Cultural Crossroads - Istanbul.....

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

New day, New fate.

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The journey is the reward.

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Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written...

Every man must act in the rhythm of his time... such is wisdom...

Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.....

All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature....

A day of travelling will bring a basketful of learning. ....

An evening at Ulus 29 - Istanbul.......

(All photos in this Post by Tavarua)

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a view from the terrace garden at night.....from here you can overlook the Anatolian side...

Traditional and International dishes prepared by foreign Chefs - Ulus 29 is considered one of the leading restaurants in Istanbul .......
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View of the Anatolian side from the inside of the restaurant...

"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." - Voltaire
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My choice this evening - Grilled bluefish....
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...the atmosphere - cosmopolitan....

a very pleasant evening....

dessert ...baklava....

One of the Greatest Magnificent Eclectic Cities on Earth - For more than 2000 Years....

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At the time of King Solomon it was here - Flavored by Byzantine Slave ships, Crusaders, Harems, Exquisite Gardens, Mosques, Palaces,.....Exotic Animals...from tigers, elephants, and lions to rare species of exotic birds...

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Experience the Past - The Bosphorus Shoreline,Sultanahmet, Suleymaniye Mosque, the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia.....

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Located by the Black Sea is the historical center of Istanbul.

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Topkapi Palace, where Ibrahim the Mad and Selim the Sot ruled.

Water pipes and Raki... Mizi Carsis(the Spice Bazaar)...Open Air Markets from Jewelry to fish...

“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.” - Alphonse de Lamartine
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Destination Turkey.......

(Photo by Tavarua)

Autumn - a Park - Nothingness and 12 Pictures......

Autumn.......Each season has its joys to treasure, to lift one's spirits and bring us pleasure.

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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Hope lies in dreams in one's imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality." - Jonas Salk

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."I have always been very interested in photography. I have looked at far more photographs than I have paintings. Because their reality is stronger than reality itself." - Francis Bacon

. "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs." - Susan Sontag

An American Sculptor and Traveler Who Studied and Worked With Auguste Rodin in Paris...

M.H. in her Studio

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A remarkable woman - Malvina Hoffman (1885 - 1966)
She received the Gold Medal of the National Sculpture Society in 1964.Her work is owned by the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Couple Embracing - Bronze Sculpture by M.H.

She grew up in the discipline of art as her father was a solo pianist. She was an extraordinary woman known for her realism, directness, life-size bronze sculptures and...

Russian Dancers - 1911 - M.H.

..her ability for expression and interpretation of movement...She studied with Auguste Rodin - her friendship with the great artist started in 1910.

A commission to complete sculptures of mankind took her on a five-year voyage throughout the world. She made from 1929 to 1935 over 100 sculptures cast in bronze representing The Races of Mankind.

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Anna Pavlova by M.H.

"Dance is the art of speech by means of gesture" - Plato

Anna Pavlova admire her work and especially the breathtaking sculptures of dance...

Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)

M.H. 1920

She had visit Spain and brought with her back the history volumes of Spanish Bullfighting by Cossio and later made eight Bullfighting Sculptures after having studied the anatomy of the Bull: Some of the Pieces were "The Banderillero", "The Moment of Truth","Matador and the Dying Bull, "The Picador" - this composition she had been told in Spain "that it would be impossible to compose this sculpture in three dimensions" - She saw this a great challenge....her accomplishment ended with eight incredable sculptures.....

Madman or Genius ? Philosopher - Poet - Painter - A Life - 1757 to 1827 - A Man with Phenomnal Lucidity....

Newton by William Blake

and Wisdom which came from within - A Swedenborgian - he was hailed by Swinburne, Rossetti and Yeats as the founder of the romantic movement in English Poetry - he bound his own books - he looked within and expressed himself and his ideas in symbolical languages. An extraordinary sensitive Poet. A man by name;

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William Blake...A student at the Royal Academy in 1779 - He rebelled against Rubens which he thought about as unfinished style...

Without nature as a reference he intertwined heaven and earth into visionary truth. Powerful paintings...

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Elohim Creating Adam by William Blake - c. 1795

with fragments from the tombs, old engravings inspired by Raphael and Michael Angelo....

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Pity by William Blake - c.1795

...Mystical state and intense spiritual paintings...

“Without contraries there is no progression.” - William Blake

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Poem - the Tyger by William Blake

Blake's first collection of poems was - Poetical Sketches - published in 1783

His final resting place is at an unmarked grave at Bunhill Fields, London, England...