(1) Forget
(2) Have a good sleep
(3) Talk to a dream friend
(4) Stretch - here and there
(5) Take a warm lavender bath
(6) Listen to slow music
(7) Read and eat chocolate
(8) Dream, and dream more
Saturday, October 13, 2012
How to be happy - quick
(1) Forget
(2) Have a good sleep
(3) Talk to a dream friend
(4) Stretch - here and there
(5) Take a warm lavender bath
(6) Listen to slow music
(7) Read and eat chocolate
(8) Dream, and dream more
Vladimir Volegov paintings
Vladimir began painting at the age of three and his talent would be noted repeatedly throughout his adolescence. Beginning in 1984 Vladimir began participating in, and winning, international competitions for poster art. Vladimir moved to Moscow in 1988 and before long Vladimir’s career in commercial art was in full swing. Notable Russian publishing houses sought his talents to design posters and CD and cassette covers for musical groups. While working with the publishing houses he continued to work on his paintings and participate in exhibitions. In 1990 Vladimir began traveling to Europe where he earned money by painting portraits on the streets of Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna and other European cities. It is with this experience he further honed his skills in depicting the human form. Over the past fourteen years, his art has evolved into the striking figurative work he creates today. Vladimir's vibrant color palette and bold strokes coalesce to create evocative images that possess a timeless sensibility. In February 2004 Vladimir has signed the long-term contract with American publishing house Soho editions.
Crossing Lines
Novel
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje (won the Booker Prize for this novel). The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian-Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa. The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction. The novel was adapted into an award-winning film of the same name in 1996. The narrative is non-linear and the main characters are examined in depth and detail.
Characters
Almásy
Count Ladislaus de Almásy is the title character. He arrives under Hana's care burned beyond recognition. He has a face, but it is unrecognizable and his tags are not present. The only identification they have of him is that he told the Bedouins that he was English. Thus, they call him just the English Patient. Lacking any identification, Almásy serves as a sort of blank canvas onto which the other characters project their wishes. Hana finds in him redemption for not being at her father's side when he died in a similar fashion without anyone to comfort him. Kip finds a friend. The irony in the tale arises in that Almásy is not, in fact, English. Rather, he is Hungarian by birth and has tried to erase all ties to countries throughout his desert explorations.
Because of his complete rejection of nationalism, many of Almásy's actions which would otherwise seem reprehensible are somewhat forgiven. To a man with no nation, it is not wrong to help a German spy across the desert. The German is simply another man. Almásy is portrayed in a sympathetic light. This is partly because Almásy tells his own story, but it is also because Almásy always adheres to his own moral code.
Almásy is also at the center of one of the novel's love stories. He is involved in an adulterous relationship with Katharine Clifton, which eventually leads to her death and the death of her husband, Geoffrey Clifton. Katharine is the figure who leads Almásy to sensuality. He falls in love with her voice as she reads Herodotus. Sensuality—in both the sexual and observational senses—is a major theme to the novel.
Hana
Hana is a twenty-year-old Army nurse. Hana is torn between her youth and her maturity. In a sense, she has lost her childhood too early. A good nurse, she learned quickly that she could not become emotionally attached to her patients. She calls them all "buddy", but immediately detaches from them once they are dead. Her lover, a Canadian officer, is killed. Hana comes to believe she is a curse whose friends inevitably die. Symbolic of her detachment and loss of childhood, she cuts off all of her hair and no longer looks in mirrors after three days of working as a nurse.
In contrast to this detachment, upon hearing of her father's death Hana has an emotional breakdown. Then she puts all of her energy into caring for the English Patient. She washes his wounds and provides him with morphine. When the hospital is abandoned, Hana refuses to leave and instead stays with her patient. She sees Almásy as saintlike and with the "hipbones of Christ". She falls in love with the English Patient in a purely non-sexual way.
The character of Hana is entirely paradoxical. She is mature beyond her years, but she still clings to childlike practices. She plays hopscotch in the Villa and sees the patient as a noble hero who is suffering. She projects her own romanticized images onto the blank slate of the patient, forming a sort of fairytale existence for herself. A strong relationship with sapper, Kip, is also formed during his stay at the villa.
