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Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse.  Visit us on twitter @cowboycoleridge.  Hope all is well Z!  Headed to my hometown for the 4th of July rodeo and parade.  Have a great 4th!  Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

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my how the twists
and turns continue
to amaze

a leap of faith
a chance meetin’
and now this

a spark, i believe
though it has been
so long, not really sure

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Love consists of this.  Two solitudes, as Rilke notes below, who come together and discover that they cannot be apart.  Unrequited love consists of two solitudes who come together and only one discovers that he/she cannot be without the other.  I have always been drawn to books, stories, songs and films of unrequited love.  Even more so now that I have lived it.

Today is the birthday of Johann Friedrich Overbeck (Lübeck 3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869 Rome); painter and member of the Nazarene movement.  He was interred in the church of San Bernardo alle Terme.

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Self-portrait with family, c. 1820, Behnhaus

Easter Morning

Italia und Germania (Neue Pinakothek).

The Adoration of the kings

Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem.

Today is the birthday  of  Albert Gottschalk (Stege, Møn 3 July 1866 – 13 February 1906 Frederiksberg, Copenhagen); painter.  He had a close connection, personally and artistically, to the poets Johannes Jørgensen, Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen.

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photographed by Georg Emil Hansen in the 1880s

Gade i Køge med Nicolai kirke til venstre

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  Early Spring Day in Glostrup

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  Ruins in the Campania

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  View at Køge

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  Afternoon in April

Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova
Natalia in 1910

Today is the birthday of Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Nagaevo, Tula Oblast, Russian Empire; 3 July 1881, old style June 21, 1881 – October 17, 1962 Paris); avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer.

Her painting vastly influenced the avant-garde in Russia. Her exhibitions held in Moscow and St. Petersburg (1913 and 1914) were the first promoting a “new” artist by an independent gallery. When it came to the pre-revolutionary period in Russia, where decorative painting and icons were a secure profession, her modern approach to rendering icons was both transgressive and problematic. She was one of the leading figures in the avant-garde in Russia and carried this influence with her to Paris.

She was notorious for her occasionally shocking public behaviour. When Goncharova and Larionov first became interested in Primitivism, they painted hieroglyphics and flowers on their faces and walked through the streets; Goncharova herself sometimes appeared topless in public with symbols on her chest as part of her manifesto “Why We Paint Our Faces.”

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in 1910

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  Self-portrait (1907)

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  Women with rakes(1907)

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  Khorovod (1910)

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  Cyclist (1913)

Portrait of Natalia Goncharova by Mikhail Larionov (1915)

Today’s song of the day is Van Halen – “Why Can’t this be Love”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfk89hBNO9g.  That is the question that haunts me night and day; Why?

Mac Tag

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.  Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.  Sylvia Plath

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