Henri Matisse
He was born on December 31st, 1869 in France. He was the oldest son of a prosperous grain merchant. In 1887 he went to Paris to study Law, working as a court administrator after earning his qualification or degree. He began painting in 1889 after his mom bought him art supplies and then he discovered "a kind of paradise", deeply disappointing his father he decided to become an artist. Matisse, Picasso and Duchamp are known for revolutionary developments in the plastic arts specially in painting and sculpture.  His mastery of colors and drawing made him gain respect in the modern art world.

Green Stripe
Is a portrait of Madame Matisse and it was created in 1905.

This painting is revolutionary because of the way it is portrayed and the bold use of colors. One side is darker than the other and affects the drawing too making it lighter on one side and darker on the other side. The part that s darker has a lighter background and the part that s lighter has a darker background. I like the way colors were being used in the background contrasting with the colors in the painting of the woman itself. The way the woman is drawn is also important because it shows that things don't have to look how we see them with our eyes but that everyone has a different view of the world and that s very admirable too. Nihilism dictate what we had to do and the only way out was destroying it and starting from zero all over again new. Therefore all the paintings from that time show that a way of breaking rules, of seeing the world in  a different way. We no longer have to follow the masses and what the media, government says. We can be unique and that s okay. This relates to now because like I said in the Dada manifesto part we are in times where our goal to be so unique and individual is very control by what others think. The mass media is the  internet and everyone is on it we are trying too hard, we should just be honest with ourselves and let things be.

"Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlement, is a public concern of the first importance."

Hugo Ball

This quote stood out for me because it makes me think that it is true we are being dictated and to an extent sort of controlled in our societies, by the media, by technology by many things, authenticity seems lost, hypocrisy is high. Everyone is pretending, everyone is trying to be an attention whore, famous for one day, getting a youtube video with many views, having most amounts of like on pictures on instagram, getting the most amount of comments on your status on facebook. Is so annoying why cant we just be whatever we want to be without worrying so much about what others might think about us.   

Germany's Economy 

It is the fifth largest in the world and it is the strongest one in Europe. It produces machinery, vehicles, chemicals and household equipment. It s working force is highly skilled. Some of the challenges it faces are the low fertility rates and declining immigration which they are trying to restructure. Germany is trying to close all of their nuclear plants by 2022. Germany hopes to replace this nuclear power with renewable energies, the reason why they want to close all of the nuclear plants is due to what happened in Fukushima.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$3.227 trillion (2013 est.) country comparison to the world:  5 $3.211 trillion (2012 est.) $3.182 trillion (2011 est.) note: data are in 2013 US dollars taken from the CIA world factbook

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave - a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. -And we- we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.108, Walter Kaufmann transl.

This quote is about religion Buddha and God and the significance of their lives that even after their deaths they were still significant. The fact that he describes this as shadows shows that they are not important today or at least shouldn't be important. They were just two beings but this also shows that people need to believe in something, have some kind of faith, of hope that will liberate them from their suffering I believe people still have faith for a reason.

It applies today because there is always this debate that religions are obsolete that they no longer serve a purpose that they are unimportant but if there are still people having faith I say let them be. It is none of my business to impose myself on others. 

The part that says that God is death is very cold and causes a deep impression I remember the first time I read that quote and I still remember until today how I felt about it. Just to think or say that the almighty and inmortal God could be like us and just dissappear be a mortal too causes me an emptiness in my stomach that  is hard to describe. We are always holding unto something and God is one of those beings that we are always relying on instead of ourselves I wonder for how long more will he be death.