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Αντί να προβάλλουμε την ασχήμια και τη διαφθορά δε θα ήταν καλύτερα να μαθαίνουμε για ανθρώπους που αγωνίστηκαν με όποιον τρόπο να αφήσουν κάτι στους επόμενους που να αξίζει????
Marianne North
Η ζωγράφος των φυτών του κόσμου
Το 1860, η Marianne North ερασιτέχνης κηπουρός και ζωγράφος, διέσχισε τον ωκεανό για την Αμερική, κουβαλώντας πινέλα, μπογιές, ένα καβαλέτο, και την αγάπη της για τα λουλούδια. Στη συνέχεια ταξίδεψε στη Τζαμάικα, στο Περού, στην Ιαπωνία, στην Ινδία και την Αυστραλία. Επισκέφτηκε όλες τις ηπείρους εκτός από την Ανταρκτική, ψάχνοντας νέα λουλούδια για να ζωγραφίσει. «Εντυπωσιάστηκα από την ποικιλία των θεμάτων που μπορούσα να ζωγραφίσω», έγραψε.
Rather than projecting ugliness and corruption, it would not be better to learn about people who fought in any way to leave something to the next to be worth ????
In 1860, Marianne North, an amateur gardener and painter, crossed the ocean to America, carrying brushes, paints, a cane, and her love for flowers. He then traveled to Jamaica, Peru, Japan, India and Australia. He visited all the continents except Antarctica, looking for new flowers to paint. “I was impressed by the variety of subjects I could draw,” she wrote.
Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
After her sister married in 1864 and her father lost his seat in parliament, the two spent even more time travelling, visiting Switzerland and the South Tyrol. They travelled in Syria and along the Nile in 1865-67. Her father became ill in the Alps in 1869, and she brought him back to Hastings, where he died. She continued to paint as a way to assuage her grief.
After her father’s death in she travelled and made paintings in Sicily. In 1871–1872, she travelled to Canada, the United States and Jamaica, and spent a year in Brazil, where she did much of her work at a hut in the depths of a forest. In 1875, after a few months in Tenerife, she began a journey round the world, and for two years painted the flora of California, Japan, Borneo, Java and Ceylon. During her visits to California, she recorded her concern with the destruction of the redwoods. She spent all of 1878 in various parts of India.
On her return to Britain, North exhibited a number of her drawings in London. She offered to give the collection to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and to erect a gallery to house them. This offer was accepted, and the new buildings, designed by James Fergusson, were begun that year.
More than 800 remarkable paintings cover the walls of the Marianne North Gallery.
Οι τοίχοι της γκαλερί γεμίζουν με το σύνολο σχεδόν των 800 περίπου βοτανικών ζωγραφικών πινάκων της.
Μετά από έκθεση σε γκαλερί του Λονδίνου το 1879, είχε την ιδέα να εκτεθούν τα έργα της στους Βασιλικούς Κήπους του Kew στο Λονδίνο.
Αν και η γκαλερί άνοιξε αρχικά το 1882, Marianne συνέχισε να ταξιδεύει στον κόσμο για πολλά χρόνια μετά.
«Οι λόφοι ήταν καταγάλανοι, στοιβαγμένοι ο ένας πάνω στον άλλο. Δεν είχα ξαναδεί τόσα χρώματα». Χωρίς αεροπλάνα ή αυτοκίνητα και με τους δρόμους να σπανίζουν, η North καβάλησε γαϊδουράκια, σκαρφάλωσε γκρεμούς, και διέσχισε βάλτους για να βρει τα φυτά που έψαχνε.
Η εσωτερική γκαλερί και βεράντα κατασκευάστηκαν, ενώ επιβιβάστηκε σε ένα ταξίδι στην Αυστραλία και ήταν κατά την επιστροφή της από αυτή την ήπειρο που αποφάσισε να οργανώσει τα έργα της στη γεωγραφική σειρά. Αυτό πήρε ένα χρόνο για να ολοκληρώσει και η γκαλερί άνοιξε εκ νέου στην τελική του μορφή το 1886.
