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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  April 26, 2019 7:45pm-8:01pm CEST

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but first off we are constantly confronted in the media by the ideal figure of a woman but there is no such thing of course as we all know now some very witty instagram as have been addressing this subject with their own versions of famous posts or perhaps undressing the subject will be a better way of explaining it i colleague melissa holroyd will be here to explain all after this. just an average day at the beach with britney spears on instagram. and he is serious barber's version. because trillion is hailed as one of the funniest women on the net with her parodies she holds up a mirror to the glittering illusory world of social media. and she's not alone melody mitchell berger from hamburg also wants to see more real
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content on instagram. if she wants to highlight unrealistic beauty standards on the social media platform and show that the vast majority of women don't look like models so the former fashion editor strips off and posts her unfiltered photos. it's not usual in our society that we are exposed to people and especially to women who are all shapes and sizes we don't often see them in advertising or in magazines or on television shows and it's a bit self empowering to say hey i'm here and i'm doing this and i'm not going to go away you. will be michelle burger has had enough and some displays of so-called beauty she admires celeste by a revealing humor that has taken aim at both celebrities and models alike.
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and she's being inspired under the hash tag celeste challenge accepted she's now posting her own parodies. my colleague melissa holroyd is with us now i mean i suppose it's quite an accolade really when people start copying yeah she's been a big name for a couple of years now she's also an actor she's a comedian she's published a book she's going on tour at the end of the year with a stand up show i'm her party's instagram parody started in twenty fifteen is the top of experiment and you know and they do very well as you can just say they highlight the absurdity of a photo and of was with terrific results and she's gone on a lot of followers yet five point six million followers i'm still banned is
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a lot and constantly adding new posts are believed as well yes she's pretty active she's pretty active and she works with a lot of big names this is doing a parody of cindy crawford in the pepsi commercial. cindy crawford is a big fan of hers by the way. she also works a lot with husband does well they would do a lot of things together she calls him husband and he calls himself also her husband here they are hard at work well actually that's them isn't it better than today that's the that's the sort of original yes it would be yes yes bob it has really tapped into a wealth of material things to my promise and instagram i mean there is this there's this is you know there's some areas that you could choose from and some of the people i mean city for a bit of if you like funds some people getting upset by their account to be out there but there are also plenty of people who have been parodied who have started
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to follow her and also but if people who've been parodied who have then contacted her and taking part in the next party there are also lots of models who say that they deliberately post absurd scenarios with the hope so list all the will do a parody of them let's see let's have a look at the serious side of this is despite progress on women's rights in recent years i mean when it comes to women's figures there's not much give and take a man can walk around with a pot belly and get away with it a woman call it cheap. yeah i mean i think also in recent years i would say that beauty standards have also been raised and there are plenty of studies that show that social media platforms like instagram ah contributing to an obsession and the negs diety when it comes to appearances in society but about briefly these face filters that the they always make people look like models and yet have also come under a lot of scrutiny and have been calls for social media platforms to do something
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about it instagram has responded in part to that they might be they might be removing their like in the future what you mean that like the you can like something you know so that you can't see the likes. that sort of drone who says oh see there's going to be lots more about this in the midst of all right now thanks very much there. museum in switzerland is staging the most ambitious exhibition ever devoted to pablo picasso's early works the so-called blue rose periods. paintings from these six years are considered some of the finest most compelling examples of modern and it did in fact set the scene for him to become the greatest artist of the twentieth century. i wanted to become a painter became picasso. becoming the genius of the twentieth century modernist cubist grove deconstructs of women and peacemaker because so reputed to
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be reinvented. because he could. but there were moments of doubt pain and sorrow in early works in the six years of the blue rose period images that have burnt away into the collective consciousness for truth reproductions for calendars and postcards works were not revolutionary but rather emotive of a quite existential. started . on the contrary i believe. and what we actually want to show in this exhibition is that cubism didn't just suddenly as a radical break work that this is heralded important themes and motifs in the blue and then the rose period or the. world exhibition in one
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thousand nine hundred cast so busy to paris in the belle of the metropolis was inspiration for one thousand year old child prodigy had been accustomed to success but now experienced hardship living as a bohemian. between paris and spain when his best friend committed suicide his works darkened butt. he had an important part of his artistic identity tried signature. in the early years in search of recognition picasso identified himself with outsiders even erotic motifs seemed more bad and sentimental he paints prostitutes visits women's prisons studies misery he gives and the poor a face he seeks out suffering it's a phase of oversensitivity even the portrait of an early lover madalena is unsettling. he is still reliant on the melancholic symbolic power of the color.
