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... really love my photo ...
just coincidentally taken with my cheap smartphone camera while passing
... by ...
? can you grasp the symbolic / metaphoric dimension of it ?
and
? could you imagine a more appropriate "view" on this very theme called redemption ?
: well personally as far as I am concerned :
! deeply religious !
by virtue of education rather than blessed by belief
... it is about faith here ...
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(painting by the by the Spaniard Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: title: John the Baptist as a youth)
(painting by the Englishman Joshua Reynolds: title: the infant (prophet) Samuel)
(Protestant Indigenous European)
and
apart from the linked video
I'd like to draw your attention to some (more) visual arts masterpieces at this point
capturing a common
: theme :
not (Christian) faith itself
but how it reflects on people
(drawing by the Italian Bernardo Strozzi)
(panting by the Scotsman George Harvay)
(painting by the Pole Jan Tysiewicz)
(drawings by the Frenchman Gustave Doré)
: and a special theme :
! confessions !
if it is about the Orthodox Christian confession, I'd like to to present you some of my favourite painters, the Russian/Ukrainian
(Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин, and Ілля Юхимович, respectively)
the Russian painter
(Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Перо́в)
(titled: dispute (raskol) among those sticking to the traditional rites (Old Believers) and those eager to abandon)
and
the Russian painter
Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov
(Илларио́н Миха́йлович Пря́нишников)
(Slavic faces)
if it is about Roman Catholicism
we see a "divine obsession" manifested in relentless attempts over the centuries to preserve the pure doctrine
pictured by the famous Spanish painter
(along with Vincent van Gogh's - a most fascinating self-portrait)
and about the Roman Catholic denomination as such
see the pretty unknown Austrian painters
(Celtic faces)
and the Viennese
(titled: the Last Rites / Extreme Unction)
if it is about the Lutheran Protestant denomination
see another rather unknown painter, from Norway
(Germanic faces)
and
an unknown American illustrator
(Afro-American faces)
! all paintings and drawings - except of the "Strozzi", "Murillo" and "Goya" - are from mid-19th century !
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◐ in contrary ◑
I
further would like to draw your attention to
: the opposite :
deliberate faithlessness
: expressed in a confession of apostasy :
motivated by sheer experience and conviction: Hineini 'Here I am'
Leonard Cohen
(Canadian)
!!! an interpretor 'without a voice", along with a superb lyrical tonal setting, if there is any appropriate circumscription of the word Weltschmerz, you 'll find it here !!!
motivated by mere irony
Steven Patrick Morrissey
(Irish/English)
as I've to plainly state it : I love this lyrics endlessly
as I do this : this as I do
↓ ↓ ↓
motivated by hate, alcoholism and looming despair
(American)
as I do this : this as I do
↓ ↓ ↓
motivated by disappointment, loneliness, lovelessness and hopelessness
(English)
(for this one, sung by Frankie Miller, Scottish, turn up the volume: It's only Rock 'n Roll (Rhythm 'n' Blues) but I like it)
... Paul Kossoff better than anybody else among his peers ...
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- except of Jimi Hendrix probably -
(American)
? not to forget ?
! Johnny Winter - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Frank Zappa !
...
↓ ↓ ↓
" the "
...
('me' in the middle)
! American family !
!! that I love so pretty damn well ever since I was a young kid !!
(all three of the photos are from the early Seventies)
American lower middle class family 'Cobain', 'Vaughan' and Central Western European lower middle class family 'Eulenhaupt' share something in common
I
guess
! lower middle classes were very, very present still in the pre-neoliberal/pre-neoconservative era, that is, the late Fifties until the early Eighties !
(American) (American) (American)
ever liked Johnny Winter and his brother Edgar, definitely, not a kind of personality, that one may expect to qualify for attending a fucked up Deutsche Bank assessment center, no come on, stupid, never ever
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... knew how to express real feelings by means of an electric guitar ...
who remembers his
? name ?
I
! do !
! very well I do !
"Back Street Crawler"
reads the title of the
↑ linked ↑
Kossoff portrait
!! a title and a photo I consider charming !!
_absolutely_
as it
superbly reflects my own identity
(the band-member I liked most was the bassist Andy Fraser - at Paul Kossoff's right hand site on the photo depicting a trip to Amsterdam)
as an elder child - juvenile - and young adult
motivated by a fight against insidious insanity
Roger "Syd" Barrett
(English)
motivated by sheer desperation
Johnny Cash
(American)
(originated by Nick Cave)
... and ...
again
?! with or without a "hand " of a "third" !?
(if you know what I mean in the context of the very current magic bubble)
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driven by the fear of imminent death
motivated by a final need to communicate
David Bowie
(English)
(you know the tale of Lazarus, no, you do? If you do, you will be able to grasp this soul-gripping visualization of that story even better)
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: as you may have noticed already :
! this experience of art in cyberspace you are encountering right now is following a dialectical approach !
i.e.
trying to figure out antagonisms in a - merely subjective - attempt to lay bare the nature of
"things"
because
it is my very conviction that religions - not only those originating in the *semi* deserts of the Mid-East - make (human) life appear as to be a kind of
return ticket
("death where is your sting - where is your sting death")
meanwhile
evidence available indicates
a kind of
Boney M
(Jamaican/Dominican)
(originated by Paul Sedaka)
Bluesiana
Triangle
(American)
(from Rhythm 'n' Blues - "Soul-Disco" - back to good old Jazz)
↓ ↓ ↓
and
bloody awesome good old Blues - Blues old good awesome bloody
... funky funk funky ...
(-; back door men on a one way - ticket - a one way ticket on back door men ;-)
I see myself in New Orleans somewhere - although - I've never been there and probably never will
» one foot 's on the platform the other foot 's on the train «
↓ ↓ ↓
! just some kind of imagination - imagination encircles the world !
... ... ...
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