October 6, 2024 3:57 am

Meeting Bench

KOLOMAN SOKOL (1902/2003), SLOVAK PAINTER – The eventful artistic odyssey of an painter

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WHAT IF YOU SLEPT – Poetry, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

WHAT IF YOU SLEPT – What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven, and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had that flower in you hand. Ah, what then? http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Poems-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140423532

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IF YOU FORGET ME – Poetry, by Pablo Neruda

IF YOU FORGET ME – I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that …

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ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE – Petry, by William Shakespeare

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE – All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining …

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THE UNUSUAL USE OF COLOUR – Portraits and lascapes: symbolic meaning intertwine in the painting of Harald Slott Moller

HARALD SLOTT MOLLER 1/2 – He was born in Copenhagen, studyng at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He was married to the artist Agnes Slott Møller. Harald Slott-Møller is most known for his portraits of prominent Southern Jutland and South Schleswig. He was influenced by Naturalism and Realism, but later also incorporated new trends such as Symbolism and …

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HARALD SLOTT MOLLER (1864/1937), DANISH PAINTER – When Naturalism and realism become Symbolism and Neo-Romanticism

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SOMETHING FOREVERYONE IN DENMARK – Midsummer Night near Vejle Fjordis, painting by Harald Slott-Møller

It is approximately 22 km in length, and stretches east from the town of Vejle at the head to the towns of Trelde Næs. The fjord’s generally calm surface waters, are surrounded by low forested hills shaped by glaciers during the last ice age. Welcome at Vejle, a town in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula, at the …

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VINGSTED JERNALDERLANDSBY, DENMARK – The Iron Age Village in Vingsted

Follow the signs to “Jernaldermiljøet” from the main road through Vingsted. Every year in July, the reconstructed Iron Age settlement at Vingsted (The Iron Age Village is located approx. 20 km west of Vejle), invites families to spend their holiday living like an Iron Age family around 2,000 years ago. The days are spent with the many everyday activities of …

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A WORLD THAT PLAYS ITS OWN GAME WITH US – Inger Christensen, poems

Christensen’s father was a tailor, and her mother a cook before her marriage, but Inger Christensen (1935/2009, born in Vejle Denmark), become experimentalists – in different way – one of Europe’s leading contemporary experimentalists. Her works include poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. She received numerous international literary awards. After teaching at the College for Arts in Holbæk, she turned to …

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THE INMOST SECRETS OF LOVE – Søren Kierkegaard: Works of Love

His early work was written under various pseudonyms. He was born in a Spring day of 1813, to an affluent family in Copenhagen. Considered the original existentialist, Søren Kierkegaard developed his philosophical views in reaction to what he saw were empty values of Hegelianism and the Christian ethics of his time. Some of Kierkegaard’s key ideas, include the concept of …

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