[FRIAM] In the garden of beasts

[Barry MacKichan]

I have been struck by some of the photos of the protests around the 
country (and the world). In a lot of them there are large murals on the 
sides of buildings with pretty good renderings of George Floyd. These 
have gone up in a matter of days, and artists are quite good.

Long live the fumes of linseed oil!

On 3 Jun 2020, at 14:24, Jochen Fromm wrote:

> Today during my weekly excercise in the central park of Berlin, our 
> Tiergarten (literally "animal garden" or "garden of beasts") where I 
> go jogging 2 or 3 times a week I met a young lady which was creating 
> an outdoor oil painting of the park. She had numerous colorful paint 
> brushes and an easel which she was using to create a beautiful image 
> of the surrounding nature. The park is in the center of the city and 
> has a long history, from the time of Napoleon to Hitler [1]. 
> Napoleon's original hat is in the German historical museum a few km 
> apart, and the German president resides here too, but this young lady 
> chose to paint nature. Every time I came across, usually I do 3 rounds 
> of about 3 km, she had finished another part of the painting. I like 
> this raw creativity, and no matter how far our technology advances 
> [2], this kind of manual art and raw creativity will always have a 
> certain appeal to humans. We have for instance a startup called 
> "ArtNight" in Berlin which organizes events where people can learn how 
> to paint like "Van Gogh" or how to create a sunset 
> imagehttps://www.artnight.com/berlin/-J.[1] "In the Garden of Beasts: 
> Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik 
> Larson[2] "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological 
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