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Family.Andreais now 10 years old andDavid, 7. Andrea loves drawing, doing manual work and researching for her school homework. She continues to learn piano and this year she volunteered to be junior librarian. She is in her second year of Spanish lessons, on top of the Dutch lessons they...
This is a pretty well-worn idea – it’s why outsiders like Van Gogh or dropouts like Gauguin’s work speaks to us more clearly than the academic, tradition-bound art that they grew up with. Anybody on the margins, in whatever sense, of “mainstream society” has to have a working ...
“One Night in Bangkok” by Murray Head or “Would I Lie to You” by Charles & Eddie; and yet, there they are, readily accessible should I wish (I shouldn’t) to hum, whistle or sing them, or just have them play in my head, which I seemingly have little control over. ...
painting. She never dropped the habit once she got into the music industry, and her own artwork appeared on the cover of her albums a number of times, including on 1994'sTurbulent Indigo. It features a self-portrait done by Mitchell, which mimics Vincent Van Gogh'sSelf-Portrait With ...