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of the beginning of the rose period the melancholy fade. remains as the artist's alter ego reflects the antiabortion a bastion of freedom from social conventions. because those early work were all we had we probably wouldn't be talking about a nice way today. but fortunately he co-founded cubism after the blues and rose periods for. spring nineteen zero seven is the turning point inhibitions fall away and the laws of traffic composition. he destroys beauty in favor of truth becomes the genius. changed his style many times in his life style of design where anything goes tired
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of hearing that less is more all the famous bile house cry that form follows function fed up with all those clear lines the minimalism of it all well april twenty seventh is well designed day and here's something that embraces an abundance of design and lots of. welcome to maximalist. carlos'. patterns misplaying embodies these mantras she's decorated her apartment in london in the maximalist style long live abundance decorates until you drop. some of this is my colorful policy and color makes me happy so the key thing with some of this movement is mixing mixing color mixing pattern and bringing together
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a lot of objects. up there we have bottles and there is not just one not just two there's like twenty two so rather than be tane i think. take it to the. interior designer emily henson believes you can never be too bold when it comes to decorating and she says so they just book. so i have noticed a change from neutral tasteful almost like scandinavian style interior towards more colorful pattern full homes i think much of this is about breaking the rules i don't think it has to be i think it's has to be your taste a growing number of shops in london are adopting the more is more style and carrying a range of fun pieces from across the world. designed to go hern lived in the one nine hundred century terraced house a trademark
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a dark color driver didn't accessories and in your face texture combinations maximalist a great many white square design convention was the star you can impact on the feel of a room. so the rules for me all don't use more than three or four colors in a row because otherwise it just is too schizo for that for the bright. light seeing is fundamental texture and pattern are a bit like a hope and a spice or maybe and then the biggest thing that scares people the most. i was playing around with sky. launch of pieces in a smaller space create a fairy tale atmosphere is it just a short lived find or has minimalism met its match. for those are looking to express their creativity to the. maximum ism could be the way it should go.
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so almost anything goes i like that it means there is no such thing as bad taste just not much more all and all these topics on the other things are just stick and cultural websites at b.w. dot com and on facebook at g.w. culture so for now thanks for watching i'm done till next talk about.
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goal africa a town under stress most of whom you love make it to the song let me have a coup to defund it again boston is a. long and difficult climate change and industrialization have battered barney in senegal a web documentary shows how local people have been affected. in. some of. the worst fortunes of. course a plane. is dangerous. floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you couldn't write any kind of peace not if you want and probably more system built on . the climate starts of the thirtieth on t w.
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l z a view of the world. where i come from but the goal is that to get to cisco just like this chinese food doesn't matter where i am it's always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany china's food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things i need to differentiate knowledge many of fluids first as i'm going to send that exists as a part of the war haven't been implemented in china that's new but i'm not a chinese people wondering if they're going to say that but if people have a right to another quote that is this is their job a job that has them on how i see it and that's why i've been up to my job because i tried to do it exactly an hour a day by name of the uninsured and i was added up to.
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this is it really was life or grew in mozambique bears the brunt of another giant cycle out. tropical storm kenneth unleashes high winds interventional rains on this beleaguered country destroying homes and pushing thousands of people in the lead just six weeks after psycho needed a submerged and devastated the country also coming up trolls long control lease launch fresh rate as they hunt for suspects behind sunday's to the church and hotel bombings authorities say the suspected ringleader died in one of the attacks.

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