Kip
Kirpal (Kip) Singh is an Indian. Kip was trained to be a sapper officer by Lord Suffolk who also, essentially, made him a part of his family. Kip is, perhaps, the most conflicted character of the novel. His brother is an Indian nationalist and strongly anti-Western. By contrast, Kip willingly joined the British military, but he was met with reservations from his white colleagues. This causes Kip to become somewhat emotionally withdrawn. Kip and Hana become lovers and, through that, Kip begins to regain confidence and a sense of community. He feels welcomed by these westerners, and they all seem to form a group that disregards national origins. They get together and celebrate Hana's 21st birthday, a symbol of their friendship and Kip's acceptance. He leaves and never returns, though later in his life he often thinks of Hana.
Katharine Clifton
Katharine is the wife of Geoffrey Clifton. She has an affair with Almásy which her husband discovers. She is Oxford educated. Almásy falls in love with her as she reads from Almásy's borrowed copy of The Histories around a campfire. Katharine and Clifton met at Oxford. During the context of events told by The English Patient, she had been married to Geoffrey for only a year. The day after they get married, she and Geoffrey fly to the desert to join Almásy's expedition crew. Once the affair begins, she is torn by guilt and eventually breaks off the affair. After Geoffrey kills himself, and they are stuck in the desert, she admits she always loved Almásy.
Movie:
The English Patient movie is based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards. Ondaatje worked closely with the filmmakers. Set before and during World War II, The English Patient is a story of love, fate, misunderstanding and healing.
Plot
The film is set during World War II and depicts a critically burned man (Ralph Fiennes), at first known only as "the English patient," who is being looked after by Hana (Juliette Binoche), a French-Canadian nurse in an abandoned Italian monastery. The patient is reluctant to disclose any personal information but through a series of flashbacks, viewers are allowed into his past. It is slowly revealed that he is in fact a Hungarian cartographer, Count László de Almásy, who was making a map of the Sahara Desert, and whose affair with a married woman, Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), ultimately brought about his present situation. As the patient remembers more, David Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), a Canadian intelligence operative and former thief, arrives at the monastery. Caravaggio lost his thumbs while being interrogated by a German army officer, and he gradually reveals that it was the patient's actions that had brought about his torture. In addition to the patient's story, the film devotes time to Hana and her romance with Kip (Naveen Andrews), an Indian Sikh sapper in the British Army. Due to various events in her past, Hana believes that anyone who comes close to her is likely to die, and Kip's position as a bomb defuser makes their romance full of tension.
1996 Academy Awards
Won, Best Picture (Saul Zaentz)
Won, Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Juliette Binoche
Won, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan)
Won, Best Cinematography (John Seale)
Won, Best Costume Design (Ann Roth)
Won, Best Director (Anthony Minghella)
Won, Best Film Editing (Walter Murch)
Won, Best Original Score (Gabriel Yared)
Won, Best Sound (Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, and Christopher Newman)
Nominated, Best Actor in a Leading Role: Ralph Fiennes
Nominated, Best Actress in a Leading Role: Kristin Scott Thomas
Nominated, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Anthony Minghella)
Chicago Sun Times critic Roger Ebert gave the movie a 4/4 rating, saying "it's the kind of movie you can see twice – first for the questions, the second time for the answers.
Crossing Lines
All the four people in the house were crossing lines: physically, socially or morally.
[[Finished one release and supposed to give self a short vacation, but somehow trapped into WWII and a tragedy :-( . You won't fully understand if you didn't read novel and watch the movie.]]
Characters
Almásy
Count Ladislaus de Almásy is the title character. He arrives under Hana's care burned beyond recognition. He has a face, but it is unrecognizable and his tags are not present. The only identification they have of him is that he told the Bedouins that he was English. Thus, they call him just the English Patient. Lacking any identification, Almásy serves as a sort of blank canvas onto which the other characters project their wishes. Hana finds in him redemption for not being at her father's side when he died in a similar fashion without anyone to comfort him. Kip finds a friend. The irony in the tale arises in that Almásy is not, in fact, English. Rather, he is Hungarian by birth and has tried to erase all ties to countries throughout his desert explorations.
Because of his complete rejection of nationalism, many of Almásy's actions which would otherwise seem reprehensible are somewhat forgiven. To a man with no nation, it is not wrong to help a German spy across the desert. The German is simply another man. Almásy is portrayed in a sympathetic light. This is partly because Almásy tells his own story, but it is also because Almásy always adheres to his own moral code.Almásy is also at the center of one of the novel's love stories. He is involved in an adulterous relationship with Katharine Clifton, which eventually leads to her death and the death of her husband, Geoffrey Clifton. Katharine is the figure who leads Almásy to sensuality. He falls in love with her voice as she reads Herodotus. Sensuality—in both the sexual and observational senses—is a major theme to the novel.
