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Daniel Kotynia - getting on with life
The Kotynia colors and designs, at least as photographed images, convey to me a dimensional impression.
Is it possible that he considered sculpture in his artistic choices or that he also sculpts?
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/30/2023
What Made Sir Sydney Nolan So Popular?
So European discoverers and settlers found no native peoples prior to being exposed to a prophecy of a wave of god-like peoples, such as the Aztecs had regarding Spanish conquerors, correct? This is unfamiliar to me. I am under the impression ...
Jo_Murphy, on 12/30/2023
Daniel Kotynia - From the Extreme to the Sublime
I'll have to ask him. I think not. He would have just out them there for the staging of the photo, jo
Jo_Murphy, on 12/30/2023
Daniel Kotynia - From the Extreme to the Sublime
Thank you!
They're so attractive! Did the artist or a friend make them?
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/30/2023
What Made Sir Sydney Nolan So Popular?
The second paragraph under the first subheading, Myths, Reality and the Australian Psyche
Ned Kelly, Burk and Wills, and Mrs Fraser, alerts us to the fact that "When European Australians settled Australia, they found it necessary to either ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/30/2023
The Puss in the Boots
The in-text images lead me to believe that Puss in Boots only dons boots.
But filmed representations of him sometimes present him with a hat.
Would that just be a "Hollywoodism" or would it be drawing on some tradition regarding Puss in Boots ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/30/2023
The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats - A Myth Becoming a Fairy Tale
The third similarity, The name of Cronus is related with time - Chronos, correlates the youngest kid hiding in a timekeeping piece -- a wall clock -- with an ancient timekeeper, Cronus!
Is it possible that wall clock was a cuckoo clock?
The ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/30/2023
Who was Giambattista Basile?
The third fact, From soldier to courtier, considers the military-service component of Giambattista Basile's life.
Was military service mandatory?
Would surviving military service without a dishonorable-discharge equivalent open socio-economic ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/30/2023
Cinderella: we can all relate with her, can't we?
There are so many proverbs and symbolic associations with a dove I would not treat them as necessarily connected to each other.
Tolovaj, on 12/29/2023
The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats - A Myth Becoming a Fairy Tale
There are many fairy tales with very active female characters in fairy tales. Especially mothers (and stepmothers) can be very protective considering their offspring.
Tolovaj, on 12/29/2023
Who was Giambattista Basile?
I think Basile took it from the 'Academia but changed it a bit. I am not sure about that, though.
Tolovaj, on 12/29/2023
Best Sources of Free Pictures (Photos, Clip Art, and Other Royalty Free Images)
No, I believe they are completely independent of each other. You can be a parrt of one or the other of both or none.
Tolovaj, on 12/29/2023
Who was Giambattista Basile?
Yes, it's defiitely possible, but we'll never know the truth.
Tolovaj, on 12/29/2023
Carl Offterdinger and his vintage illustrations
Both brothers tried to do as much as possible to unite many different areas of today's Germany (which was not a state at their times) through common charactersitics. Language was one and shared stories another. People who share the stories ...
Tolovaj, on 12/29/2023
Who was Giambattista Basile?
Yes, DerdriuMarriner, such anagrams were popular addition to written works, often with humorius twists.
Tolovaj, on 12/29/2023