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April 15, 2016 · New York, NY · a morning walk through the Flatiron District
Polaroid 680 with expired 600 film (dated 2008)
Polaroid Week 2016, day 2
"The Fifth Season " René Magritte, 1943 ; Oil on Canvas
Art Movement : Surrealism
Magritte Museum - Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The painting presents two bowler-hatted artists crossing paths,or is it the same artist coming and going at the same time ...?
"All that I desire is to be enriched by intensely exciting new thoughts." René Magritte
The Fifth Season offers a new understanding of Magritte’s special position in the history of 20th-century art.His Art challenges the observer's perceptions of reality.Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.When we look at a painting,we wonder about what is imagined and what is real.Is it about the reality of appearances or the appearance of reality? The painter himself gave the best answer :
"What’s genuinely real,there’s only a certain time when we get that feeling.And that’s what I try to express with my paintings."
René Magritte
The Belgian Surrealist René Magritte (1898–1967) was one of the most intriguing painters associated with the iconic Surrealist style.He balanced philosophy and fantasy to illuminate the gaps between what we see and what we know. His artful paradoxes reawaken age-old questions about what the senses apprehend,
what awareness and reflection contribute,and how we know.How do we understand and experience reality? How can painting help us contend with the ambiguities that surround us? Can art reflect these uncertain relationships in the world? Magritte’s work opened up these questions and many more that are still being examined.He playfully explored new styles,but his painting remained consistent in its cautionary message not to equate the observable world with the paradoxes within reality.
- For the Art Lovers -The painting next to "The Fifth Season" is :
"Flame" René Magritte, 1943 - Oil on Canvas, Surrealism
Beautiful painting!What connotations does "Flame" have for you? Any optimistic interpretations ? Alas.To me,Flame in a densely treed area reminds me of wildfires and the vicious circle that climate change worsens fires and fires worsen climate change.
PS : The Painter's' Insight into the Future
Posted for the Beginning of the Meteorological summer
June 1, 2019 in Northern Hemisphere and the observable effects of Global Climate Change.
Most Art in our current moment stands to address Climate Change in order to resonate deeply in our collective consciousness.Earth is changing face,we are under constant pressure of imminent disaster as our world is plagued by extended periods of climate disarray.It feels as if we should be prepared for "The Fifth Season ....
"I think we are responsible for the universe,but that doesn't mean we decide anything." Rene Magritte
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Fifth Element is one of the movies I’ll watch over and over again.
I’ve been working on this taxi from the movie for quite a long time and finished it today. Difficulty in getting the right parts (and learning a few things about some popular Bricklink sellers), a mishap that caused me to order a new set of stickers, plus this is a fragile model and has come apart more than once. But it’s done and as soon as I find the minifigs I bought to go with it…
Plans and stickers by Brickmania
Parts from Bricklink
Minifigs from minifigs.me
A rare sight - Fifth Avenue virtually empty! NYC was forecast for an historic blizzard, but the storm veered off and we got just a modest amount of snow. But in preparation, the city had instituted a motorist ban (except emergency vehicles) and shut down the subway system. So a rare sight indeed as this is usually nonstop heavy traffic.
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Driving by this street from a main avenue, I would get a glance of the lamposts and the brick roadway. I finally checked it out and took this shot.
City Gate is a gate located at the entrance of Valletta, Malta. The present gate, which is the fifth one to have stood on the site, was built between 2011 and 2014 to designs of the Italian architect Renzo Piano.
The first gate which stood on the site was Porta San Giorgio, which was built in 1569 to designs of either Francesco Laparelli or Girolamo Cassar. The gate was renamed Porta Reale (Maltese: Putirjal) in around 1586, before being rebuilt in 1633, probably to designs of Tommaso Dingli. It was briefly renamed Porte Nationale during the French occupation of Malta in 1798, but its name reverted to Porta Reale when Malta fell under British rule in 1800. In 1853, this was once again replaced by a larger gate, which was also known as Kingsgate or Kingsway. These first three gates were all fortified, forming part of Valletta's city walls. The gate was also informally called the Porta di terra (meaning "land gate") since it was the only landward approach to the city.
The last fortified gate was demolished in 1964, being replaced by a Futurist gate designed by Alziro Bergonzo. This gate was then demolished in 2011, and it was replaced by Piano's gate which was completed in 2014.
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song: Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment - Rememory (Ologist 4K Remix)
Dear icelandic yule lad, Pot Scraper.
When you come to my house there will be scrap of herring salad with beets and apples for you. But if you are really hungry you can have my big remains from yesterday.
An advertisement from National Museum in Reykjavik, Iceland:
¨Pot Scraper arrives at the National Museum on 16 December at 11am. Pot Scraper is expected on 16 December. He is also sometimes called Pot Licker since in the old days he waited to snatch away the pots that had not been washed and licked the food remains from the insides.
Pottasleikir, Pot Scraper, the fifth one,
was a funny sort of chap.
When kids were given scrapings,
he'd come to the door and tap.
And they would rush to see
if there really was a guest.
Then he hurried to the pot
and had a scraping fest."
Hlif
at the Pond, Tjörnin in Reykjavik
Fifth from last of the wavebreaker series.
And this time I am serious.
Have yourself a magnificent Monday.
The fifth and last picture that invokes memories; or , possibly, feelings of another place and time. It's how I remember the countryside as a child; or rather, how I remember pictures of the coutryside when I was a child - muted colours, grey, washed-out skies, defunct hedges, long forgotten fences, wind strained trees and sheep. Though this example lacks some of the features listed, for me, it still carries the same feelings. This is what old photographs can do to your memories - to your memories of memories: they replace the bright sunshine, vibrant colours of nature and the sense of freedom of being out in the countryside.
And here I am, perpetuating and even exacerbating the problem.
At the end of the fifth instar larval stage, this caterpillar wraps a thread of silk around itself, like a utility pole climbing belt, and pupates. Far more attractive than its previous instars, which earned it the descriptive name “bird poop caterpillar”, it will harden into a pupa molt or chrysalis that resembles a sci-fi alien being or invading body snatcher. After a metamorphosis of about two weeks, a strikingly beautiful citrus swallowtail butterfly emerges.