie dans une ambiance tranquille, à l'écart de la ville, rendez-vous dans l'île d'Ons (Pontevedra), où vous découvrirez l'environnement idyllique du parc national d'Illas Atlánticas et pourrez déguster les bruños (sorte de crabes), et la caldeirada de poulpe.
i will exalt you
i will exalt you
i will exalt you
..you are my God.
please listen to this, and watch this. please do this right now.
i just want you all to know. that i do this for Him.
in everything i create.
isn't it the most amazing thing that the very first creator....the one who created everything...
is still creating?
today... through us. if we allow him to.
There is no greater satisfaction than living for the glory of God.
it is not binding or boring.
it is the most thrilling and beautiful and crazy and fulfilling and hopeful and amazing life.
i do this, this thing called living...for Him.
and in my heart,
i am passionate about the things he created me to be passionate about.
in all of us are passions. maybe not all the same....because we all perform different functions in the body of humanity.
but i just want you to pursue your passions.
please....its what he created you to do.
if you deny these things, you are walking in disobedience to your maker.
he wants to bless you and show you how good life can be.
just let him.
Three Brothers El Capitan Merced River Yosemite Autumn Colors Red Yellow Orange Green Leaves Fuji GFX100! Yosemite National Park California Autumn Colors Fall Foliage Fine Art Landscape Nature Photography! Elliot McGucken Master Fine Art Luxury Photography Fuji GFX 100 !
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All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
Lao Tzu--The Tao: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Unifying Physical Reality of the Fourth Expanding Dimensionsion dx4/dt=ic !: geni.us/Fa1Q
"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." --John Muir
Epic Stoicism guides my fine art odyssey and photography: geni.us/epicstoicism
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” --John Muir
Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” --John Muir
Epic Art & 45EPIC Gear exalting golden ratio designs for your Hero's Odyssey:
Support epic fine art! 45surf ! Bitcoin: 1FMBZJeeHVMu35uegrYUfEkHfPj5pe9WNz
Exalt the goddess archetype in the fine art of photography! My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ... Epic! Beautiful Surf Fine Art Portrait Swimsuit Bikini Models!
Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
Photographs available as epic fine art luxury prints. For prints and licensing information, please send me a flickr mail or contact drelliot@gmail.com with your queries! All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey!
Epic Fine Art Laguna Beach Victoria Beach Sunset LAndscape Seascape: The Golden Ratio in Dr. Elliot McGucken's Fine Art Photography: Nikon D810
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after, thusly providing symmetry over not only space but time, and exalting life’s foundational dynamic symmetry. Robust, ordered, symmetric growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in the arrangement of nature’s discrete elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which they and all their vital sustenance, as well as all the flowers and nature’s epic beauty, had been created—the golden ratio.
High Res Upper Antelope Canyon Light Beams! McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography: Light Beams & Dr. Elliot McGucken Epic Fine Art!
My Epic Gear Guide for Epic Landscapes & Portraits!
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My fine art photography graces my physics books!
Regarding the award-winning physicist Dr. Elliot McGucken at Princeton University, the late John Archibald Wheeler stated, "More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken's I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet."
Dr. E would go on to heal the blind with his NSF-funded, award-winning Ph.D. dissertation which also laid down the foundations of Light Time Dimension Theory. Over the years, LTD Theory added foundational *physical* postulates, principles, and equations en route to becoming numerous books, with this one forming the simple, illustrated introduction.
Epic Landscape Photography:
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The great thing about the beach is that it presents an entirely different universe from season to season, from day to day, from hour to hour, from second to second, with the ever changing wind, tides, clouds, and sun. A split second with tumbling surf and a sinking sun can make a vast different, resulting in entirely different photographs.
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Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic...
Dr. E's LTD Theory:
dx4/dt=ic : The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions.
