Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard is een van my gunsteling skilders van alle tye.  Hy was ‘n agtiende eeuse Rococo-styl Franse skilder wat in sy leeftyd baie suksesvol en beroemd was. (Anders as baie skilders wat eers na hul dood bekendheid verwerf het.)   Fragonard het hom toegespits op die skilder van pragtige tuine, kinders en ook sy eie familie.  Sy skilderye was ‘n toonbeeld van speelsheid, uitbundigheid en vreugde.  Een van sy grootste werke, “Die Swaai” was selfs destyds beskou as ‘n bietjie “eroties”. Hy was op ‘n stadium die persoonlike skilder van Madame du Barry, die minnares van Koning Lodewyk XV van Frankryk.

Sy styl het egter in latere jare oudmodies geraak aangesien die nuwe neiging meer na die neoklassieke styl was en hy nie baie sukses daarmee gehad het nie. Verder het die Franse Revolusie hom finansieël geruineer en hy het in armoede gesterf.

Sy een kleindogter het jare later ook bekendheid verwerf vir haar skildertalent, sy was die begaafde Franse impressionis Berthe Morisot (1841-1895).

(Kliek op die fototjies om te vergroot.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hierdie skildery is een van my gunsteling skilderye ooit. “The Reader” hang tans in The Museum of Natural Art, Washington D.C.

 

 

 

   

 

  “The Kiss” Kyk net hoe ongelooflik realisties is haar rok geskilder, meesterlik.

 

 

 

         

 

 Die pragtige tuine van die Villa d’Este 

 

       

 

 

 

“The Swing”

(Darem vreeslik “eroties” nê!!)

Stormy Monday

Ons sê maar niks, dan is daar niks......

Sometimes

SOMETIMES…

We must be hurt in order to grow,

We must fail in order to know,

We must lose in order to gain.

Some lessons are learned best only through pain.

 SOMETIMES…

Our vision clears only after our eyes are washed with tears.

We have to be broken, so we can be tender,

We are sick so we can rest and think better on things more important than work or fun,

We are taken for trip near death, so we can assess how we’ve run.

 SOMETIMES…

We have to suffer lack, so we can know God’s provision,

We have to feel another’s pain, so we can have a sense of mission.

So take heart, if you don’t understand today,

Instead of grumbling, ask God what He means to say,

In order to learn you must endure, and learn to see the bigger picture.

In order to grow, you must stand and look beyond the hurt,

Trust in God’s loving hand that takes what is Good, and gives what is Best,

And on this blessed thought, rest your anxious heart with all the questions,

God’s hand only gives what his loving heart dictates,

 SOMETIMES…

The Lord calms the storm,

 SOMETIMES…

He lets the storm rage… and calms His child…

Better go through the storm with Him,

Than smooth waters without Him…

 

Ongewenste attensies!

Jammer almal, dat ek deesdae so skaamteloos “copy & paste” maar ek het tans baie werk en kry eenvoudig net nie tyd om te sit en skryf nie!  Hopelik sal dit binnekort beter gaan.

In elk geval, hier is ietsie wat my anderdag nogal laat giggel het toe ek dit lees:

Maniere om ongewenste karakters te verdryf…..

HY:  Kan ek vir jou ‘n drankie koop?

SY:  Nee dankie, ek sal liewer die geld vat.

 

HY:  Ek is ‘n fotograaf, ek soek al jare lank na ‘n gesig soos joune.

SY:  Ek is ‘n plastiese chirurg, ek soek al jare lank na ‘n gesig soos joune. (Eina!!)

 

HY:  Haai! Het ons nie een keer vantervore saam uitgegaan nie? Of was dit twee keer?

SY:  Was seker net een keer, ek maak nie twee keer dieselfde fout nie.

 

HY:  Hoe kry jy dit reg om so mooi te wees?

SY:  Ek het seker jou gedeelte ook gekry.

 

HY:  Sal jy Saterdag saam met my uitgaan?

SY:  Jammer, ek gaan die naweek ‘n kopseer hê.

 

HY:  Jou gesig moet definitief ‘n paar koppe laat draai.

SY:  En jou gesig moet definitief ‘n paar mae laat draai.

 

HY:  Gaan voort, moenie skaam wees nie, vra my uit.

SY:  Nou goed, gaan uit asseblief.

 

HY:  Ek dink ek kan jou baie gelukkig maak.

SY:  Hoekom, is jy oppad?

 

HY:  Wat sou jy sê as ek jou vra om te trou?

SY:  Niks, ek kan nie lag en praat op dieselfde tyd nie.

 

HY:  Sal ons ‘n fliek gaan sien?

SY:  Nee dankie, ek het dit reeds gesien.

 

HY:  Het ek jou nie al voorheen êrens gesien nie?

SY:  Ja, dis hoekom ek nie meer soontoe gaan nie.

 

HY:  Is hierdie stoel oop?

SY:  Ja, en hierdie een sal ook wees as jy gaan sit.

 

HY:  Jou liggaam is soos ‘n tempel.

SY:  Jammer, daar is geen dienste vandag nie.

 

HY:  As ek jou kaal kon sien, sou ek gelukkig doodgaan.

SY:  As ek jou kaal moet sien, sal ek doodgaan van die lag.

 

HY:  Waar was jy my hele lewe lank?

SY:  Besig om vir jou weg te kruip.  (Eina nog ‘n keer!)

 

A Good Woman

        This Applies To You

A good woman is proud of herself.

She respects herself and others.

She is aware of who she is.

She neither seeks definition from the person she is with, nor does she expect them to read her mind.

She is quite capable of articulating her needs.A good woman is hopeful.

 

She is strong enough to make all her dreams come true.

She knows love, therefore she gives love.

She recognizes that her love has great value and must be reciprocated.

If her love is taken for granted, it soon disappears.A good woman has a dash of inspiration, a dabble of endurance.

 

She knows that she will, at times, have to inspire others to reach the potential God gave them.

A good woman knows her past, understands her present and moves toward the future.A good woman knows God.

 

She knows that with God the world is her playground, but without God she will just be played.

A good woman does not live in fear of the future because of her past.

Instead, she understands that her life experiences are merely lessons, meant to bring her closer to self knowledge and unconditional self love.

Girl Smile…..YOU KNOW YOU HAVE IT GOING ON!

Mother to Son

Well, son, I’ll tell you:                                                              

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor -

Bare.     

But all the time,                                                                                                                                                                    I’se been a-climbin’ on,

And reachin’ landin’s,

And turnin’ corners,

And sometimes goin’ in the dark

Where there ain’t been no light.                                                            

So, boy, don’t you turn back.

‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.

Don’t you fall now -

For I’se still goin’, honey,

I’se still climbin’,

And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

 

–Langston Hughes

 

Foto’s: 

http://www.mauricebroaddus.com

Are you the favourite person of anybody?

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”

-Mother Teresa

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Ave Maria – Il Divo

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Fields of Gold – Sting & I Muvrini

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1973 – James Blunt

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