“It is spirit, not painting” Makoto Aida Makoto Aida’s work “Harakiri School Girls” is a composition that recurs in the
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Κατηγορία: country-specific
Thomas Schütte’s “Großer Geist Nr. 13”
Geist can mean zeitgeist, the Holy Spirit, a powerful mind, clergyman or ghost, and is used to describe the science
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Fried lamb offal with yogurt and spicy aubergine
This is a dish that I love. It is simple, easy, and tasty. But it requires fresh high quality lamb
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Thomas Schutte’s “United Enemies”
Thomas Schutte is one of my favourite modern sculptors. Back in 2012 I visited his exhibition “Faces and Figures” in
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Fragments of Hoelderlin’s “In lieblicher Blaue – In lovely blueness”
“In lieblicher Blaue” is one of Hoelderlin’s last poems. I have selected fragments of the poem and present them with
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Chillida: Gruss an (Hommage à) Heidegger
Δοκεί δε μέτα τι είναι και χαλεπόν ληφθήναι ο τόπος “It appears, however, to be something overwhelming and hard to
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muddle through
muddle through: to manage to do something although you are not organized and do not know how to do it
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Woman Combing/Braiding/Arranging/Caressing her Hair
Originally published in 2009. Revised on 28 May 2024. This is a post about pictures depicting a woman / women
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Tokyo Story – μια ταινία του Yasujirō Ozu
Ξαναείδα μετά από πολλά χρόνια την κινηματογραφική ταινία Tokyo Story (東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari) του Γιαπωνέζου σκηνοθέτη Yasujirō Ozu που κυκλοφόρησε
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Ηδονή ή λογικότητα; – Pleasure or Logic?
Ποια είναι η πηγή της ανθρώπινης ευδαιμονίας; Η ηδονή ή η λογικότητα; Το ερώτημα απασχόλησε τους Έλληνες και τους Ρωμαίους
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