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This video is a tour of the Street Art Museum at the former Zoo of Turin, Italy. Magnifico!
Tour dello Street Art Museum (SAM, iniziativa a cura di Border Land) nato sulle pareti degli edifici dell’ex zoo comunale di Torino.
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“The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.”
– Stanley Kubrick –
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Painting by Zdzisław Beksiński (24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005)
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Don’t ask to be admired…that’s what I’ve heard.
It’s a lesson I’ll never learn. We share the joy of art.
If you admire my dreams, I’ll admire yours.
If we admire each other, we’ll never be bored!
~ by Lawrence R. Spencer. 2011.
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The Muses (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, moũsai: perhaps from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men- “think”) in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, are the goddesses of the inspiration of literature, science and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths.
Greek mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means “art” or “poetry”. In Pindar, to “carry a mousa” is “to excel in the arts”. The word probably derives from the Indo-European root men-, which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne, English “mind”, “mental” and “memory” and Sanskrit “mantra”.
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 38 invokes the Tenth Muse:
“How can my Muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour’st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument?”
“No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident; just as no Apollonian poet can perform his proper function unless he lives under a monarchy or a quasi-monarchy. A Muse-poet falls in love, absolutely, and his true love is for him the embodiment of the Muse… But the real, perpetually obsessed Muse-poet distinguishes between the Goddess as manifest in the supreme power, glory, wisdom, and love of woman, and the individual woman whom the Goddess may make her instrument… The Goddess abides.”(comment by the British poet Robert Graves)
