Boris Pasternak and Olga.. A Divine Love…
Moscow… trembled…
Shivered…
In icy… freezing…
Sub-zero… weather…
It was… October 1946…
In the… Russian Empire…
Under… Stalin’s socialist…
Cruel… terror…
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Arts
Sergiu Celibidache.. A “God”…
Sergiu… Celibidache…
Romanian… conductor…
Composer… teacher…
Philosopher…
Had a life enhancing effect on my senses… watching him conduct the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra on the Franco-German TV network ARTE.
The experience felt like bathing in the very presence of… “The Divine”… a near transcendental moment… the closest thing to heaven…
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Closest.. To You…
Closest… to you…
While… in…
The… company of…
Frédéric Chopin’s…
Concerto… pour piano…
Numéro… un…
My eyes… close…
My lashes… flutter…
Wet… with tears…
You’re… there…
With… me…
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Greta Garbo.. Timeless…
Greta… Garbo’s…
Mystique…
Magnetism…
Mesmerised me… forever…
I found… her presence…
Enigmatic… electrifying…
Timeless…
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Paul Klee: “Irony at Work” Retrospective.. at the Centre Pompidou…
“Paul Klee: L’Ironie à l’oeuvre” exhibition just opened in Paris’ Centre Pompidou…
Considered one of the 20th century’s most iconic artists and a singular figure in modernity, Klee was a Swiss-German artist, born in 1879, whose highly individual style was influenced by art movements such as Expressionism, Cubism, Constructivism, and Surrealism.
This is the first major Paul Klee retrospective in France since the 1969 exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne…
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Frédéric Chopin.. Romantic Genius…
Frédéric Chopin…
Fryderyk…
Buried… was his… “heart”…
In his much loved homeland…
Poland…
Beneath an epitaph…
“For where your treasure is…
There will your heart be also”…
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David by Michelangelo.. Bewitched.. Mesmerised…
“DAVID…
De… Michel-Ange”…
Took… my…
Breath… away…
Before… him…
I… stood…
In Florence’s public square… outside the Palazzo della Signoria…
Mesmerised… by…
His… beauty…
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Bettina Rheims Exhibition.. At Your Peril…
The Bettina Rheims photography exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in the Marais is showing until the 27th of March 2016.
You see it at your own peril… depending on your sensibilities.
The exhibition, which is curated by Vanessa Mourot, with the participation of Jean-Luc Monterosso, is a co-production with the Stockholm Fotografisca…
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Snowdrops.. in the Snow…
Snowdrops…
In… winter…
Dancing… with…
Wind… and rain…
Flowering…
Blossoming…
Under… my tree…
On… grassy banks…
They… sway…
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