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'Humankind cannot bear very much reality' -T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Entrance to Sterkfontein Caves - The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind, 14 March 2010.

Sterkfontein Caves - The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind visitors' centre, South Africa

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind visitors' centre, South Africa

Plant outside of Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa

Silhouette man jumps to survive from coronavirus, COVID-19. The concept of humankind must overcome this epidemic crisis. Fight and escape from Covid with hope

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Robinson Crusoe - Credit: Callum Thompson

Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind visitors' centre, South Africa

Oil on canvas

 

This remarkably bold oil sketch of a Cullercoats scene was likely produced after Homer's return to the US. (At Cullercoats, he painted almost exclusively in watercolour) Homer deeply admired the local volunteer lifesaving crews that he witnessed in action there. Here, the rescue team anticipates their encounter with a roiling sea. Broadly painted and pared down to essential details, this depiction of imminent danger echoes Homer's Civil War paintins such as Sharpshooter and Defiance.

[National Gallery]

 

Taken in the Exhibition

  

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

(September 2022 – January 2023)

 

[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.

Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.

From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.

After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.

Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.

With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.

[National Gallery]

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."

 

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#196 in a series for one photo a day for a year

 

Oil on canvas

 

In Homer's last canvas, a lone protagonist attempts to collect a large piece of driftwood that has been carried to the rocky shore at Prouts Neck. The man's task seems futile. Seen from behind, he is a surrogate not only for the artist facing death, but also for the many sailors Homer depicted confronting the enduring power of nature over the years. Homer died in his Prouts Neck studio in September 1910, at the age of 74.

[National Gallery]

 

Taken in the Exhibition

  

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

(September 2022 – January 2023)

 

[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.

Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.

From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.

After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.

Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.

With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.

[National Gallery]

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind visitors' centre, South Africa

Last Day in S.A. - Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng, South Africa. Pictures from the Cradle of Humankind "Museum"

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind visitors' centre, South Africa

Oil on canvas

 

In Homer's last canvas, a lone protagonist attempts to collect a large piece of driftwood that has been carried to the rocky shore at Prouts Neck. The man's task seems futile. Seen from behind, he is a surrogate not only for the artist facing death, but also for the many sailors Homer depicted confronting the enduring power of nature over the years. Homer died in his Prouts Neck studio in September 1910, at the age of 74.

[National Gallery]

 

Taken in the Exhibition

  

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

(September 2022 – January 2023)

 

[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.

Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.

From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.

After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.

Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.

With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.

[National Gallery]

At the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve in the Cradle of Humankind

Gauteng, South Africa '11

  

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface, safely delivering Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin — the first humans to land on the moon. The Swiss Solar Wind Composition Experiment, of the University of Bern and the Swiss National Science Foundation, was the only non-American experiment to be part of the Apollo landings. Where do we stand after 50 years, and where are we headed? We gathered with astronauts, scientists, and artists to discuss the past, the future, and our inspiration for the unknown space.

 

This event was a collaboration of the Consulate General of Switzerland’s Swiss Touch campaign with swissnex San Francisco and the Exploratorium, and presented as part of swissnex San Francisco’s SciComm Studio series.

 

PHOTOS BY BARAK SHRAMA FOR THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF SWITZERLAND IN SAN FRANCISCO / SWISSNEX SF

Robinson Crusoe - Credit: Callum Thompson

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind visitors' centre, South Africa

Oil on canvas

 

Later in life, Homer increasingly edited his paintings. In 1895, when he first exhibited this epic scene of a winter storm at Prouts Neck, it included two figures crouching on the rocks in the lower left corner. Between 1896 and 1900, he eliminated the human presence and intensified the spreay from the crashing waves.

[National Gallery]

 

Taken in the Exhibition

  

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

(September 2022 – January 2023)

 

[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.

Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.

From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.

After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.

Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.

With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.

[National Gallery]

Oil on canvas

 

A sailor faces possible death on a distressed boat. A ship on the horizon allows for the possibility of rescue. Splayed across the deck are stalks of sugarcane, a commodity central to the economy of empire. The swift ocean current of the title enabled both the trade of sugar and the devastating history of transatlantic slavery. Studied, interpreted and reinterpreted by critics and artists, The Gulf Stream has become a modern icon of Black imagery.

