AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Art Uncorked

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The home of Chloe Wine at Main Ridge, Mornington Peninsula The painting is Chloe, by Jules Lefebvre, (a French figure painter 1836-1911). This is arguably the most famous painting in Melbourne, hanging in Young And Jackson's Hotel, Melbourne since 1909. For details of the incredible journeys of "Chloe - the model" (actually a model, Marie, who suicided at the age of 21) and "Chloe - the painting" see Only Melbourne.
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3WW prompt ~ inappropriate + order + shortcut
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A boutique winery
(Known as Poplar Bend)
Tucked away on a mountain
But not far from the sea
Parades an image of
A famous
Melbourne nude painting
In full view of
Passing traffic on
Main Ridge Road
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Those who know nothing of
The painting's colourful legends
May feel the image
InappropriateFor general public viewing
And it may be quite a shock
Turning a bend in the road to find
A supersized view of
Nudity
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But order should calm chaos ~
This is classic nudity ~
Think Rubens
Think Michelangelo
Think Greek gods
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A humble winery offers
A shortcut to
The appreciation of
Art
Uncorked
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Poplar Bend sign, Main Ridge near Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula

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  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

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