Hana
Hana is a twenty-year-old Army nurse. Hana is torn between her youth and her maturity. In a sense, she has lost her childhood too early. A good nurse, she learned quickly that she could not become emotionally attached to her patients. She calls them all "buddy", but immediately detaches from them once they are dead. Her lover, a Canadian officer, is killed. Hana comes to believe she is a curse whose friends inevitably die. Symbolic of her detachment and loss of childhood, she cuts off all of her hair and no longer looks in mirrors after three days of working as a nurse.In contrast to this detachment, upon hearing of her father's death Hana has an emotional breakdown. Then she puts all of her energy into caring for the English Patient. She washes his wounds and provides him with morphine. When the hospital is abandoned, Hana refuses to leave and instead stays with her patient. She sees Almásy as saintlike and with the "hipbones of Christ". She falls in love with the English Patient in a purely non-sexual way.
The character of Hana is entirely paradoxical. She is mature beyond her years, but she still clings to childlike practices. She plays hopscotch in the Villa and sees the patient as a noble hero who is suffering. She projects her own romanticized images onto the blank slate of the patient, forming a sort of fairytale existence for herself. A strong relationship with sapper, Kip, is also formed during his stay at the villa.
Kip
Katharine Clifton
Katharine is the wife of Geoffrey Clifton. She has an affair with Almásy which her husband discovers. She is Oxford educated. Almásy falls in love with her as she reads from Almásy's borrowed copy of The Histories around a campfire. Katharine and Clifton met at Oxford. During the context of events told by The English Patient, she had been married to Geoffrey for only a year. The day after they get married, she and Geoffrey fly to the desert to join Almásy's expedition crew. Once the affair begins, she is torn by guilt and eventually breaks off the affair. After Geoffrey kills himself, and they are stuck in the desert, she admits she always loved Almásy.Movie:
The English Patient movie is based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards. Ondaatje worked closely with the filmmakers. Set before and during World War II, The English Patient is a story of love, fate, misunderstanding and healing.
Plot
The film is set during World War II and depicts a critically burned man (Ralph Fiennes), at first known only as "the English patient," who is being looked after by Hana (Juliette Binoche), a French-Canadian nurse in an abandoned Italian monastery. The patient is reluctant to disclose any personal information but through a series of flashbacks, viewers are allowed into his past. It is slowly revealed that he is in fact a Hungarian cartographer, Count László de Almásy, who was making a map of the Sahara Desert, and whose affair with a married woman, Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), ultimately brought about his present situation. As the patient remembers more, David Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), a Canadian intelligence operative and former thief, arrives at the monastery. Caravaggio lost his thumbs while being interrogated by a German army officer, and he gradually reveals that it was the patient's actions that had brought about his torture. In addition to the patient's story, the film devotes time to Hana and her romance with Kip (Naveen Andrews), an Indian Sikh sapper in the British Army. Due to various events in her past, Hana believes that anyone who comes close to her is likely to die, and Kip's position as a bomb defuser makes their romance full of tension.1996 Academy Awards
Won, Best Picture (Saul Zaentz)
Won, Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Juliette Binoche
Won, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan)
Won, Best Cinematography (John Seale)
Won, Best Costume Design (Ann Roth)
Won, Best Director (Anthony Minghella)
Won, Best Film Editing (Walter Murch)
Won, Best Original Score (Gabriel Yared)
Won, Best Sound (Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, and Christopher Newman)
Nominated, Best Actor in a Leading Role: Ralph Fiennes
Nominated, Best Actress in a Leading Role: Kristin Scott Thomas
Nominated, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Anthony Minghella)
Chicago Sun Times critic Roger Ebert gave the movie a 4/4 rating, saying "it's the kind of movie you can see twice – first for the questions, the second time for the answers.
Crossing Lines
All the four people in the house were crossing lines: physically, socially or morally.
[[Finished one release and supposed to give self a short vacation, but somehow trapped into WWII and a tragedy :-( . You won't fully understand if you didn't read novel and watch the movie.]]
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Blue In Bloom
This charming Blue in Bloom collection (designed by Andrea by Sadek company) are inspired by ornamentation (blue flowers, leaves, and birds) on British Delftware. The original designs decorated a medley of vases, flower bricks, tulip pots, and desert dishes in Colonial Williamsburg's collection of 18-centry ceramics. Some, like the five-finger vases or the flower bricks, echo their antique counterparts. For others, the antique's function has been updated, as when a teapot stand shape is re-imagined as a wine coaster. Blue and white "china" and "delft" has been favorites in American dinning and decoration for more than 300 years.
