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WORDS RELATING TO FEELINGS:

Gula: Spanish for the desire to eat simply for the taste

Sobremesa: Spanish for when the food has finished but the conversation is still flowing

Mbukimvuki: Bantu for “to shuck of one’s clothes in order to dance”

Schnapsidee: German for coming up with an ingenious plan when drunk

Volta: Greek for leisurely strolling the streets

WORDS RELATING TO RELATIONSHIPS:

Nakama: Japanese for friends who one considers like family

Kanyininpa: Aboriginal Pintupi for a relationship between holder and held, akin to the deep nurturing feelings experienced by a parent for their child

Gigil: Philippine Tagalog for the irresistible urge to pinch or squeeze someone because you love them so much

Kilig: Tagalog for the butterflies in the stomach you get when interacting with someone you find attractive

Sarang: Korean for when you wish to be with someone until death

WORDS RELATING TO CHARACTER:

Sitzfleisch: German for the ability to persevere through hard or boring tasks (literally “sit meat”)

Baraka: Arabic for a gift of spiritual energy that can be passed from one person to another

Jugaad: Hindi for the ability to get by or make do

Desenrascanco: Portuguese for the ability to artfully disentangle oneself from a troublesome situation

Sprezzatura: Italian for when all art and effort are concealed beneath a “studied carelessness”

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Carlos Cruz aka Conehorror (Brazilian, b. Santos, São Paulo, Brazil) - 350x, 2013 Photography

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A terminal patient enjoys Rembrandt paintings at the Rijskmuseum, Amsterdam, one final time. Photo credit: unknown.

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Analia Saban. Decant White #1. Encaustic Paint on Canvas. 2011.

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Analia Saban

Cover , 2011 Acrylic paint on and off canvas

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“Study of madness" - Mixed media on heavy paper ( oil, acrylic, collage), 18,5 x 26 cm.

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Something Artistic Blog ‘Misunderstanding Focus’, 27 Quivering Portraits by… via Tumblr

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Anthony Cudahy

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Inserirefloppino aka Marco Migani (b. 1983, Rimini, Italy) - F 2, 2011 Collages

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Various artists / knives

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, the janitorial staff at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art destroyed over 60 student works, slashing canvases with knives and stomping on them to break their stretchers before tossing them into a dumpster in the school’s courtyard.

Though the responsible parties’ identities remain unclear, their motivation seems to have been retaliation in response to students’ disregard for school storage policies: For years, students were permitted to store finished works in the school’s hallways due to insufficient space. Recently, however, due to recently-tightened fire regulations, a two-week maximum was placed on the amount of time works could be left there - a regulation which many students had apparently ignored, leading the janitorial staff’s actions in response.

Upon finding their works destroyed, many students retrieved the canvases and returned them to the hallway in protest.