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(From the Song of Songs) Version II by Paul Klee, 1921, Guggenheim Museum
Size: 16.2x17.4 cm
Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper, with watercolor on cardboard mount
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2136

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haidaspicciare: Marcello Mastroianni, “8½” (Federico Fellini,...

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haidaspicciare:

Marcello Mastroianni, “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963).

kvetchlandia: William Wegman Man Ray Contemplating the Bust...

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kvetchlandia:

William Wegman Man Ray Contemplating the Bust of Man Ray 1978

kvetchlandia: Willy Ronis Boris Vian, Paris ...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 04:00:19 +0200

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Willy Ronis Boris Vian, Paris c.1956

“Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What’s the point in moving mountains when it’s so simple to climb over them?” Boris Vian

kvetchlandia: Willy Ronis Poet Jacques Prévert,...

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Willy Ronis Poet Jacques Prévert, Tourettes-sur-Loup, France 1942

Notre Père qui êtes au cieux
Restez-y
Et nous nous resterons sur la terre
Qui est quelquefois si jolie
Avec ses mystères de New York
Et puis ses mystères de Paris
Qui valent bien celui de la Trinité
Avec son petit canal de l'Ourcq
Sa grande muraille de Chine
Sa rivière de Morlaix
Ses bêtises de Cambrai
Avec son océan Pacifique
Et ses deux bassins aux Tuileries
Avec ses bons enfants et ses mauvais sujets
Avec toutes les merveilles du monde
Qui sont là
Simplement sur la terre
Offertes à tout le monde
Eparpillées
Emerveillées elles-mêmes d'être de telles merveilles
Et qui n'osent se l'avouer
Comme une jolie fille nue qui n'ose se montrer
Avec les épouvantables malheurs du monde
Qui sont légion
Avec leurs légionnaires
Avec leurs tortionnaires
Avec les maîtres de ce monde
Les maîtres avec leurs prêtres leurs traîtres et leurs reîtres
Avec les saisons
Avec les années
Avec les jolies filles et avec les vieux cons
Avec la paille de la misère pourrissant dans l'acier des canons.

(Our Father who art in heaven
Stay there
And we’ll stay here on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty
With its mysteries of New York
And its mysteries of Paris
At least as good as that of the Trinity
With its little canal at Ourcq
Its great wall of China
Its river at Morlaix
Its candy canes
With its Pacific Ocean
And its two basins in the Tuileries
With its good children and bad people
With all the wonders of the world
Which are here
Simply on the earth
Offered to everyone
Strewn about
Wondering at the wonder of themselves
And daring not avow it
As a naked pretty girl dares not show herself
With the world’s outrageous misfortunes
Which are legion
With legionaries
With torturers
With the masters of this world
The masters with their priests their traitors and their troops
With the seasons
With the years
With the pretty girls and with the old bastards
With the straw of misery rotting in the steel of cannons.)
–Jacques Prévert, “Pater Noster” 1946

kvetchlandia: Bertolt Brecht Uncredited and Undated...

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Bertolt Brecht Uncredited and Undated Photograph

“If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
We’d see the horror in the heart of farce,
If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn’t always end up on our arse.
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don’t yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
― Bertolt Brecht, “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” 1941

“The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” was a parable play by Brecht, loosely disguising the fact the play, ostensibly about some Chicago mobsters, was about the rise of Hitler. It was written well before the end of the nazi regime, yet it contains a warning that is all too significant today.