WILLIAMSBURG kicks off its 2010 collections at the January gift markets under the banner “WILLIAMSBURG: Story and Style.”
The natural wonders celebrated in the 18th century-- glorious botanical images, luscious textiles, hand-crafted ceramics,
and more—inspire products that infuse today’s style with the rich stories of America’s design heritage.
The designer brand, Andrea by Sadek, received the “Took the Ball and Ran with It” Award for development of the Blue in Bloom Collection. The collection of floral containers and gifts, characterized by America’s 300-year interest in blue and white china, features striking flowers, leaves and birds from British delftware.
Here are what I got at the Williamsburg Marketplace this summer.
Blue In Bloom Porcelain Leaf Dish - Cost: $6. (It costs $18 for one piece on eBay)
If you purchase those from internet (e.g. eBay), the price can be easily more than tripled.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Paris: A Rainy Day
Caillebotte's interest in photography is evident from the painting. The figures in the foreground appear slightly "out of focus", those in the mid-distance (the carriage and the pedestrians in the middle of the intersection) have sharp edges, while the features in the background becomes progressively indistinct. The severe cropping of some figures further suggests the influence.
The point-focus of the image highlights the dimensions and draws the viewer's eye to the vantage point at the center of the buildings in the background. The figures appear to have walked into the painting, as though Caillbotte was taking a snapshot of people casually going about their day, hiding the fact that he spent months carefully placing his figures within the pictorial space.
This painting can be seen at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris (September 25, 2012–January 20, 2013), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (February 26–May 27, 2013), and the Art Institute of Chicago (June 26–September 22, 2013).
In his masterpiece, Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte brought an unusual monumentality and compositional control to a typical Impressionist subject, the new boulevards that were changing the Paris cityscape. The result is at once real and contrived, casual and choreographed. With its curiously detached figures, the canvas depicts the anonymity that the boulevards seemed to create. By the time it appeared in the third Impressionist exhibition, held in April 1877, the artist was 29 years old, a man of considerable wealth, and not only the youngest but also the most active member of the Impressionist group. He contributed six of his own canvases to the exhibition; played a leading part in its funding, organization, promotion, and installation; and lent a number of paintings by his colleagues that he owned.
About the Artist: Gustave Caillebotte (1848-94) was born into an upper-crust Parisian family who had made their fortune in textiles. Caillebotte was a lawyer, but after receiving a large inheritance, he decided to pursue painting and horticulture. He enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet, of whom he later became a patron. He organized group impressionist shows including one in Paris in 1877, which featured his own Paris Street; Rainy Day.
How the painting got to Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago bought it in 1964 for an undisclosed price. The purchase was brilliant and bold, says Gloria Groom, the Art Institute's curator of 19th-century European painting, because the world had not yet recognized Caillebotte's talent. In 1995, the painting was the signature piece at a French retrospective of Caillebotte. It remains one of the few Caillebottes in any public collection; most of the artist's work is privately owned by his family.
TODO -
- Go to Art Institute of Chicago (may be next summer between June 26 - September 2013.), if I can find a resort in our vacation network near that place.
- Go to North France to find the Place de Dublin, an intersection near the Gare Saint-Lazare, a railroad station in north Paris (may be 2015)
- Start oil painting of this one (may be next month :-))) - how to get the wet feel of rain?)
Seed
There are situations you happen to love someone who doesn't love you back. You are handsome, smart, and honest. Why that person can not love or even like you back no matter how hard you tried to please her/him?
There are situations you happen to have less/no feeling for someone who loves you. She/He is good looking and has nice personality, why you just can not have strong romantic feeling towards her/him even you thought you should and tried?
You ARE the source of love seeds. If you have the love seed for someone, the love will grow into lovely rose as time passing by. If other person has the love seed for you, he/she will gradually love you more and more as time passing by. If the person doesn't have the love seed, no matter how hard you tried to make him/her happy, there won't be any rose anytime in the future. There is no love seed. He/she could be good friends in your life, but just not that special one who lives in your heart. You love yourself better through loving others.
