Remembering the future Princehood

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It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars (via ladyhelenaelizabeth)

[zika-zuleika]

For the first time, it came on me that when a man dies, an unknown world passes away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via ladyhelenaelizabeth)

[nicksyris]

Erotic love, even when expressed coldly without emotional involvement, is an astounding mystery of existence, concealing in the deepest act of communion a tendency towards an ecstatic transcendence of individuality through creation.

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[nicksyris]

The essence of sin is fear of the other

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[nicksyris]

Otherness and the Self (epilogue)

Love is not a feeling or disposition of the “self” towards an “other”.

Rather, it is gift coming from the “other” as an affirmation of one’s uniqueness in an indispensable relation through which one’s particularity is secured ontologically.

Love is the assertion that one exist as “other”, that is, particular and unique, in relation to some “other” who affirms him or her as “other”.

In love, relation generates otherness; it does not threaten it.

“Perfect love casts out fear”. The fear of the Other can only be overcome by love, that is, by acceptance and affirmation by the Other and of the Other as indispensable for our own otherness. 

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Dimitris Tiniakos (1920 - 1997)

Greek painter and poet

[nicksyris]

“A sunset over the Aegean includes sorrow and joy to such equal doses that nothing is left in the end except the truth.”

Odysseas Elytis - “Little Nautilus” XXVII

(photo: Nikos Chatziiakovou)

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George Bouzianis  (November 8, 1885 – October 22, 1959)

Selection from watercolor paintings or aquarelles

[nicksyris]

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

T.S.Eliot

“Murder in the Cathedral”

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Georgios Roilos (Greek: Γεώργιος Ροϊλός; 1867 – 28 August 1928) was one of the most important and influential Greek painters of the late 19th-early 20th century. He belonged to the so-called “Munich School”. His major works include historical topics, portraits, and scenes of everyday life. One of his most famous paintings is “The Poets”, which depicts some of the most important representatives of the New Athenian school of poetry, also known as the Generation of 1880.

[nicksyris]

We have been born once and cannot be born a second time; for all eternity we shall no longer exist. But you, although you are not in control of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness. Life is wasted by delaying and each one of us dies without enjoying leisure.

Epicurus  Greek: Ἐπίκουρος, Epíkouros, “ally, comrade”, 341–270 BC)

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed by the masses.

Plato

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Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. It’s typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. 

The expressionist action in Greece has given appreciable samples, mainly at the period of Bouzianis, where we see the teachings that he has taken from his German colleagues absorbed in a more personal style, but also at the duration of Possession in which the  engravings approach more the work of Germans. Other efforts concern cases of careful imitations of German expressionism or effects of neoimpressionism and fauvism that led to a chromatic expressionism. 

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John Lovett and Water (selection)

Modern watercolor paints are now as durable and colorful as oil or acrylic paints, and the recent renewed interest in drawing and multimedia art has also stimulated demand for fine works in watercolor.

[nicksyris]

As you commemorate the dearest falls of dignity, the remebrance of a glance will suffice and the calculus takes on the venerable face of love

@Mouxlaloudaa (via Twitter)

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So, it rains then, a yellow rain without an end.

Manolis Anagnostakis

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The Cultivation of Tabacco (1960)

A.Tassos (1914-1985) & L.Magiorou (1914-2008)