"De l'aube à midi sur la mer"

"Jeux de vagues" 

"Dialogue du vent et de la mer" 

La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre

Claude Debussy

A Philosophical Writer, Painter, and Poet - Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962).......

German-Swiss writer Hermann Hesse, born in Calw, Germany,awarded the Nobel Prize for "the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency" in literature. Determined in early age "to be a poet or nothing" He did undertake psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology. His work found a new dimension reflected in; Demian (1919), Steppenwolf (1927), and Siddhartha (1922) -.... this book was an inspiration for me when I read it as a teenager ....Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. ...one day years later after I had left my family home on my journeys...back for a short visit - I found an inscription in the book from my father...his reflection , perhaps an understanding.......

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We can easily follow the influence of Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Buddhist mysticism and clearly find his journey into the inner self. His opinion of that man must express himself in order to find his own nature. A man of great intellect who followed his own path in life.

His grandfather had a deep interest in Far Eastern culture, and religion - this and the large family library inspired Hesse at an early age. Hesse traveled to the East in 1932. He moved to Switzerland in 1912, of which he became a naturalized citizen in 1923.

An Eccentric - Eccentric - Eccentric - Rebel - 7th Marquess of Bath

Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath was born in 1932 - an eccentric and rather colorful Lord. He was educated at Eton. Art was close to his heart already when he was a young man. He studied under Wilfred Blunt, Oliver Thomas and Gerald Leet at Eton.

In Paris - he joined the art scene of the legendary La Rive Gauche - the "Left Bank". The old era of artists has always been connected with the Left Bank - Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Henri Matisse, Nancy Cunard, Anais Nin, Gertrude Stein...here the life style of bohemians - writers, philosophers,photographers, poets, and artists...can be seen an lived....Atmosphere - fill your soul - Boulevard Saint Germain des Pré's....

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Longleat - 1675 - Artist - Jan Siberechts

On the death of his father in 1992 he (Viscount Weymouth) became the 7th Marquess of Bath and took control of Longleat House a very attractive stately home which, is set within 900 acres of magnificent landscaped parkland with a further 8000 acres of nature.

His life..... art, writing, and music....

which, you can follow througout his life in his paintings and writings. You can experience his murals entitled "keyhole glimpse into my psyche" at Longleat House.

The Red Library at Longleat has approximately 40000 books... for us who like books....

Strictly Private to Public Exposure - his Biography/autobiography consisting of six volumes.

His "Wifelets" that is another story......

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...

Breathe in...Cherish the Day...An "Eyeful of Nature"...

(Photo by Tavarua)

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“Clouds came floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

- Rabindranath Tagore

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The expression of Art from generation to generation - The Academic Art or Impressionism?

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Are we still here to analyze the broadly term Impressionist?

It does state an "Eyeful of Nature" a worldly vision - the facts of Life itself - Now is this just what is accessible for your eye - or is it for the intellectual mind.

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The Old Masters - who I dearly admire - But the progress from generation to generation institutes new ideas...even in the sense and expressions as Picassos old classical works of art to his paintings away from the classical expressions to the simplicity in figures, scenes and fragments of his world.

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The distractions of your mind when the color effect contradicts your senses of reality...although the use of the movements of positive colors could change your mindset from always be an admire of the perfect paintings of the Old Masters....

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Let the colors speak and take on a new Journey of thoughts and combine it with your old world thinking.... the creation of contradiction and beauty can add a new dimension to your life... and maybe to your way of interior design as well...

Gerald Benney (1930-2008)- Silversmith of Contemporary Designs - a master of creating objets d’ arts...

presented at Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, the Victoria and Albert Museum.....Distinguished silversmith to the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen mother and the Prince of Wales. Not to forget that many pieces of his art were private commissions. Benney studied at Brighton College of Art and the Royal College of Art .
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Benney was influenced by the simple purity and minimalism of Scandinavian design which is reflected in his work.

Surface texture - His earliest textured surfaces are from 1956 - this come to signify as his trademark - it had all happened by accident when he one day used a hammer with a damaged head.

He made his own hammers and brought the surface texture to the world of silversmiths....

He worked with Burch-Korrodi, in Zurich, Switzerland in the 1960s - to learn enamelling techniques. These skills had been obtained from Fabergé's craftsmen. Enamel and silver is much harder to process than actually using gold and enamel....due to the different temperatures when they expand.....

...He was a master at work...

Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) ...

Jean Cocteau - French Poet, Artist,Filmmaker,Novelist, and Designer.  His friends - Picasso, Marcel Proust, Andre Gide,A. Modigliani, Diaghilev - Among his friends were some of the most famous people within the artistic circles of his time.

A multi-talented artist, avant-garde filmmaker, eccentric, born into wealth in 1889. He created his own myth - represented as well in his first movie "The Blood of a Poet."

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Jean Cocteau with ceramic plate...

Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1961

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious." - Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau by Amedeo Modigliani

Cocteau - A member of the prestigious Academie Francaise 

(in 1955)...

...45 minutes with my Camera...Instant Moments Captured...Somewhere in Europe....

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

. You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears. - Paul Cezanne

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. .Photography concentrates one’s eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can’t catch that even with the sharpest lens. One has to grope for it by feeling. - Franz Kafka

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Of all forms of expression, photography is the only one which seizes the instant in its flight. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Lifestyles....

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. Sometimes we have to look into the picture - instead of - at the picture to discover the photographers message...

It's no good saying "hold it" to a moment in real life. - Lord Snowdon

. The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. - Henri Cartier-Bresson .

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Photography is nothing--it's life that interests me. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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"Fish-eye"...............