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...

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...

Sporting Guns - Bespoke works of art....

.......for a gun connoisseur.

Engraved Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns - Travel to Gleneagles resort and the Scottish Highlands for Sotheby’s annual sale in August just before the grouse-shooting season. It is here you can find wonderful pieces of engravers art for your collection and upcoming hunt...

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Engraved Game scenes

The gun engraver has a steady hand, perfect eyesight, he is experienced, artistic and extremely skilled to produce the finest works of art.......

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Purdey, Holland & Holland, Woodward & Sons, Boss Co, E.J. Churchill, Rigby, Beretta......a few names to be remembered from the past as well as in present time.

Couleurs d'Afrique...................

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

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Well, just another page in those Journals...Reflections from Senegal....

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"It was once Present in time ..Now - already belonging to the Past...."

."Baobab Tree & Spears"

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Danish Arctic Explorer, Adventurer, Writer and Traveler - Peter Freuchen (1886 - 1957).......

I have experienced the arctic tundra and the arctic during months of winter darkness as well as in the alps in Europe for survival in the cold during my traveling years, but far from living the life of;

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Peter Freuchen - An Arctic Adventurer and Explorer - He took part in the Danish Expedition to North East Greenland 1906 to 1908, and then several expeditions from 1910 to 1924, often with the famous Polar explorer Knud Rasmussen. Freuchen lived with the Inuits in Thule, Greenland. He established with Knud Rasmussen the exploring station in Thule (1910).

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Peter with his wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale in 1947

Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, was an artist and illustrator for magazines as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar

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Fifteen years of maritime adventures - He hunted seal, walrus, and polar bear on the coast. He took part of hunting on whaling ships and took their culture to heart. For months he lived under winter darkness without seeing the sun. - a remarkable life - an Arctic legend. He served as a governor of the Danish colony at Thule in 1913-20. Further, he wrote 4 books about his arctic memories.

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He founded The Adventurer's Club in Denmark - 1938.

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His last written book - 1957.

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In 1957 Freuchen died of a heart attack in Elmendorf, Alaska - His ashes were spread over the Dundas Mountains in Greenland.