Have plenty love seeds for others. Accept both good and bad sides of them. Forget and forgive. You will love more people. Some day, you find that special person who loves you dearly the same way as you do. You will be in the happy cloud, and live happily ever after. :-))))
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Something Greek
Here are some items (below) I enjoyed (yummy :-)) at 2012 Annual Greek Festival at St Theodore Greek Orthodox Church (our neighbor in greenbelt) last Thursday:
Moussaka - Sliced eggplant and potatoes baked with ground beef and tomato sauce, covered with creamy béchamel sauce and topped with cheese.
Dolmades - Grape leaves stuffed with ground beef, rice and herbs and topped with a creamy lemon-egg sauce
Spanakopita - Lightly buttered fillo dough stuffed with spinach and feta cheese, baked to a golden brown
Tiropita - Lightly buttered fillo dough stuffed with a blend of Greek cheese, baked to a golden brown finish
I like Spanakopita which is similar to the one that I can make myself (learned from my Turkish roommate long time ago). I also liked the Moussaka. The Greek dessert are pretty sweet. I tried them before. It is very nice to try different food together with good friends.
Greece is always mysterious to me because those Greek mythology books read before. My impression is: Greek people are beautiful (like Jennifer Aniston, Rita Wilson, Yanni). One of our co-workers is also a Greek and she is very beautiful.
Here are some handy phrases ...
Good morning - Kalime'ra
Good evening - Kalispe'ra
Good night - Kalini'chta
Hello/Goodbye - Yia'sou
Goodbye - Anti'o (also Yia'sou)
Cheers - Yia'sou
I would like - The'lo
Please - Parakalo'
Thank you - Efharisto'
How are you - Ti'Ka'nis
See you again - Tha'se tho'ksana
Let's go - Pa'me
Do you speak English - Mila'te Angklika'
Il Mare & Lake House
Il Mare is a 2000 South Korean film, starring Jun Ji-hyun and Lee
Jung-jae. The title, Il Mare, means "The Sea" in Italian, and is the
name of the seaside house which is the setting of the story. The Korean
title means "time-transcending love". The two protagonists both live
there two years apart in time, but are able to communicate through a
mysterious post box. The setting for the movie was shot on Ganghwa
Island's Sukmodo, and Jeju Island's Udo.The actress, Jeong Ji-hyun (全智賢) (born 30 October 1981), is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her role as "The Girl" in the romantic comedy My Sassy Girl (2001), one of the highest grossing Korean comedies of all time. Other notable films include Il Mare (2000) and Windstruck (2004). She is a very cute and smart girl.
This film reunites Reeves and Bullock for the first time in a film since they co-starred in Speed in 1994. The film is set and filmed in the Chicago area. The lake house itself was built on what is called Maple Lake, located within the Maple Lake Forest Preserve off of 95th Street in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. After filming the house was later removed and a simple fishing dock was put in its place.
Plot:
In 2006, Dr. Kate Forster is leaving a lake house that she has been renting in suburban Wisconsin to move to Chicago. Kate leaves a note in the mailbox for the next tenant to forward her letters should some slip through the system, further adding that the paint-embedded paw prints on the walkway leading into the house were already there when she arrived.
Two years earlier, in 2004, Alex Wyler, an architect, arrives at the lake house and finds Kate's letter in the mailbox. The house is neglected, with no sign of paw prints anywhere. As Alex restores the house, a dog runs through his paint and leaves fresh paw prints right where Kate said they would be. Both Alex and Kate continue passing messages to each other via the mailbox, and each watch its flag go up and down as the message leaves and the reply arrives, which takes place as they wait at the mailbox. They cautiously look around each time the flag changes, hoping to somehow spot the other, but in vain they do not, as they are alone at the mailbox.Baffled, Alex writes back, asking how Kate knew about the pawprints since the house was unoccupied before he arrived. An equally perplexed Kate writes back, and she and Alex discover that they are living exactly two years apart. Their correspondence takes them through several events, including Alex finding a book, Persuasion, at a train station where Kate said she had lost it, and Alex taking Kate on a walking tour of his favorite places in Chicago via an annotated map that he leaves in the mailbox. Alex and Kate eventually meet at a party, but he doesn't mention their letter relationship to her.
As Alex and Kate continue to write each other, they decide to try to meet again. Alex makes a reservation at Il Mare (Italian for "The Sea"), a restaurant whose name is a homage to the original Korean motion picture, for around March 2006 — two years in Alex's future, but only a day away for Kate. Kate goes to the restaurant but Alex fails to show. Heartbroken, Kate asks Alex not to write her again, recounting a tragedy a year ago before, on Valentine's Day 2006, when she witnessed a traffic accident near Daley Plaza and held a man who died in her arms. Both Alex and Kate leave the lake house, continuing on with their separate lives.