Yosemite Winter Storm Valley View El Capitan Merced River Bridalveil Falls Blue Skies Snow Winter Photography! Sony A7R III & FE 16–35 mm G Master Wide-Angle Zoom Lens SEL1635GM Winter Snow Fine Art! Yosemite National Park Winter Snow California Landscape Photography! High Res 4k 8K! Elliot McGucken Art
Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
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Exalt the goddess archetype in the fine art of photography! My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
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Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All my photography celebrates the physics of light! dx4/dt=ic! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical: geni.us/Fa1Q
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
John Muir: All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.
Monument Valley! The Epic Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
Fresh snow! More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Malibu Fine Art Sea Cave Sunset Seascape! 45Epic Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Landscape and Nature Photography
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
Fresh snow! More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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INSPIRATION - Ma séance photo prise avec les coyotes du Bioparc à Bonaventure l'été dernier m'inspire beaucoup. Ici, j'ai recadré cette image plus serrée afin de bien présenter l'émotion qui s'en dégage, et j'ai aussi modifié la nuance des couleurs dans le but de se rapprocher des teintes plus réelles. Cette présentation se veut un travail personnel dans l'espoir de créer des images plus exaltantes...
Merci de votre visite.
"Le jour où je vais disparaître, j'aurai été poli avec la vie car je l'aurai bien aimée et beaucoup respectée. Je n'ai jamais considéré comme chose négligeable l'odeur des lilas, le bruit du vent dans les feuilles, le bruit du ressac sur le sable lorsque la mer est calme, le clapotis. Tous ces moments que nous donnent la nature, je les ai aimés, chéris, choyés. Je suis poli, voilà. Ils font partie de mes promenades et de mes étonnements heureux sans cesse renouvelés. Le passé c'est bien, mais l'exaltation du présent, c'est une façon de se tenir, un devoir.
Dans notre civilisation, on maltraite le présent, on est sans cesse tendu vers ce que l'on voudrait avoir, on ne s'émerveille plus de ce que l'on a. On se plaint de ce que l'on voudrait avoir. Drôle de mentalité! Se contenter ce n'est pas péjoratif. Revenir au bonheur de ce que l'on a, c'est un savoir vivre."
Olivier de Kersauson
i will exalt you
(Two in the comments)
I've got so many more to edit and upload, and I will...eventually.
The tropical storm that brought the beautiful rain was so refreshing.
I am now going for a run.
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All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
Lao Tzu--The Tao: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." --John Muir
Epic Stoicism guides my fine art odyssey and photography: geni.us/epicstoicism
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” --John Muir
Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” --John Muir
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Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Best wishes on your Epic Odyssey!
Homer: Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home. . . --Homer's Odyssey, Book I
I think I may be the only one who has ever captured this California sunrise! I first captured it two years ago, and I have been waiting to see if anyone else has captured it since!
One of the keys to shooting Epic Landscape Photography is exalting the photograph's soul via golden ratio compositions, thusly wedding the photographic art to the divine proportion by which life itself was designed and exalted.
Dr. Elliot McGucken's Golden Number Ratio Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Composition Studies!
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Greetings flickr friends! I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
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The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
Ansel Adams is not only my favorite photographer, but he is one of the greatest photographers and artists of all time. And just like great artists including Michelangelo, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli, and Picasso, Ansel used the golden ratio and divine proportions in his epic art.
Not so long ago I discovered golden regions in many of his famous public domain his 8x10 aspect ratio photographs. I call these golden harmony regions "regions of golden action" or "ROGA"S, as seen here:
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And too, I created some videos highlighting Ansel's use of the golden harmonies. Enjoy!
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More golden ratio and epic photography composition books soon! Best wishes for the Holiday Season! Dr. Elliot McGucken :)
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Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All my photography celebrates the physics of light! dx4/dt=ic! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical: geni.us/Fa1Q
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
John Muir: All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.
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Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
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Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All my photography celebrates the physics of light! dx4/dt=ic! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical: geni.us/Fa1Q
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
John Muir: All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.
