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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">Long live the fumes of linseed oil!</p>
<p dir="auto">On 3 Jun 2020, at 14:24, Jochen Fromm wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">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 <a href="imagehttps://www.artnight.com/berlin/-J" style="color:#777">imagehttps://www.artnight.com/berlin/-J</a>.[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 Reproducibility" by Walter Benjamin-- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ...<br>
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