[National Gallery]

 

Taken in the Exhibition

  

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

(September 2022 – January 2023)

 

[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.

Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.

From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.

After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.

Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.

With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.

[National Gallery]

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind visitors' centre, South Africa

Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind visitors' centre, South Africa

  

Humankind's most urgent task is to preserve nature for future generations.

 

Green is the predominant color in nature, and today it's often associated with environmentally-friendly choices and lifestyles.

 

Take action to reduce global warming. There are many, many things you can do to minimize the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Basically, the less we depend on fossil fuels, the better!

 

Stop using disposable bags. Order some reusable bags.

 

Grow your own food. If you have access to some land, maybe you can Practice Sustainable Agriculture. If all you have is a balcony, you can still grow things like beans and peas, tomatoes, and herbs in pots.

 

Wash laundry in cold water instead of hot.

 

Turn off lights when you leave the room.Don’t turn on lights at all for as long as you can open your curtains and enjoy natural light.

 

Drive the speed limit, and combine all your errands for the week in one trip.

Reduce, reuse, and recycle! In a consumerist society, it can be difficult go for even a day without buying anything.

 

" There's a point in our lives where changes is necessary we have to learn to let go of what is familiar And take a leap of faith Trusting that in no time we'll feel at home with the unfamiliar ".

 

Excursion to the Cradle of Humankind, organised by Verney College for matrics and grade 11s

A big up to Mr. Rob Brezsny who connects us with these marvelous and inspiring words of wisdom. Weekly astrology newsletter. freewillastrology.com

 

"Possibilities for salvation do exist. They are beyond our conventional thinking patterns and our conventional forms of discussion but they areas real as a wireless Internet or a Hubble telescope in space. All that is possible for humankind to achieve in the technological sphere is also possible in the social, ecological and spiritual sphere. The intelligence that was capable of developing electronic weapons is equally capable -- if focused differently -- of developing systems of non-violent co-habitation."

- Dieter Duhm

 

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Brush and watercolour, black chalk on heavy white wove paper

 

Here, Homer studied details he would include in The Gulf Stream. By placing brightly coloured stalks of sugarcane at the centre of his composition and writing that 'the subject of this picture is comprised in its title', Homer may be referring obliquely to the institution of slavery. Sugar was a central commodity in the triangular trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Gulf Stream current played an essential role in both transporting it and in the trafficking of enslaved people.

[National Gallery]

 

Taken in the Exhibition

  

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

(September 2022 – January 2023)

 

[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.

Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.

From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.

After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.

Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.

With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.

[National Gallery]

Rear of The Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, SA.

Grupo de artistas americanos na comunidade dos pesadelos.

Oil on canvas

 

This remarkably bold oil sketch of a Cullercoats scene was likely produced after Homer's return to the US. (At Cullercoats, he painted almost exclusively in watercolour) Homer deeply admired the local volunteer lifesaving crews that he witnessed in action there. Here, the rescue team anticipates their encounter with a roiling sea. Broadly painted and pared down to essential details, this depiction of imminent danger echoes Homer's Civil War paintins such as Sharpshooter and Defiance.

[National Gallery]

 

Taken in the Exhibition

  

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

(September 2022 – January 2023)

 

[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.

Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.

From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.

After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.

Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.

With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.

[National Gallery]

Every year on 18 April, The humankind celebrates the “International Day for Monuments and Sites”, which was approved by the 22nd UNESCO General Conference in 1983.

The International Day aims to encourage visiting Monuments and Sites in local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives, identities, promoting awareness of how to protect and conserve the antiquities.

According to UNESCO World Heritage list, there are 981 monuments; Egypt in this list has 7 sites:

Abu Mena

Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis

Historic Cairo

Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur

Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae

Saint Catherine Area

Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)

The photos show Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur, precisely The Pyramid of Djoser (or Zoser), or step pyramid which is located in the Saqqara necropolis. It was built during the 27th century BC for the burial of Pharaoh Djoser. Zoser Pyramid is considered the first Egyptian pyramid consisted of six mastabas built atop one another in what were clearly revisions and developments of the original plan.

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