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LE BEAU EST UNE EXPÉRIENCE PARTAGÉE
"Le monde discerne la beauté, et, par là le laid se révèle. Le monde reconnaît le bien et, par là le mal se révèle."
Dao De Jing, le Livre de la Voie et de la Vertu
LAO TSEU (Laozi)
“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil.”
Dao De Jing, The Book of the Way and Virtue
LAO TZU (Laozi)
"Tout l’art florentin depuis Giotto et tout au long du Quattrocento, possède cette stupéfiante qualité de vérité absolue, reconnue. L’effet immédiat d’un grand Giotto ou d’un Masaccio est de laisser le spectateur sans voix. Cela s’appelait autrefois la Beauté."
MARIE MAC CARTHY "Les Pierres de Florence" 1956.
“All great Florentine art, from Giotto through the quattrocento, has the faculty of amazing with its unexpected and absolute truthfulness. This faculty was once called beauty The immediate effect of a great Giotto or Masaccio is to strike the beholder dumb.”
MARY McCARTHY, “The Stones of Florence,” 1956.
"Il est impossible de rien comprendre à l'art médiéval si l’on ne comprend pas quel espace de liberté y est consenti à l’artiste. L’art médiéval offre l’évidence d’un plaisir des formes qui est commun aux artistes et à leur public et qui ne se confond pas avec l’inspiration religieuse."
ANDRE CHASTEL. L’Art Français Flammarion 1993
"It is impossible to understand anything about medieval art if we do not understand what space of freedom is granted to the artist. Medieval art offers evidence of a pleasure of form that is common to artists and their audiences and not confused with religious inspiration."
ANDRE CHASTEL. French Art Flammarion 1993
Le monde est là pour être goûté; la réalité est là comme un banquet qui s'offre, l'art n'est rien d'autre que l'exaltation de la saveur cachée des choses.
François CHENG. (« Toute beauté est singulière » « D’où jaillit le chant » et « Shitao, la saveur du monde »)
The world is there to be tasted; reality is there as a banquet that is offered, art is nothing more than the exaltation of the hidden flavor of things.
François CHENG. ("All beauty is singular" "From where the song springs" and "Shitao, the flavor of the world")
Contrairement à une idée reçue, toute nouvelle, considérée comme une évidence à notre époque, le Beau n'est pas subjectif. Non, le Beau n'est pas seulement une question de goût personnel, un arbitraire total, absolument égocentrique. Le beau n'est pas autiste, il est un partage, même si certaines de ses formes peuvent être plus accessibles à certaines personnes qu'à d'autres, à certaines cultures et pas à d'autres.
La preuve que le Beau existe est qu'il est reconnu et admis de manière unanime par les opinions publiques, et celle des spécialistes, pour des millions d' oeuvres dont les dates de création vont de - 3000 à nos jours. Le Beau est d'ailleurs reconnu, vécu comme une expérience généralement partagée, non seulement dans l'art mais dans tout le spectacle de la Nature.
Il faut laisser de côté les définitions abstraites. Les Philosophes n'ont jamais réussi à donner une définition satisfaisante et incontestable du Beau. Laissons à Platon son Idée d'un Beau transcendant impossible à atteindre. Restons à un niveau plus trivial, celui de la beauté remarquable, concrète : il n'y a absolument aucune discussion sérieuse quant à l'existence du Beau, d'une sensation commune, une émotion poétique, partagée par des millions d'hommes, depuis L'Art Paléolithique, l'Art Egyptien jusqu'à l'Art Moderne, depuis la Chine jusqu'à l'Europe et l'Amérique.
Le Beau ne se définit pas, il se ressent individuellement et collectivement. Individuellement ressenti le beau est seulement subjectif, il n'a d'importance que pour une personne, collectivement ressenti, partagé par les élites et les populations, ensemble, il s'objective. Il devient une réalité à l'échelle d'une collectivité plus ou moins large, et même jusqu'à la Terre entière. Le Beau est tout simplement un fait vérifié par l'expérience de milliers de générations d'humains sur l'ensemble de la Terre.
