AdamSmith Posted November 13, 2017 Posted November 13, 2017 Little Gidding T.S. Eliot ... V What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. And every phrase And sentence that is right (where every word is at home, Taking its place to support the others, The word neither diffident nor ostentatious, An easy commerce of the old and the new, The common word exact without vulgarity, The formal word precise but not pedantic, The complete consort dancing together) Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, Every poem an epitaph. And any action Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start. We die with the dying: See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them. The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree Are of equal duration. A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel History is now and England. With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. The Little Gidding is the last of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. For a good biographical site on Eliot and some analysis of his poetry, go to the Academy of American Poet's website. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/winter/w3206/edit/tseliotlittlegidding.html [Emphases inserted by yer umble redactor AS.] MsAnn 1
AdamSmith Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 Und the black humor inserted -- by him? -- into the TV-broadcast preparations for his resignation speech. ...Actually, come to think, one of the few instances where one felt he might actually be human!...
Members MsAnn Posted November 16, 2017 Members Posted November 16, 2017 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rare-painting-leonardo-da-vinci-auctioned-york-051045114.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews Christ painting by Leonardo da Vinci sells for record $450M NEW YORK (AP) -- A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at auction on Wednesday, obliterating previous records for artworks sold at auction or privately. The painting, called "Salvator Mundi," Italian for "Savior of the World," is one of fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo known to exist and the only one in private hands. It was sold by Christie's auction house, which didn't immediately identify the buyer. The highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction had been $179.4 million (152 million euros), for Picasso's "Women of Algiers (Version O)" in May 2015, also at Christie's in New York. The highest known sale price for any artwork had been $300 million (253 million euros), for Willem de Kooning's "Interchange," sold privately in September 2015 by the David Geffen Foundation to hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin. A backer of the "Salvator Mundi" auction had guaranteed a bid of at least $100 million (85 million euros), the opening bid of the auction, which ran for 19 minutes. The price hit $300 million about halfway through the bidding. People in the auction house gallery applauded and cheered when the bidding reached $300 million and when the hammer came down on the final bid, $400 million. The record sale price of $450 million includes the buyer's premium, a fee paid by the winner to the auction house. The 26-inch-tall (66-centimeter-tall) Leonardo painting dates from around 1500 and shows Christ dressed in Renaissance-style robes, his right hand raised in blessing as his left hand holds a crystal sphere. Its path from Leonardo's workshop to the auction block at Christie's was not smooth. Once owned by King Charles I of England, it disappeared from view until 1900, when it resurfaced and was acquired by a British collector. At that time it was attributed to a Leonardo disciple, rather than to the master himself. The painting was sold again in 1958 and then acquired in 2005, badly damaged and partly painted-over, by a consortium of art dealers who paid less than $10,000 (8,445 euros). The art dealers restored the painting and documented its authenticity as a work by Leonardo. The painting was sold Wednesday by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who bought it in 2013 for $127.5 million (108 million euros) in a private sale that became the subject of a continuing lawsuit. Christie's says most scholars agree that the painting is by Leonardo, though some critics have questioned the attribution and some say the extensive restoration muddies the work's authorship. Christie's capitalized on the public's interest in Leonardo, considered one of the greatest artists of all time, with a media campaign that labeled the painting "The Last Da Vinci." The work was exhibited in Hong Kong, San Francisco, London and New York before the sale. In New York, where no museum owns a Leonardo, art lovers lined up outside Christie's Rockefeller Center headquarters on Tuesday to view "Salvator Mundi." Svetla Nikolova, who is from Bulgaria but lives in New York, called the painting "spectacular." "It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience," she said. "It should be seen. It's wonderful it's in New York. I'm so lucky to be in New York at this time."
Members MsAnn Posted November 16, 2017 Members Posted November 16, 2017 10 minutes ago, Larstrup said: Always brilliant!!! And just what the doctor ordered tonight... AdamSmith 1
Guest Larstrup Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 41 minutes ago, Larstrup said: There’s no video to this audio because I was too young to be where I was and what I was doing but……Walking to the subway in the middle of winter and realizing that When I got on the subway my jeans which were soaking wet from dancing all night were frozen solid against my thighs. Those were the good ole days. There’s no video from Dugans bistro from that time and knowing what we know today I’m so happy about that! I only have two words: tequila sunrise!
