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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  March 13, 2019 10:45pm-11:01pm CET

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and we have another installment of our baking bread series this week. tells us what piece of bread has to do with the greek and. the dutch artist has to be one of the greatest painters who ever lived on the rights museum in amsterdam has the biggest collection of his works in the world now to celebrate the three hundred fiftieth anniversary of his death the museum has for the very first time put on display their entire collection which includes of course some of the most famous rembrandt paintings of all. let's go forward march this captain seems to be calling to the men of amsterdam civil defense and the group reaches for their muskets this painting is like a stop shot capturing the dynamic of men about to mobilize it's the most famous picture in amsterdam strikes museum the night watch by them kind from the time.
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remember. the genius i mean. here's one. few artist even with the many painters at work docks republicans or gentry who can grasp you if you look at his paintings or look at the chinks they pull you in. rembrandt young and wild highly talented he played with light and shadow in this self portrait painting each individual hair. at the age of twenty two he settled in amsterdam at the time a thriving center of trade the rich merchants patricians adored him and they paid astronomical sums for his work. for the way station which at the time also housed an anatomical theatre the famous dr nicholas told commissioned the painting depicting him working with his students. the anatomy lesson of dr toilet
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it's a masterpiece of the use of light and dark effects. robert organizes lights in a painting he wants to see where you want you to see the park that's where all the lights going to be but in that area you also use only light colors where the further away from that area you start introducing dark like red eventually brown black so you really manipulates the usual paint to express the emotional impact. in the painting the prophetess anna it's the book that's highlighted this woman is able to read unusual for women in the netherlands at that time. rembrandt preferred realism to embellishing or flattering his subjects. she showed this wife of the brewer with wrinkles around her eyes and a tiny smile. in his portraits of the merchant's son martin's all moms and his
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fiance cup it he emphasized their self-confidence and love of luxury. and he always painted himself over and over again. i think started out to. study his own troops. in front of the mirror and he's making faces like angry or or. thinking pensive. it's one of the ways to practice emotions the brand brands professional success could not protect him from personal tragedy his wife saskia died after the birth of their last son and only one of their four children survived. had managed the finances and maintained contacts to amsterdam's high society at the end of his
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life rembrandt was impoverished a few years before his death he created his self-portrait as paul the apostle with his typically unsparing eye he depicted himself as a disillusioned old man made weary by life. extraordinary painter now guitarist dominic miller is one of those go to session musicians for some of the world's top he's worked with the pretenders phil collins steve winwood to name but a few but he's best known for his long association as sting's main sideman is started playing as in fact become part of sting sound miller has just released a new solo album and we caught up with him on his current. calm introverted and definitely not in a hurry the notes dominic miller plays on his guitar have plenty of space between
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them. it's more of an impression hope what the subject is. it's so like one of my favorite quotations from picasso which i use a lot in my mantra in music is you don't paint what you see you paint what you know is that. dominic miller has played with almost all the european jazz greats his new album is called absent the high proof tipple inspired more than a few artists and writers that drove some of them out but not miller. i've never tasted absinthe and i don't drink oh i'm sorry to say but i think that's all the more reason why i can create something that that that brings up those
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feelings you know that i want to create a high or a. kind of a psychedelic experience through through music that's what i'm trying to do anyway . miller is played with staying for thirty years he says the british singer taught him the importance of breaking rules when writing music. changing from air from age a to g. minor you know that certain shifts that wouldn't make sense in music college but he can make sense of it by the way that he tells the story. dominic
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miller also likes to tell stories with his music he wasn't aiming to make a beautiful album but rather one that reflects his experiences and they have the times been quite. dark and sinister. our europe correspondent in brussels day old masters is a passionate baker has taken it upon himself to shows how to bake bread from every european union member state the age of the still twenty seven soon but we won't talk about that now today georg is going to bake piece of bread from greece and as always he'll be mixing it with a bit of local political history. europe close so much to greece you roebuck she was the lover of the ancient god of gods use and then during the olympics democracy. even money all invented in greece
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with these coins you could for the first time buy a pita bread rather than let's say exchange of fish for it. cuts two thousand five hundred years later things went all wrong and grease the pockets were empty. let's start with liquidity and the need for it two hundred nineteen billion liters to be precise one million of water for every billion euros in financial aid that flowed into the greek economy it's a because so the dairy the world has ever seen but that created some real pressure austerity that's a greek words to squeezing public finances creek. it's
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called cold extract that's ten million liters of olive oil robinson sold nine grams and now comes the troika. flour and malt. finally add and this is key greek honey. the flavor is bittersweet after eighty years of bitter austerity the bailout program is finally at an end good evening but. the problems in greece's economy still are no over though. isto requires steady. eight minutes one for every year of austerity in a stand makes a tough love but don't warrant the loan repayment schedules all extended loan maturity is there more diplomatically called. time that's exactly what the
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peter dough needs now it takes twelve hours to mature at room temperature place the dough on a lightly floured surface. and divide it into twelve pieces. shape each into a ball and then roll them out like those street reforms there's plenty to straighten out corruption. to rock or a city. keeping your eye on the long term goal for his young and growth and to move toward growth. now to achieve that proof the dough for thirty minutes and make sure you throw in the towel like greece's finance minister foreign minister and defense minister. place the critters in the hot often and watch them inflate after just a few minutes. just like the country's polluting civil
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service enjoy all the hot air coming out of it. so let's fill up our pit our pockets while they're still hot if you are a banker or investor stuff today hilt. for the ordinary greek on the streets a little such seeking will do. in the end it's not all about money dreamy beaches archaeological sites and the rich flavor of greek food these were the real treasures the ancient greek word for bread is all toast which actually means flavor if you want to know why bake one of these and find out for yourself. now if you want to have a go might you mouth piece of bread or any of those old has so that tauriel is
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available on all your juke jonell that's at youtube dot com slash d w d w you're a math i'm going to have a go at the belgium bread he made over the weekend this weekend i'll let you know how i get on only if i'm successful that is but that's it for today though thanks very much watching thanks for the crew out here and by then bob i've.
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a son only in the jungle and returned to the concrete and glass drunk but. the result reverse culture shock. ready for a. really strange. officials say connected to life. the prize winning documentary from the forest starts people first on t w. british lawmakers have voted to rule out leaving the european union without first negotiating a deal with the bloc by a forty three vote margin they approved an amended measure that barred a new deal breck's that under any circumstances m.p.'s now plan to vote thursday on whether to ask the e.u. to delay britain's planned departure on march twenty ninth corps.

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