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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  March 14, 2019 12:45am-1:00am CET

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the dutch artist has to be one of the greatest painters who ever lived and 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 snapshot capturing the dynamic of men about to mobilize it's the most famous picture in amsterdam thanks museum the night watch by the time friend from the fine remember. the genius i mean. he is one. few artist even with the many painters at work and dots republicans have gentry
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who can grasp you if you look at his paintings or look at his chinks they pull you in. rembrandt young and wild highly talented he played with light and shadow in the 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 it's a masterpiece of the use of light and dark effects. robert organizes lights
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in a painting he wants to see where you want you to see that part that's where all the lights going to be but in the area he or she will use only light colors where the further away from that area he starts introducing darker colors like red eventually brown black so he 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 relisten to embellish in more flattering his subjects. she showed this wife of a brewer with wrinkles around her eyes and a tiny smile. in his portraits of the merchant's son martin's all moms and his fiancé cup it he emphasized their self-confidence and love of luxury.
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and he always painted himself over and over again. i think started out to. study his own previous. truth in front of the mirror and he's making faces like angry or carrots or. thinking. it's one of the ways to practice emotions that rembrandt's 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. saskia had managed the finances and maintained contacts to amsterdam's high society at the end of his 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
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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 office he's worked with the pretenders phil collins steve winwood to name but a few but he's best known for his long association stings maines sideman has started playing has in fact become part of sting's sound man as 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 them. it's more of an impression ope what the subject is. it's like one of my favorite
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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 brings up those 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
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. miller is played with staying for thirty years he says the british singer touch on the importance of breaking rules when writing music. changing from air from age a to g. minor you know the certain shifts that wouldn't make sense and music college but he can make sense of it by the way that he tells the story. dominic 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 at
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times been quite. dark and sinister. all your correspondent in brussels day all matters is a passionate baker has taken it upon himself to show us 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 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 pose 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 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
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five hundred years later things went all wrong and greece is pockets well empty. let's start with liquidity and the need for it two hundred nineteen billion liters to be precise one millionth of water for every billion euros in financial aid that flowed into the greek economy it's a because. the world has ever seen but that created some real pressure austerity that's a greek word to squeezing public finances like greek. it's called cold extract that's ten millimeters of olive oil robinson sold nine grams and now comes the troika of yeast flour and malt. finally
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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 noble though. misto requires steady. eight minutes one for every year of austerity in a stand mixer tough love but don't worry the loan repayment schedules all extended loan maturity is there more diplomatically called. time that's exactly what the peter dough needs now it takes twelve hours to mature at room temperature place the dough on
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a lightly floured surface. and divide it into twelve pieces. shape each into a ball and then roll them out like those creek reforms there are plenty to straighten out corruption. the rock receive. keeping your eye on the long term goal but he's young and growth and to move growth . now to a chief that's proof the dough for thirty minutes and make sure you throw in the towel like greece's finance minister foreign minister and defense minister. plays the put us in the hot often and watch them inflate after just a few minutes. just like the country's polluting civil 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
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a banker or investor stuff today hilt. for the ordinary greek on the streets a little sun seeking will do. in the end it's not all about money dreamy beaches archaeological sites and the rich flavor of greek room these were the real treasures the ancient greek word for bread is 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 you mouth piece of bread or any of those old has banked so that torah was available on our you tube channel that said you tube dot com slash d w d w euro maps i'm going to have a go at the belgian bread he made over the weekend this weekend i'll let you know
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how i get on only if on successful that is but that's it for today though thanks very much watching thanks for the crew here in berlin bob i've.
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e takes good personally un with a little gender for people in stories that make the game so special. for all true fans oh my god. because more than football online. costs a lot of. people make fun about their own social economic and political problems. in mozambique we say that you have to laugh so you don't write it's how people call me they don't propose. as a journalist i often talk about these folks came back balancing the lessons of katrina. i like to start my day by checking all to all those jokes finding out what
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people have talking about what is moving them. my father taught me how to. about my country and. that is what i keep doing to the state my name and i work at the. 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 no deal under any circumstances m.p.'s now plan to vote thursday on whether to ask the e.u. .

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