Des trois idées fondamentales, Beau, Bien, Vrai, le Beau est la première dont il est possible de repérer l'apparition avec certitude dans l'histoire des hommes: Parce qu'il laisse des traces que nous constatons. Quand apparait l'idée de Bien? Quand apparaît l'idée de Vrai ?
Le Beau ne se définit pas, il se ressent et il évolue en fonction du temps. Sans aucun doute l'erreur de l'Académie de Paris vers 1850 a été de vouloir définir les règles du Beau, in abstracto, pour tous les temps et toutes les civilisations, erreur profonde, et les impressionnistes ont eu très vite raison contre lui. Ils ont démontré que le Beau partagé pouvait prendre d'autres formes.
Le Beau peut prendre des formes différentes selon les cultures ou les civilisations. Il est reconnu comme Beau à l'intérieur de son domaine culturel, mais aussi souvent à l'extérieur.
La peinture des lettrés chinois est très particulière, il est possible à titre individuel de ne pas l'apprécier, mais il serait faux de parler à son propos d'un Art du laid, et elle n'est pas jugée comme tel par l'épreuve du temps et de sa confrontation avec d'autres cultures comme celle occidentale.
Le Beau est tout simplement un fait vérifié par l'expérience de milliers de générations d'humains sur l'ensemble de la Terre. Le tableau de Léonard de Vinci, la Joconde (Mona Lisa) et le succès qu'il rencontre auprès des populations extrême orientales est une preuve de cette universalité du Beau.
Il existe "un sens du Beau, commun à toute l'humanité" qui est indépendant des modes, des religions et des idéologies et même des cultures. Même s'il ne faut pas négliger certaines spécificités ou variabilités tenant à telle culture ou à telle époque. Le constat global reste celui d'un partage du sentiment du beau à l'échelle universelle.
Le beau s'identifie par une intense satisfaction, un sentiment de bonheur, de joie, d'ordre sensuel ou intellectuel qui envahit la personne, c'est son point de départ subjectif . Ce point de départ subjectif qui s'objective par le partage de ce sentiment avec une foule d'autres personnes, de cultures et d'époques différentes, pour parvenir à l'émergence d'une quasi unanimité et d'une quasi universalité.
Le beau est certes un vécu subjectif en ce qu'il est ressenti individuellement, mais il s'objective par l'opinion convergente, formulée au cours du temps, par les peuples et les élites. C'est ce jugement commun des peuples et des élites, cette expérience partagée, qui objective et prouve le Beau.
Ce qui est subjectif ce sont les préférences des individus. Ce qui est subjectif c'est quand une personne préfère les fresques romanes ou l'art du gothique international à la peinture de la Renaissance Italienne.
Quand une personne préfère l'art du paysage ou la peinture de moeurs à la peinture religieuse.
Si on avait dit à Fra Angelico, à Raphaël ou à Rubens que le Beau n'existe pas et est affaire purement subjective, ils auraient haussé les épaules.
Non seulement le sentiment du Beau est un fait d'expérience, un bien commun à l'humanité, qui traverse les temps et les cultures, mais le Beau peut être ressenti alors que les idéologies qui ont inspiré les oeuvres d'art à une époque donnée, dans une région de la Terre, sont mortes en tant que croyances actives.
Il n'est pas nécessaire de croire dans les Esprits, les Dieux Egyptiens, Grecs, Hindous ou dans les Bouddhas pour apprécier la beauté de l'art des cavernes, de l'Egypte antique, de la Grèce, de l'Inde, ou de l'Asie du Sud Est.