Όλα αυτά φορώντας τα συνηθισμένα ρούχα της εποχής, μακριά φορέματα ως το πάτωμα.
Καθώς η τέχνη της φωτογραφίας δεν είχε τελειοποιηθεί, οι πίνακες της North χάρισαν στους Ευρωπαίους βοτανολόγους τις πρώτες ματιές σε κάποια από τα σπανιότερα φυτά όπως τα τεράστια σαρκοφάγα φυτά του Βόρνεο, την Αφρικανική Κνιφόφια, και πολλά άλλα είδη που πήραν το όνομα της καθώς ήταν η πρώτη Ευρωπαία που τα κατέγραψε στη φύση.
Oh wow! Beautiful paintings! Good morning dear Efi! Have a great Earth Day 🌍 🤗
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Good morning and thank you!!!
The beauty of Earth lies in its simplicity and natural look!!
Happy Earth Day to you Ribana.
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What a beautiful post. So right that we should project beauty instead of misery and ugliness. A very good morning to you. I will reblog your post with your permission.
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Splendid! just loved it! I am from those who want to share .. so don’t ask me again !!!
Have a nice week Sadje and a Happy Earth Day!!!!
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Thanks a lot.
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I thank you !!!
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😍
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Reblogged it with the comment;
A beautiful post and message by Efi of Efisoul63. Spread happiness and beauty.
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A beautiful post and message by Efi of Efisoul63. Spread happiness and beauty.
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Much love back!
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😍
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That’s a lot of paintings. Thankyou for sharing.
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Good morning Athena!! Thank you!!!
Her life, as she described it, was one of “wander and wonder and paint!”
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Sounds good. Kalimera Efi! Eucaristo
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Eυχαριστώ ‘ Παρακαλώ
Efharisto…parakalo…
Thank you – you are wellcome
Κisses!!!!
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Ευχαριστώ πολύ ! I’m not sure how the transliteration works. I know various spellings exist so it’s difficult to know which is the correct one.
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Τhis one is CORRECT!!!!
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Thanks. Autocorrect can be quite helpful but it’s no good with transliteration.
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I know i have the same problem with my english translation!!! So if you see something strange … save me … lol!!!!
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I do see strange things all the time but I know it’s down to different grammar and sentence structure.
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Ohhhh… Do not laugh at me… I’m so ashamed of that…….
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It’s ok don’t be. Your doing very well.
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Tell me if something is funny !! Have a nice day!!!
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Ok I will τα λέμε φίλε μου.
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φίλη μου (female) .. φίλε μου (male)!! Kisses!!!!
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Χαχα that’s not the first time I have got that bit wrong but nobody has bothered tell me until now thanks.
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That’s why i am telling you to do the same for me!!! Lol!!!
With a little help of my friends as the song says!!!!
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The song actually says “I’ll get by with a little help FROM my friends;)
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you for this, Efi! I see there’s a postcard set due for release in August. 🤗🤗🤗!!!
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Tell me more about this Alice!!!
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Well, the art was so beautiful that I thought “gee, I wish I had some of it on the back sides of postcards to send to my mother!” So I went to Amazon to check, just on the remote chance that I would find it. And sure enough, there’s a box of 100 postcards featuring the art of Marianne North set to be released August 15th. It’s already available for preorder. What are the chances of this happening. . . It’s a little bizarre! At any rate, thank you for introducing me to this amazing artist! ❤️❤️❤️
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I am so glad and i will do the same Alice!! Thank you so much for let us know about this!!!
Have a nice day !!!!!!!
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You too Efi!
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…True beauty of the wild nature expressed in the eyes of this creative woman. She reminds me of another woman, that had similar interest, Mary Delany and her decoupage pictures; https://libertasnova.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/dekupaz-umjetnost-ukrasavanja-uporabnih-predmeta/
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Thank for let us know her work!! I will read about her as i like decoupage also!!!!
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🙂
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