AdamSmith Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 2 hours ago, MsAnn said: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rare-painting-leonardo-da-vinci-auctioned-york-051045114.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews Christ painting by Leonardo da Vinci sells for record $450M NEW YORK (AP) -- A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at auction on Wednesday, obliterating previous records for artworks sold at auction or privately. The painting, called "Salvator Mundi," Italian for "Savior of the World," is one of fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo known to exist and the only one in private hands. It was sold by Christie's auction house, which didn't immediately identify the buyer.
AdamSmith Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 3 hours ago, MsAnn said: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rare-painting-leonardo-da-vinci-auctioned-york-051045114.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews Christ painting by Leonardo da Vinci sells for record $450M NEW YORK (AP) -- A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at auction on Wednesday, obliterating previous records for artworks sold at auction or privately. The painting, called "Salvator Mundi," Italian for "Savior of the World," is one of fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo known to exist and the only one in private hands. It was sold by Christie's auction house, which didn't immediately identify the buyer. The highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction had been $179.4 million (152 million euros), for Picasso's "Women of Algiers (Version O)" in May 2015, also at Christie's in New York. The highest known sale price for any artwork had been $300 million (253 million euros), for Willem de Kooning's "Interchange," sold privately in September 2015 by the David Geffen Foundation to hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin. A backer of the "Salvator Mundi" auction had guaranteed a bid of at least $100 million (85 million euros), the opening bid of the auction, which ran for 19 minutes. The price hit $300 million about halfway through the bidding. People in the auction house gallery applauded and cheered when the bidding reached $300 million and when the hammer came down on the final bid, $400 million. The record sale price of $450 million includes the buyer's premium, a fee paid by the winner to the auction house. The 26-inch-tall (66-centimeter-tall) Leonardo painting dates from around 1500 and shows Christ dressed in Renaissance-style robes, his right hand raised in blessing as his left hand holds a crystal sphere. Its path from Leonardo's workshop to the auction block at Christie's was not smooth. Once owned by King Charles I of England, it disappeared from view until 1900, when it resurfaced and was acquired by a British collector. At that time it was attributed to a Leonardo disciple, rather than to the master himself. The painting was sold again in 1958 and then acquired in 2005, badly damaged and partly painted-over, by a consortium of art dealers who paid less than $10,000 (8,445 euros). The art dealers restored the painting and documented its authenticity as a work by Leonardo. The painting was sold Wednesday by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who bought it in 2013 for $127.5 million (108 million euros) in a private sale that became the subject of a continuing lawsuit. Christie's says most scholars agree that the painting is by Leonardo, though some critics have questioned the attribution and some say the extensive restoration muddies the work's authorship. Christie's capitalized on the public's interest in Leonardo, considered one of the greatest artists of all time, with a media campaign that labeled the painting "The Last Da Vinci." The work was exhibited in Hong Kong, San Francisco, London and New York before the sale. In New York, where no museum owns a Leonardo, art lovers lined up outside Christie's Rockefeller Center headquarters on Tuesday to view "Salvator Mundi." Svetla Nikolova, who is from Bulgaria but lives in New York, called the painting "spectacular." "It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience," she said. "It should be seen. It's wonderful it's in New York. I'm so lucky to be in New York at this time." Art critical consensus is that this naively flat Greek Orthodox Christos-typos pastiche could not possibly have come from the hand of Leonardo. All of his known religious portraits have the human figure in twisted 3D, indeed '4D' (pictorially incorporating the time dimension of turning in space!) portrayal. And then the literal depiction of the hand holding, therefore underneath, the crystal globe is a scientific illiteracy that Leonardo would never have committed. He was the first modern European to derive the laws of optics of refractive materials, documented in detailed equations and hundreds of sketches in his Notebooks. He would never have painted that hand shown through the medium of the globe without noting in loving visual detail all of the distortions the crystal medium would have imposed. ...One of the most moving museum exhibits I've ever been privileged to view... Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2003/leonardo-da-vinci MsAnn 1