De même, les représentations de Dieu et du monde qui sont celles des églises chrétiennes, qui ont été vivantes et profondément significatives pour les populations européennes pendant plus d'un millénaire, peuvent ne plus avoir de sens pour une très large majorité des populations de l'Europe de l'Ouest et du Nord au 21è siècle. Il reste cependant que ces populations, comme d'autres peuples dans d'autres cultures, peuvent reconnaître le Beau dans des oeuvres d'art dont les symboles ne sont plus idéologiquement significatifs pour elles, voire même leur paraissent absurdes. Les croyances changent mais le sentiment du Beau dure.
Le Beau est donc un fait constaté au travers de toute l'histoire des civilisations.
Le Beau est certes une idée, mais pendant des siècles ce n'était pas une idéologie. Et encore moins son contraire le Laid. Les multiples idéologies, le plus souvent religieuses, qui ont habité durant des millénaires l'esprit des hommes ont utilisé l'idée du beau pour soutenir leurs croyances les plus diverses et même opposées.
A partir de la seconde moitié du 20è siècle les élites idéologiques et politiques de l'Occident, athées, ont décidé d' imposer la croyance que le Beau n'existait pas, et de faire croire que le Laid est une valeur recommandable. L'art contemporain officiel en est la démonstration: Le laid est devenu une idéologie, l'idéologie correcte du mondialisme. La population la plus "éclairée" est invitée à communier avec le Laid, et l'Absurde, à y patauger délicieusement, avec distinction et conceptualisme.
L'affirmation que le Beau n'existe pas, est purement subjectif, est une idée fausse, conçue et répandue au cours de la seconde moitié du 20è siècle pour des motifs idéologiques et économiques.
Les motifs idéologiques sont, notamment, que ce relativisme permet de justifier l'Art Laid officiel et que l'art laid est un critère de distinction entre les Eclairés et ceux qui ne le sont pas. L'homme peut en effet inventer des idéologies, des croyances, qui nient le Beau et le Bien. Cette capacité d'invention de croyances les plus diverses et contraires fait la différence entre l'homme et les animaux.
C'est une évolution mais ce n'est pas nécessairement un progrès. Ce peut être, c'est toujours, inévitablement, sous certains aspects, aussi une régression. La capacité d'inventer le Beau rencontre son contraire, celle d'inventer le Laid. Et même, comme dans l'art contemporain officiel, d'en faire une règle, une doctrine. La capacité au Bien est inséparable de celle de faire le Mal. Et la formulation de vérités ouvre toute grande la porte aux mensonges.
Un autre motif idéologique du Mondialisme est la destruction des identités civilisationnelles, culturelles, une volonté d'uniformisation de l'humanité pour mieux la contrôler. C'est pourquoi l'art contemporain mondialiste est sans racines aucunes, dans aucune culture de la Terre. La disparition des différences est programmée, sauf quelques réserves pour humains inférieurs, animaux et plantes rares. Vive la bio-diversité. Mais place à l'homme-robotisé.
Outre les motifs idéologiques, cette affirmation permet aussi de fabriquer et de vendre du Laid, ce qui est une excellente affaire. Et ce n'est pas la moindre raison de ce succès. L'Art Contemporain Officiel, étatique, l'art des grandes Organisations Culturelle Internationales a bien évidemment partie liée avec le grand capitalisme des marchands et des financiers, et avec les Grandes Fondations "philanthropiques" qui en sont l'émanation. Des Fondations pour lesquelles le profit peut se faire à propos du beau, mais tout aussi bien avec du laid. Et si le laid est de meilleur profit, ils n'hésiteront pas. Ils peuvent même vous faire croire que le laid est beau. Et en attendant votre conversion, ils vous font croire que c'est légitime et surtout supérieurement intelligent. Car plus l'acheteur potentiel restera bouche béante devant l’œuvre, plus grand il ouvrira son portefeuille.