A year later, on Valentine's Day 2006 for Alex, Valentine's Day 2008 for Kate, Alex returns to the lake house after something about the day triggers his memory. Meanwhile, Kate goes to an architect to review renovation plans for a house she wants to buy. She notices a drawing of the lake house on the conference room wall and learns that Alex Wyler — the same person with whom she'd been corresponding — had drawn it. She also learns that Alex was killed in a traffic accident exactly two years ago to the day and realizes why he never showed up for their date; he was the man who died in Daley Plaza.
Rushing to the lake house, Kate writes a letter telling Alex she loves him, but begs him not to try to find her if he loves her back. Wait two years, she says, and come to the lake house instead. Meanwhile Alex has gone to Daley Plaza to find Kate.
At the lake house, Kate sobs, clutching onto the mailbox stand, sure she was too late, but then the mailbox flag lowers; Alex has picked up her note. Soon, she sees a vehicle arriving and then a figure walking toward her. It is Alex. They walk toward each other. Kate says, "You waited!" She and Alex kiss, then walk toward the lake house.
Untouchable Lovers
The movie title was translated into "Untouchable Lovers". I like both Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. The Korea girl is also liked because of her other movies. One sweet friend of mine has a collection of her movies. It will be really nice to watch it again in a quiet evening imaging self crossing the time. Are you untouchable and remote?
Sunday, September 23, 2012
European Shorthair
Over the years since the breed was established, it has become less cobby than the British type, with a slightly longer and less heavily jowled face, perhaps reflecting the typical feline type of warmer mainland European countries more than it did in the past.
It has many of the same basic traits as the British cats, however, being strong and hardy with an all-weather coat. Its personality tends to be calm and affectionate, and it is a relatively quiet breed.
BREED HISTORY
Until 1982, European Shorthairs were classified with British Shorthairs. The European Shorthair does not seem to have caught the imagination of breeders, and remains rare.
The breed is now being selectively bred, with no British Shorthair crosses permitted in the pedigree. It is not recognized by GCCF or major breed a registries outside Europe.
Head
Triangular to rounded, with well-defined muzzle
Neck
Muscular
Eyes
Large, round, and well-spaced, with colors to math coat
Ears
Medium-sized and upright, with rounded tips
Body
Medium to large, well-muscled, but cobby
Coat
Short and dense, standing away from body
Legs
Medium-length and well muscled
Tail
Medium-length, thick at base, tapering to rounded up
Silver Mackerel Tabby
The European Shorthair is bred in the three "'traditional" tabby patterns of classic, mackerel, and spotted. The silver tabby is popular because of the vibrantly contrasting colors in its coat. The markings should be symmetrical on both sides of the body.
Key Facts
DATE OF ORIGIN 1982
PLACE OF ORIGIN European mainland
ANCESTRY Household cats, British Shorthairs
WEIGHT RANGE 8-15 lb (3.5-7 kg)
TABBY COLORS (CLASSIC, MACKEREL, SPOTTED)
Brown, Blue, Red, Cream, Tortie, Blue Tortie
Temperament
This
breed is very affectionate and loving, and likes to be around humans. They are
also easygoing and very tolerant toward children, dogs and other animals.
Because of their intelligence, alertness and agility, they are excellent
hunters and also very independent.
Do you think you look like that? Maybe in previous life, you were a silver tabby cat? :-))))
Art Lesson
C2 agreed to continue art lessons as long as C1 is the
accompany student. C2 wanted to become an animator and win Oscar some day when
she grows up. So she should have this art training for that dream to come true
;-))
The first lesson, C2 started her very first oil painting
piece: a white cat with a remote control. C1 ended up with a sketch of still
life: a glass vase of flowers although she wanted to draw a cat too. They were
happy at their first lesson.
The second is not so easy. C1 chose to draw her own cat in
sketch: a pair of European Silver Tabbies displaying well-defined “necklaces”
and well-spaced leg rings. It was frustrating as there were too many
distracting details on this pretty creature. The thinner one looked fatter and
the fatter one looked like a bat. Sigh.
C2 continued to add colors to her cat, with red background,
brown tables, grey remote control, and suspicious crippled legs. The cat is
supposed to look like a couch potato. C2 gave up coloring as she got frustrated
too having trouble in figuring out the shade technique. Sigh.
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