Tag: Art
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Smoke clouds
For many thousands of years volcanoes have on and off erupted in the Taupo Volcanic Zone on New Zealand’s North Island. The eruption that created the Taupo crater lake in its present form happened some 26,500 years ago and is said to have been the largest volcanic eruption on earth in the last 70,000 years. Seeing…
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Colour resonance
In last week’s picture we had a nice example of ‘colour resonance’ and here we have another one, again in Kyoto. Was the first one at Kinkaku-ji, this time it’s in Ginkaku-ji. Even more than last week I suspect the lady here of having dressed in this blouse on purpose, so well it matches the colours…
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What shall I wear today?
“This, or maybe that? No, let’s put on this white blouse today, with the yellow sweater on top.” This is what the girl may have thought in the morning, standing in front of her open wardrobe, before she got dressed and left the house. And there she is then, with her beautiful wealth of black…
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Shades of green in a gentle drizzle
I could tell here almost the same thing as with the photo of last week’s post, be it that we have left Arashiyama and are now in the Kinkaku-ji park in another neighbourhood of Kyoto. Furthermore, as you can see, a gentle drizzle is now filling the air, and that does make a difference. The…
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Shades of green with streaks of yellow
Shades of green with streaks of yellow Encountering a scene of such natural beauty, a painter may feel the urgency to search for his brushes, a poet to weigh the words that come to his mind, while I ….. I take the picture that you are now looking at. We are in Arashiyama, the neighbourhood on…
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The nape of her neck
After having dwelt somewhat in the last two posts on the peculiarities of the female kimono, I would now like to give away why this dress fascinates me so irresistibly. The secret is in the collar. At the back, the kimono shows a graceful dip with a perpendicular, raised collar. Since the rest of the…
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Kimono show
Judging from the number of spectators at the Kimono show on the photo, we can infer that people, including the younger generation, remain intrigued by this classical Japanese dress. (See also last week’s post.) That’s interesting, since it is an attire that conceals more than we are used to these days: except for head and…
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Dream women
Was the opening between the trees of this Japanese garden specially conceived to let me have a look at the two lovely girls that were seated there so nicely framed? Having come closer, I noticed that they were swathed in kimonos, those beautiful, traditional dresses that transform women who wear them into mysterious, almost unapproachable…
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Leonardo between the Sunday painters
Krakow is the proud owner of a real oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine. So maybe it shouldn’t surprise us to find a copy or reproduction of it in this open air stall in Krakow. It’s hanging there in the middle – even in duplicate -, unpretentiously hidden between work of…
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Where is Mandela?
I am not particularly keen on paying attention to the news of the day in this blog, but today, when the remains of what once was Nelson Mandela are carried to the grave, I do feel tempted. The world of man doesn’t know many like him. Maybe it’s also the vivid memory of my own…
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