Quant au grand public ordinaire: "on peut faire avaler n'importe quoi aux gens" a dit Marcel Duchamp. Oui, c'est vrai. Pas nécessairement d'ailleurs que "les gens avalent n'importe quoi ", mais certainement que les gens n'osent pas critiquer et condamner le "n'importe quoi". Soyez Soft, soyez Zen, au nom du Soft et du Zen, et de la mode, "on peut faire avaler n'importe quoi aux gens".
BEAUTY IS A SHARED EXPERIENCE
Contrary to a widely, yet only recently accepted notion, which is now considered a truism, Beauty is not subjective. No, Beauty is not just a matter of personal taste, total arbitrariness and absolute egocentricity. Beauty is not autistic, it involves sharing, although some of its forms may be more accessible to some people than others, to some cultures and not to others.
The proof that Beauty exists is that it is recognized and unanimously accepted as such by public opinion and by specialists, with regard to millions of works of art created between 3000 B.C. to the present day. Beauty is generally recognized as a shared experience, not just in relation to art, but also in the spectacle that Nature offers.
Abstract definitions should be set aside. Philosophers have never succeeded in giving a satisfactory and unquestionable definition of Beauty. Forget about Plato and his idea of transcendent, unattainable Beauty. Let us stay at a more trivial level, that of outstanding, concrete beauty : there is absolutely no serious dispute as to the existence of Beauty, a shared sensation, a poetic emotion shared by millions of men, from Paleolithic and Egyptian Art to Modern Art, from China to Europe and America.
Beauty does not define itself, it is felt individually and collectively. Individually felt Beauty is only subjective, it only matters to one person ; collectively felt Beauty, shared by the elites and the people alike, becomes objective. Beauty becomes a reality at the level of a larger community that can even extend to the entire Planet. Beauty is simply a fact verified by the experience of thousands of generations of human beings spanning the entire Earth.
One can even argue that of the three fundamental ideas — Beauty, Goodness, and Truth — Beauty is the first that we can discern with certainty in the history of mankind, because Beauty leaves visible traces. When does the idea of Goodness appear ? When does the idea of Truth appear ?
Beauty cannot be defined, it is felt and evolves with the passing of time. The mistake of the Paris Academy around 1850 was undeniably to seek to define Beauty, in abstraction, for all time and all civilizations ; a grievous error, against which the Impressionists very quickly dispelled. They demonstrated that shared Beauty could take other forms.
Beauty can take different forms depending on the culture or civilization. It is recognized as Beauty within its cultural domain, but also often outside it.
Chinese scholarly painting is very particular, it is possible for an individual not to appreciate it, but it would be wrong to speak about it an Art of Ugliness, and it is not deemed as such by the test of time and its confrontation with other cultures, such as the Western. Beautify is simply a fact verified by the experience of thousands of generations of human beings all over the Earth. Leonardo’s painting of the Mona Lisa and its popularity among the peoples of the Far East testify to this universality of the Beauty.
There exists “a sense of beauty, common to all mankind” that transcend fashions, religions, ideologies, and even cultures, even though certain variables specific to a certain culture or period should not be disregarded. The bottom line remains a shared feeling of beauty on a universal scale.
Beauty is identified by intense pleasure, a feeling of happiness, of joy, of a sensual or intellectual nature that overwhelms a person, that is its subjective starting point. This subjective starting point becomes objective when the feeling is shared with a multitude of other people, of different cultures and eras, giving rise to a near unanimous and universal experience of Beauty.
Beauty is certainly a subjective experience in that it is felt individually, but it is objectivized by the convergence of opinion, formulated in the course of time, between the people and the elite. It is this common opinion the people and the elites, this shared experience, which objectivizes and verifies Beauty.
It is individuals’ preferences that are subjective. Subjective is a person’s preference for Romanesque frescoes or international Gothic art over Italian Renaissance painting, or preference for landscape or genre painting over religious painting.
If someone had told Fra Angelico, Raphael, or Rubens that Beauty does not exist and is a purely subjective matter, they would have shrugged.
