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Ling Jun (born 1963) is a Chinese painter who creates hyper-realistic paintings and drawings that look like photographs. He is currently the leader of the Wuhan Academy of Painting and the president of the Wuhan Artists Association. Jun is from Sichuan Province, China. He graduated in 1984 from Hankou Teachers College, Wuhan Branch, Arts Department. He received an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University in 2018.

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Because of traditional reflexes, the audience stopped to listen to the music but Satie and Milhaud kept saying « Whatever you do, don’t listen! »… And that’s the day what we now know as background music was born. As a true avant-garde artist and a serial jokester, with that experience, Satie wanted to do away with the idea of music happening as an organized and paid for event. During that intermission, music was therefore a non-event, a piece of furniture in the grand scheme of things, just like lighting or heating. What was seen as a joke then is our life now, and it even has a name, « elevator music »: shops, elevator, bars, restaurants… Every moment is a musical one and it’s barely noticeable because it should not be. It’s ironic that the Gymnopédies, written way before Satie’s concept, eventually became mainstream elevator music.

Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie, played by Jacques Février in 1966. Musicologist and philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch used to say that Satie was the composer of mornings, because there is something matutinal about his music… I might add that he was more precisely the composer of Sunday mornings, even though there is nothing religious about his compositions: but there is a serenity, a calmness, an emptiness that modernity associates with Sundays; so here is your dose of Sunday morning music. In fact, Satie was the inventor of something very modern that surrounds your everyday life… One day of 1920, Erik Satie organized something peculiar during the intermission of a concert by Max Jacobs. Indeed, it was the first outing of his concept of « musique d’ameublement » (furnishing music). The principle is simple: the public should walk around and discuss as if it were a normal intermession while musicians played music that should not be actively listened to…

This animation of Terrace of a Café at Night, is created by the artist @andrey.zakirzyanov. The original version of the artwork signed by Van Gogh is located at the @krollermullermuseum in the Netherlands.

Who is the author of the work?Did you recognize the music?🔥

Drawing on a typewriter, have you ever seen this?🤯

how will this musical instrument be in your language?Do you like the sound of it?🔥🎷

Thjalfi, known for his incredible speed, offered to race anyone in the castle, only to be bested. Thor, known for his immense strength and love of drink, then challenged the inhabitants of the castle to a drinking contest, and was humiliated. Utgarda-Loki revealed that the contests had been illusions, and the gods left the castle wiser and more cautious for having encountered the cunning Utgarda-Loki. And the tale of their encounter would be told and retold, a cautionary reminder of the folly of underestimating the power of illusion and trickery.

Tricks and Illusions: The Humbling of the Gods in Utgarda-Loki’s Castle Once upon a time in the ancient Nordic realm, the great gods Thor and Loki found themselves traveling far from Asgard in Thor’s goat-drawn chariot, and sought shelter in a farmer’s home overnight. Thor offered his goats for supper as a show of gratitude, with the intention of resurrecting them afterwards, instructing the farmer and his family to place the bones on the hides to achieve this. However, the farmer’s son disobeyed Thor’s instructions, leading to one of the goats having a lame hind leg. Instead of killing the family as punishment, Thor took their children, Thjalfi and Roskva, as his servants. As they reached their destination, the travelers entered the castle of Utgarda-Loki, where they were immediately taunted for their small size and faced a series of challenges. Eager to prove their prowess, Loki boasted that he could out-eat anyone in the castle, and was proven wrong.