The Beautiful is certainly a subjective, individually felt, but it is objectified by the synthesis of the multiple opinions of peoples and their elites.
Not only is the sense of Beauty a matter of experience, a common heritage of mankind spanning periods and cultures, but Beauty can be experienced even after the ideologies that inspired art works at a certain period of time, in a specific part of the Earth, have died as active beliefs.
There is no need to believe in the Spirits or Gods of the Egyptians, Greeks, Hindus or in Buddhas in order to appreciate the beauty of cave art, or the art of ancient Egypt, Greece, India, or Southeast Asia.
Likewise, the representations of God and the world prevailing in Christian churches, that have been alive and deeply meaningful to the peoples of Europe for over a millennium, may no longer make sense for a very large majority of the peoples of Western and Northern of the Europe in the 21st century. The fact remains, however, that those peoples, like other peoples in other cultures, can recognize Beauty in art works whose symbols are no longer ideologically meaningful or even appear absurd, to them. Beliefs change but the sense of Beauty remains.
Beauty is therefore an experience fact observed throughout the history of civilizations.
Beauty is certainly an idea, but for centuries it was not an ideology. And even less its polar opposite, Ugliness. The many ideologies, most often of a religious nature, that have inhabited men’s minds for thousands of years have used the idea of Beauty to support the most diverse and even opposite beliefs.
Beginning in the second half of the 20th century, the ideological and political elites of the West, all atheists, decided to impose the belief that Beauty does not exist, and to force people to believe that Ugliness is a positive, commendable quality. Official contemporary art is the proof : ugliness has become an ideology, the correct ideology of globalism. The most “enlightened” segment of the population is urged to commune with the Ugly and the Absurd, to wallow in it with delight, and to revel in its distinction and conceptualism.
The assertion that Beauty does not exist and is purely subjective, is a false idea, conceived and propagated during the second half of the 20th century for ideological and economic motives.
The ideological motives are, in particular, that such relativism allows one to justify the official Art of the Ugly and that Ugly Art is a criterion distinguishing the Enlightened from those who are not. Man can indeed invent ideologies or beliefs that negate Beauty and Goodness. This ability to make up the most diverse and even contrary beliefs is what sets apart mankind from animals.
Evolution it may be, but not necessarily progress. It can be, in fact from certain aspects it is always and inevitably a regression. The ability to invent Beauty has met its opposite, that of inventing Ugliness. And even, as in official contemporary art, to set it up as a rule, a doctrine. The capability to do Good is inseparable from that to do Evil. And the formulation of truths opens the door wide to lies.
Another ideological motive for globalism is the destruction of civilizational and cultural identities, a desire to standardize humanity in order to better control it. This is why contemporary globalist art has no roots whatsoever in any culture on Earth. The disappearance of differences is programmed, except for a few reserves for inferior humans, animals and rare plants. Long live bio-diversity. But make way for the robotic man.
Beyond ideological motives, this finding also makes it possible to manufacture and sell the Ugly, which is a wonderful deal. And that is not the least reason for its success. The official, state-sponsored Contemporary Art, the art of the great International Cultural Organizations, goes hand-in-hand with the high capitalism of merchants and financiers, and with the “philanthropic” Great Foundations that derive therefrom. Foundations for can profit from the Beautiful as from the Ugly. And if the Ugly is more profitable than the Beautiful, they will not hesitate for a second. They can even make you believe that ugly is beautiful. And while waiting for your conversion, they make you believe that it is legitimate and above all supremely intelligent. Because the more the potential buyer gapes open-mouthed at the Work of Art, the deeper he will open his wallet.
As for the general public: "we can make people swallow anything" said Marcel Duchamp. Yes, it's true. Not necessarily that "people swallow anything", but certainly that people do not dare to criticize and condemn the "anything". Be Soft, be Zen, in the name of Soft and Zen, and fashion, "we can make people swallow anything".